enlightened conflict update
So. After about a month of high tech fanoodling I believe we have worked out all the kinks on the site. If anyone runs into any issues as they delve into my unenlightened ramblings please drop me a note and we will address. Thanks for your patience.
Some updates (because some people have asked and I have received some great suggestions):
1. Music. No. We have not posted any music thoughts for awhile. I have over 20 written (some may be outdated by now) but the guy who was awesome at posting all those posts with the links and videos and stuff has been on a sabbatical. When he gets back we will discuss what we are going to do from here on out with the music posts. I have received a bunch of notes asking about them and how much you enjoy laughing at my musical tastes and we will see what we can do. Plus. With lala.com shutting down we lost a great easy source for sound clips so people could actually hear what I was writing about (assuming you had never heard of whatever wackjob band I had found that day to write about).
2. Business or Advertising posts. Well. We should be starting more of those back up soon. My video link skills are not particularly good (but improving) which coincided with the guy who is really good at video linking going on sabbatical as well as then we had some technical site difficulties. But I have improved my skills and the site seems fixed so more of those type posts will appear.
3. Requests. I have received some topic requests and those posts should start appearing soon. While I cannot guarantee I can write to a requested topic I do like to receive request. at minimum they make me think.
4. We are going to be building a new companion site called ProjectGlobalGeneration.
Actually www.projectglobalgeneration.com.
I will post something when we launch it. That site will be solely focused on my wacky global generation children’s education initiative idea. Several people have expressed inters in the idea (and they don’t seem that wacky). I wanted to make it easier to see the idea an all the information as well as a place to house all future writings.
Thanks to everyone. hope you enjoy and keep on enjoying. I am having a blast (if that matters).
Bruce.
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contemporary dance music (sort of)
February 10, 2012 - 9:44 am
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Well. I have always loved good dance music. Club, house, electronica … not sure what you call it but something with a good hook (it could just be smooth refrain or a looped backbeat) with a slightly below frenetic pace but fast enough beat that it gets the heart pumping and you drive a little [...]
here an insight, there an insight, where an insight?
February 9, 2012 - 7:22 am
Tags: actions today make who i am tomorrow, affecting people’s conflict behavior, aligning generational attitude and technology and consumer trends, broadcast, building character, business, Business Thoughts, change begins in the head, change forces prioritizing, change takes remarkable effort, character, communication, conflict and people, content dissemination trends, conversations, creating the next generation of thinkers, creating the next generation of thinkers using the web, crowd clout, crowds providing unsolicited feedback, curiosity is the enemy of ignorance, decision making, developing cross cultural skills, developing minds of next generation of thinkers, developing social and emotional competencies, discovery, dreaming is not just for kids, education to enlighten, encouraging curiosity, encouraging understanding of choices, enlightened conflict, exploration not ROI, facebook, failure of imagination, finding what is possible from impossible, finding your way is tough, freedom of choice, generation of measurement, generational ideation, generations, global collaboration, global respect, Hubble, ignorance, ignorance is the enemy, imagination, influencers are still influencers, influencing purchases, insights, insights are about truth, insights don't exploit, it has become uncool to do simple things in business, leadership, learning, lessons, life, life is a winding road, life lessons, making the simple complicated, marketing, maslow and marketing, maslow needs, measuring exclusion from primary education, measuring generational attitudes, measuring generational behavior, measuring global education, meeting the challenges of concentration, more honest online, most people cannot recognize simple solutions, most things in life are not black or white, mtv europe awards, NASA, NASA budget shrinking, net enabled education, no one believes in simplicity anymore, online friends, only few find the way, organizations, predictions, project global generation, pursuing the way, quality versus quantity online, quotes, rare to make complicated simple, research, respect, respect for individual choice, responsibility, ROI versus imagination, self actualization, short term concentration capabilities, simplicity has gone the way of the dodo, simplicity takes remarkable effort, six impossible things before breakfast, social media, strategy, strength of character to make change, strip away the undoable and identify the doable, Stuff I Like, success of ROI, telling the truth, that i will be tomorrow, there are a lot of insights, thinking, thinking impossible things, thinking is good, this i am today, to slay a dragon you need to believe in dragons, trendwatching, truth, truth in marketing, truth should be simple, Twitter, twitter triumph of humanity, use your imagination, web based global education
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So. Every once in awhile in the ad/marketing business we talk about “what’s the insight that will help us create the big idea?” Ok. Not every once in awhile. Actually ad nausea. So often your head hurts. In fact it may be the reason why people in the industry drink as often as they do. [...]
sauced
February 8, 2012 - 8:43 am
Tags: am i missing something, being sauced, driving and drinking, enlightening people on what not to do, hot sauced words poetry, license plate announcing you are drunk, stupid vanity license plates, truth, urban dictionary great source for slang, urban dictionary sauced, vanity license plates, words
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So. Urban dictionary should be bookmarked by everyone. It is a priceless source for priceless sayings (and insures us old folk can keep track of the new folk slang). Why do I bring up the Urban Dictionary? Well. Knowshon Moreno (Denver Broncos running back and proud University of Georgia Bulldog graduate) gets pulled over for [...]
rome & atlanta have something in common
February 8, 2012 - 8:43 am
Tags: atlanta snowstorms, cities with no snowplows, do your own shoveling, enlightened conflict, freak snowstorms, giving shovels away, life lessons, making the vatican envious, no snowplows, olymipic torch, rome italy and atlanta, shoveling snow, snow in rome, Stuff I Like, words
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So. Whoda thunk Rome and Atlanta would have something in common. Not a Bernini statue (although Atlanta has a rusting Olympic torch). Not a square… albeit it is really a circle <St. Peters> (although Atlanta has a dome that would make the Vatican envious). Nope. Snowplows. Neither of them has any snowplows. This week Rome [...]
friends, feedback, influencing & a new economy
February 7, 2012 - 8:37 am
Tags: a generation of concerned citizens, a net education platform, actions today make who i am tomorrow, affecting people’s conflict behavior, aligning generational attitude and technology and consumer trends, broadcast, building character, business, Business Thoughts, careful tweeting, change begins in the head, change takes remarkable effort, character, children and critical thinking, children out of school, children’s education, communication, community individualism, conflict and people, content dissemination trends, conversations, creating innovation attitude in children, creating the next generation of thinkers, creating the next generation of thinkers using the web, crowd clout, crowds providing unsolicited feedback, curiosity is the enemy of ignorance, decision making, developing cross cultural skills, developing minds of next generation of thinkers, developing social and emotional competencies, educating using the net, education to enlighten, effective teaching globally, encouraging curiosity, encouraging understanding of choices, enlightened conflict, facebook, freedom of choice, generation after millennials, generational ideation, generations, global collaboration, Global generation, global generation sociological platform, global respect, ignorance, ignorance is the enemy, influencers are still influencers, influencing purchases, leadership, learning, lessons, life, life lessons, marketing, mass mingling impact on Global Generation, measuring exclusion from primary education, measuring generational attitudes, measuring generational behavior, measuring global education, media, meeting the challenges of concentration, mobile technology impacting education, more honest online, mtv europe awards, net enabled education, new economic model, nietzsche, online friends, online has quality communication, peace on facebook, pop up schools, predictions, project global generation, quality versus quantity online, redefining children’s education with a global initiative, research, respect, respect for individual choice, responsibility, short term concentration capabilities, social media, strategy, strength of character to make change, Stuff I Like, that i will be tomorrow, the economist e-communication and society, the f-factor, this i am today, trendwatching, truth, Twitter, twitter triumph of humanity, using cell technology for education, web based global education
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So. My thoughts on this topic were inspired by a trendwatching’s briefing called “The F-Factor.” Their briefing (another excellent one by the way) discusses focuses how the impact of influencers’ on purchasing has increased because of the web (and the dynamics associated with the web). By the way. Trendwatching has another excellent briefing called Crowd [...]
survival
February 6, 2012 - 8:29 am
Tags: a full life, actions today make who i am tomorrow, architects of fate, be who you are, business, change begins in the head, change forces prioritizing, change takes remarkable effort, changing objectives to make change, character, choices, choices leading to full life, choices we make or do not make, communication, creation means destroying something, decision making, destroying the personal baggage you carry, every one is an architect of life, every one plays a role in fate, fear, fear of choices, gain some new identity aspects, generations, getting a new start means destroying some old things, good people, hope, identifying who you are, inaction, intentions, just this once, lacking hope, learning, lessons, letting go is difficult, letting go is not simple, lies, life, life lessons, making changes personally, making choices, managing perceptions, motivated by a desire to achieve, ordinary people don’t think they are remarkable, organizations, personal creative destruction, quotations, quotes, relationships, resiliency, resiliency and character, respect, responsibility, see your own reality, self truth, smallest actions contribute, strategy, strength of character to make change, Stuff I Like, that i will be tomorrow, there is no formula for good choices, this i am today, trust, truth, trying to preserve will lead to stagnation, words
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“it is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin I love this quote. Mostly because those with ‘brawn’ scoff at those with ‘brains’, and vice versa, when survival (and that doesn’t have to mean life & death but rather success [...]
let the din of battle begin
February 5, 2012 - 8:19 am
Tags: actions today make who i am tomorrow, architects of fate, awaiting glory in silence, being in the battle, brady and stillness, character, competitiveness, flat wave brain stillness, gathering adrenaline but still, imaging the brain for the moment before the moment, leadership, let the din of battle begin, maybe it is me moment, more aware of yourself, pooh and Brady, quotations, quotes, resetting the brain, respect, responsibility, stillness in leadership, Stuff I Like, super bowl stillness, that i will be tomorrow, the moment before the moment, there was a moment just before, this i am today, thriving in the moment, tom brady, truth
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“We await glory in silence, oh, let the din of battle begin” – A midshipman on Collingwood’s flagship wrote this in his diary as his ship sailed into battle at Trafalgar Tom Brady (yup … this is about him – in honor of the super bowl – and I am going to use this quote). [...]
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February 4, 2012 - 12:38 pm
Tags: 8th biggest beer day, america has lost its beers, american beer, american beer connoisseurs, beer, beer and bonding, beer is good, brand, Bud isn't american, budweiser, business, Business Thoughts, champagne of beer, coors, learning, life, life lessons, no high falutin micro brews, Stuff I Like, super bowl beer tradition, the character of beer, truth, unamerican beer
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Ok. This is about the American tradition (the super bowl) and an un-American aspect (the fact there just aren’t that many American beers left). The super bowl (according to Nielsen sales studies) is the 8th biggest beer day of the year. It is behind the 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Christmas/New [...]
wonder of birds
February 3, 2012 - 8:43 am
Tags: addictive songs, bright as yellow, fragile music, fragile voice, great listening music, husband and wife musicians, karen peris, life lessons, music, songs that are nice to listen to, Stuff I Like, the innocence mission, wistful alt pop music, wistful storyteller, wonder of birds, write songs like conversations
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So. I just heard another song and it made me think about “couples bands” … like Over the Rhine or Weepies (a post to follow on their new cd) … and going back maybe K’s Choice (brother & sister) … but the song I heard made me want to spend a minute talking about the [...]
my thoughts on education inspired by The Wire
February 1, 2012 - 8:06 am
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So. Every time I walk into a high school I have a feeling that education … well … that it could be better. For everyone. Teachers & all kids (no matter their socioeconomic status or whether they live in an urban or rural environment). Shit. Not could … that it should be better. And I [...]
