November 2011
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3 Small Steps to Cause a Customer Experience...
A client of mine (@codybakken) wrote this article for his blog this past summer. I’m involved with the non-profit and political sector here in town, so this really caused me to start thinking more closely about being more strategic when designing a team or program that will grow and not stagnate. Great feedback on a great book. Thanks, Cody.
I recently re-read the The Tipping Point by...
July 2011
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May 2011
2 posts
The Buckeyes
Fire the whole team. Invite the gestapo to start observing practices. Everyone lives in community housing. That fixes the problem. #thatisall
April 2011
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February 2011
3 posts
The Wussy Boy Manifesto
my name is “Nate” and i am a wussy boy. itʼs taken me a long time to admit it… i remember shouting in high school, “no, dad, iʼm not gay! iʼm just… sensitive. i tried to like hot rods and jet planes and football and budweiser poster girls, but i never got the hang of it! i donʼt know whatʼs wrong with me…” then, i saw him, there on the silver screen, bigger than life...
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January 2011
5 posts
“I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where...”
– — Lil Wayne, talks about his reading material while serving his prison sentence last year. Wayne also mentions that he enjoyed Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis’ memoir Scar Tissue. (Via Rolling Stone)
This Scares Me. A lot. They'll start RF coding my...
Obama administration moves forward with unique internet ID for all Americans, Commerce Department to head system up
By Laura June posted Jan 9th 2011 1:34PM President Obama has signaled that he will give the United States Commerce Department the authorityover a proposed national cybersecurity measure that would involve giving each American a unique online identity. Other candidates...
December 2010
3 posts
November 2010
7 posts
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In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of...
Re-posted from ZeroHedge.com here
Tonight’s stunning financial piece de resistance comes from Wyatt Emerich of The Cleveland Current. In what is sure to inspire some serious ire among all those who once believed Ronald Reagan that it was the USSR that was the “Evil Empire”, Emmerich analyzes disposable income and economic benefits among several key income classes and comes to...
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Truths for Mature Humans
(via izsmile)
Housewives of God →
Graph Of When People Break Up On Facebook
By Dan Hopper
David McCandless recently gave a presentation about data visualization in which he unveiled this graph, which tracked 10,000 Facebook status updates to determine precisely when people in relationships broke up.
The results look like this:
Note the huge surges around Spring Break, the beginning of Summer, and two weeks before Christmas, as well as the sharp decline on Christmas...
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Dr. Franklin and Daylight Saving Time
*This is cross posted from the Boston 1775 blog. I think it’s relevant for current discussions going on in Indiana today about Daylight Savings Time. My position on this issue has always been relatively simple: instead of trying to get everyone on the same time, can’t we just all come to grips with the fact that not everyone is on the same time?
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Some proud American...
October 2010
15 posts
WatchDon’t let the door hit you on your elitist ass on the way out
“I don’t think I made any indications that I was injured, other than...”
– Brett Farce
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Privacy Warning
I had two bad run-in’s with two different websites and their privacy controls yesterday. What’s worse, these sites and their companies have been engaging in a privacy war over the past 9 months with each trying to outdo the other in proving their privacy bona fides. Without revealing too much detail, here were the culprits:
Facebook
Despite highly touting their new privacy controls, I...
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“You said my card was declined but you charged me 8 times for the laptop I was...”
– Customer Next to Me at Best Buy
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Cracking the Facebook Code
How does the social media giant decide who and what to put in your feed? Tom Weber conducts a one-month experiment to break the algorithm, discovering 10 of Facebook’s biggest secrets.
Cracking the Facebook Code by Thomas E. Weber October 18, 2010 | 6:57am
The more digital our daily lives become, the more perplexing the questions seem. Will the...
ManIndyArena | Entrepreneurship in Indianapolis:... →
In 2008, a partner of mine and I briefly looked into commoditizing (sp?) meeting space. The thought was simple: graduate students, small business people, and philanthropists don’t have a defined space. For example, when you have a meeting with representatives from the IU Medical Center, you meet at their facilities on the IUPUI campus. On the other hand, if you have a meeting with...
Pathos Matters
Every Tuesday at 7am, I meet with members of the IUPUI Speech and Debate team to practice and coach with them. Speech and Debate (also called ‘Forensics’) is an activity designed to give students at the high school and college level the opportunity to utilize skills in persuasion and communication to support an argument of some kind. Whether its done through a Poetry program, a Persuasive...
I’m Calling to Approve a Higher Credit Limit on My...
Democrats in Washington are voting to raise the debt ceiling by $1.8 Trillion (read more here), which should be a big deal but really isn’t. The debt ceiling has been raised almost yearly for decades. It is simultaneously the most boring event happening in Washington and the most important. True to form, if it’s not sexy, it gets no play with the news media or with the American people, who...
In Re: Moral Failings and Public Policy
This is a written response to Doug Masson at www.masson.us and his recent blog entitled “Moral Failings and Public Policy. He said:
One thing I have concluded is that I believe in the value of personal responsibility but I am suspicious when the need for personal responsibility is cited in policy discussions. When “personal responsibility” comes up in policy discussions, all too often it’s a ...
The Middle Class Does Get Screwed…and Other...
I received the following note from a concerned reader; we’ll call her Jane. She wrote as a response to my recent series on Child Support, Enforcement and Poverty:
I just got done reading Nate’s blog, My question is yes, Single parenthood sucks, I’ve seen how it effects people first hand but you are at least able to get child support of some sort. The government has a hand in this. But...
The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. This is the end all for progressive politics in America. We have scarce supply of goods and services for unlimited demand of those same services. Some states in our country (the most liberal ones at that), felt it was their duty to provide for the everyday New Yorker, Californian, and New Jersey’an. Other states...
U.S. Leads With Attack Traffic, Not Broadband... →
Every quarter, content delivery network Akamai delivers a State of the Internet report looking at the Internet in terms of traffic, speed and connectivity. The latest report shows that the rest of the world is continuing to outrun the U.S. in terms of speed, while the U.S. becomes the leading source of “attack traffic” worldwide.
“Hey, maybe you haven’t been keeping up on current events, but we just got our...”
– Aliens, 1986