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Take Away The Cookies

Posted in Advocacy, Financial, New Economy, tagged , , , , , on April 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m a mother of a 3 year old girl. Left to her own devices, my daughter would eat cookies all day long. The reason she doesn’t is because I don’t let her. She needs someone to control her impulse to devour the cookies in the cookie jar – to stop her from engorging herself. That’s how I see the world right now. We’ve become an over-indulgent society and we need someone to take the cookies away from us – to stop us from becoming our own worst enemy…

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A TED Speech: Barry Schwartz – We Stopped Being Wise

Posted in Education, Inspiration, Politics, Words and Semantics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for practical wisdom as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world. 
It’s twenty-minutes in length but worth every minute.
“A wise person is made, not born.”

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Obama Marketing: Tips From an Insider

Posted in Advertising, Art, Branding, Design, Digital, Inspiration, Marketing, Politics, Social Media, Technology, tagged , , , , on January 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

 
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Rob Shepardson, one of the founders of SS+K, and ask him a handful of questions about the firm’s involvement with Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. SS+K was honored to work for Barack Obama as part of the national media team.  As the youth agency, we helped mobilize and [...]

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‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

Posted in Advertising, Education, Financial, Inspiration, Job Hunting, Marketing, New Economy, Politics, Words and Semantics, tagged , , , on January 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »

There was a terrific and thought-provoking piece in yesterday’s WSJ titled, ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years by Stephen Moore.
Moore points to the parallels between the classic Ayn Rand book, “Atlas Shrugged’ — a fictional story about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok and our current economic crisis. Here’s an excerpt [...]

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Design Inspiration Care of Brand Obama

Posted in Art, Branding, Design, Marketing, Politics, tagged , , , on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I love some of the art and design growing out of the Obama movement. Here’s a small sampling of inspirational work I’ve curated for The Third Place.

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Sarah Palin’s Interview with Katie Couric

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Third Place readers…
I don’t want to bias you here, but I encourage you to watch this interview between Sarah Palin and Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News and draw your own conclusions.
 

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