No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne In good cartoonist form, Scott Adams starts with a killer hook: “Why do we make B students sit through the same classes as their brainy peers? That’s like trying to train your [...]
Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
What is a “Real Education”?
Posted in Business, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching, tagged classical education, education, entreprenuership on 20 April 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Personality Type Quiz
Posted in Business, Personal, tagged five love languages, learning style, myers briggs, values on 4 February 2011 | 2 Comments »
Your Name: ______________________ Today’s Date: ___________ Where is your energy naturally directed? Extroverts’ energy is directed primarily outward, towards people and things outside of themselves. Introverts’ energy is primarily directed inward, towards their own thoughts, perceptions, and reactions. Therefore, Extroverts tend to be more naturally active, expressive, social, and interested in many things, whereas Introverts [...]
Ghost Writing
Posted in Business, tagged SEO on 13 January 2011 | 2 Comments »
I am in the test phase of serving as a ghost writer for a SEO company that promotes products in the guise of informational blog posts. I get paid two cents per word to write a blog post on almost any topic, but targeted at a particular audience and featuring two keywords at least twice [...]
The 10th Annual Year in Ideas
Posted in Aesthetics, Business, Fashion, Food and Wine, Literary, Movies Music Media, Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 17 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting feature from The New York Times Magazine: For the 10th consecutive December, the magazine has chosen to look back on the past year through a distinctive prism: ideas. Our digest of short entries refracts the light beam of human inspiration, breaking it up into its constituent colors — innovations and insights from a spectrum [...]
Check out my new business: Whimsy Bears!
Posted in Aesthetics, Business, Personal on 16 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Time for my unveiling! I am officially a business owner, with a website and everything: After three months of “market research”, I have concluded there is a market for my whimsical creations. But not the lil’old grandmas I originally anticipated. Take Trent, for instance. He’s 26 years old and commissioned a Drag Racing Bear for [...]
POLL: Preference?
Posted in Aesthetics, Business, Personal, tagged logos, startups, teddy bears on 21 October 2010 | 5 Comments »
I am in the process of starting a business. Despite my Master’s in Business Administration, I do not have a business plan. I have no idea how I will scale the business so that it will be profitable. I do not have a elevator pitch prepared for potential meetings with angel investors. I have no [...]
The Emma Story Contest
Posted in Business, Personal on 28 July 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dear Friends, Writers, and Friends of Writers, Have you ever dreamed of authoring a children’s book? I am holding a contest for a short story (no more than 2,000 words) based on a toy bear named Emma and a young child (between the ages of 5 – 12 years old) who have an adventure that [...]
An Unpopular Virtue
Posted in Business, Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 19 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius — Latin for Swifter, Higher, Stronger. Does anyone else, in light of recent events, see the inevitable dilemma this motto creates? The words are comparatives. It’s unattainable. Unlike excellence, which might theoretically be achieved, by choosing the comparative form Baron de Coubertin condemned athletes to a perpetual striving, [...]
“Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?”
Posted in Business, Politics on 3 February 2010 | 1 Comment »
For my global economics course, we were assigned an article by Alan Blinder from Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006. His thesis is that as information technology improves, developed nations will outsource their impersonal service jobs to the cheapest vendor (this practice is called “offshoring”) but will necessarily retain their personal services. This massive shift in labor [...]
Business as a Christian Calling
Posted in Business, Philosophy and Theology on 24 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
In 1994, Tony Campolo gave a speech at Biola’s Missions Conference which strongly attacked business as a valid vocation for Christians and criticized capitalism as “an anti-Christian value system.” While I won’t quote his speech at length, I fear his message encapsulated many Christians’ attitude towards business and the economy. Allow me to take his [...]
