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Even though some speaking opportunities don’t slow down for busy executives as I wrote in my last post, I have obviously slowed down with the blog writing a little too. I’ve been a little busier with some other projects, but reality is that things are just slower in the summer of 2010. That said, it’s not at a complete halt. Here are some of my latest global brain candy thoughts.
For the next book club, we’re reading Zeitoun, which is a story about Syrian-born Abdulrahman Zeitoun’s experience after Katrina. I will limit detailed discussion of the book to the ...read more
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I follow the blogs of Fred Wilson and Brad Feld, two venture capitalists of media companies, to stay abreast of the latest media trends, so I thought it was interesting to see that they both joined an effort to create and promote Startupvisa.com. They established the site to raise awareness of the EB-5 visa, “which enables investors from other countries to get a visa in exchange for starting a business in the US with $1M in capital (or $500K for economically targeted areas) & the creation of at least 10 US jobs” and to support their proposal to “enable ...read more
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I went to my first book club meeting yesterday evening, and I have to admit that it’s a nice complement to day-to-day life for anyone who hasn’t tried it. This wasn’t always the case. My original reason for agreeing to the book club was that I wanted to support a friend’s initiative, my participation would make me finish a book more quickly and I was curious what it would be like. None of these reasons are great, so it felt really uncomfortable when the first book club meeting started and I felt like I had voluntarily returned to high school. As I heard the others reflect on Obama’s ...read more
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With the new year, I wanted to refresh my “About” section, and now seemed like a great moment in time to do it. In addition, at the beginning of this month, I am embarking onto a semi-new adventure of doing a lot more media work than I have in the past, and I can’t wait!
In my last “About” section, I started off with a quote from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” At the beginning of 2010, that whole idea was sounding so stale, and a part of my life was ...read more
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One area of inspiration that I’ve thought about for Global Brain Candy was past written work, particularly on economic development and immigration, and reigniting some of my commitment to exploring my interests in those areas. However, I recently saw a fellow co-author Stephanie Sewell King at a New Year’s brunch. While at Columbia, Stephanie and I were part of a team that penned “Corporate Social Responsibility: An Emerging Form of Risk Management in Europe,” for a Columbia University publication. Many of the key concepts in the piece really point to sustainable business practices, but I don’t think that was a buzz work when we wrote the piece. Or at ...read more
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I woke up this morning to an incredibly inspiring and encouraging message on Facebook regarding a Teddy Roosevelt quote I posted a while ago. The same friend who had written had also once recited a great poem. I always forget the poem’s title, but I always remember vaguely the way I felt when I heard it. Between the Teddy Roosevelt quote and this beautiful poem (below), I may be considered a hopeless optimist. But we do what we have to do to survive the highs and lows, and here it goes (this friend also reminded me of the title via Facebook)…
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Since I’m posting this right before Thanksgiving, I wanted to take this opportunity to send a big thanks to my blog visitors for taking time to stop by. Launching and maintaing a blog can be a real time suck, but I think that the upside more than compensates in the sense that it’s given me the opportunity to explore other interests outside of work and connect with others who have mutual interests or are just curious about similar things.
Given that this blog’s been up for a little more than six months, I thought I’d post some of the most popular ones (not just from the last week thanks to Google ...read more
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Now that this blog has been up for almost six months, I’ve learned a lot, changed a lot and will probably be shifting gears a little. Blogging is a great outlet for exploring interests outside of work, and it’s also a great way to have a broader dialogue with others who have similar or mutual interests or just want to know what you’re up to. Starting a blog was a little like getting into Facebook in the sense that it just offered another extension of topics to talk about with people you know.
When I launched the blog, I had just started to work on broader digital media projects at work, ...read more
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When I first cracked open the Blind Side, I never imagined that I was embarking on this great lesson in football and Michael Oher’s reinvention from a lost, inner city teenager to a potential NFL star. Wow was all I could think after peeling through the book, and I can’t wait to see the move coming out this November! I may even read a newer version of the book coming out on October 12.
Michael Oher’s story at the surface is interesting but not particularly surprising in the sense that you already know from the back of the book cover that a wealthy Caucasian family helps a ...read more
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I was reading one of my favorite bloggers, Fred Wilson, and he has this interesting feature called Zemanta to reblog his posts. I thought it was interesting and tried it out on one of his postings that I thought was relevant to mine. Below is the result. I think they try to make it a standalone posting for a blog, but it looked so random on its own that I decided to put an intro. I’m sure I’ll find more of his work that I’ll want to reblog, so let’s see if they refine this function. In the meantime, I may check out one ...read more
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