Women are Awesome

Aug 23, 13 Women are Awesome

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Women are awesome. An truly inspiring video with a great beat!

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Turning Forty? It’s a Good Thing

May 05, 13 Turning Forty? It’s a Good Thing

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Turning forty? Don’t despair. If Martha Stewart is any indication, your best days are probably ahead of you.

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What Music Says About Us

Sep 04, 12 What Music Says About Us

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Does the music move you?

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Generation X: The Revolution will Be Tasty

I spend most of my days at work thinking and talking about either Millenials (1981ish-2000ish)or Boomers (1946-1963ish). It’s not really surprising that my own generation — Generation X (1964ish-1980ish) is mostly forgotten by marketers and a lot of other people.  What’s funny, is that part of the reason we’re forgotten is that no one wants to admit their getting older, so the fact that the 40-somethings are no longer Boomers is hard for a HUGE segment of the American public. Beyond that and the obvious issue that both the Boomers and Millenials dwarf us in size, the reality is that our many accomplishments as a generation are also easy to over look for Boomers and Millenials whose ways of changing the world are really different from ours. Generation X, according to generational theorists Strauss and Howe, is a “nomad” generation.  That means our legacy to the world will be liberty, survival, and humor.  Let’s compare that to the Boomers, who are a “prophet” generation.  According to Strauss & Howe their legacy will be vision, values and religion.  Well — those seem like much more obvious things.  Yes, you can thank Generation X for Tina Fey and we totally claim Jon Stewart, even if he’s on the cusp of being a Boomer. But there’s  a real change that Generation X is bringing to the world, and it’s really changing the face of America.  I look around me and see some of the greatest minds of my generation focusing on the food we eat.  I do live in Washington, DC — so it’s a bit of a bubble — but I see Gen-Xers launching farm-to-table initiatives, becoming the next generation of great chefs and focusing on artisan produced foods, brewers, bakers, and probably candlestick makers! You may thing that this focus on the food we eat is yet another sign of the “slacker” mentality we were branded with before we turned 20, but it’s not.  It’s a practical focus on ways to improved the world we live in....

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Technology of Religion, Part I

I have a working theory that a way to judge true technology adoption is through how religious groups are utilizing it and incorporating it. This is the first of a series of explorations around the issue of the impacts of technology on religion, and vice versa.

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Mashable Connect 2011 – Recap

I’ve heard words like epic, amazing, and unforgettable applied to the first Mashable Connect conference. Here’s my recap.  To check out all the conversations look for hashtag #mashcon on Twitter. [View the story “Mashable Connect 2011” on...

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