Full disclosure…I’m a sucker for a kickin’ rock guitarist. I was weaned on the front edge of the Brit Invasion with Pete Townsend, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. So when Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconvenient Truth, convinced Page, The Edge and Jack White into shooting a six string rockumentary, needless to say I [...]
There is no doubt. These are difficult times; lost jobs, empty homes, shattered retirements and worse. It often feels as though we’re weighed down by the sheer size of the problems around us.
But last night I saw something that up until just a few months ago no one had ever seen and it lifted me. [...]
Here is a short video from the recent trip I made with my son Jacob to Tanzania with the San Diego based NGO, Floresta. There are shots on safari as well as the visits we made to some of the remote villages they support.
The country is amazing. The work is profoundly important. But most of [...]
Unfortunately, male pattern baldness does not run in my family. That means, well into my middle years, I still have enough sprouting up there to occasionally read what’s going down in DC, grab two handfuls, scream at the top of my lungs and pull with all my might.
Here’s a zinger I stumbled on today while [...]
A rare re-post from our company blog. A great group of people doing amazing work…
“With 85% of all global disease directly attributed to bad water, the stakes and opportunity for improving lives in the developing world have never been higher. Our friends at Water for Life approached us to completely redesign their identity and take [...]
America has a personnel management problem. The personnel in question; the ever present boomer generation, the 7 million of us born between 1946 and 1964. And the management problem is just what to do with us as we ease into our twilight years. As with everything else related to this generation, the numbers are big. [...]
I took a couple of hours this weekend to watch Into Great Silence, a documentary film directed by Philip Gröning that was first released in 2005. It’s the remarkable story of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in a remote corner of the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The film was [...]
Kudos to CNN. The more unsavory elements of their feature, Culprits of the Collapse have been removed from the current broadcasts. I’d like to think the effort from our earlier post made a difference. Strike another blow for the blogosphere.
The events of the last few weeks have left many Americans anxious and fearful. Nothing stirs emotions quite like losing money. And Americans have lost a boatload. The financial gains they’ve made over the last 5 -10 years have disappeared. Seniors on fixed incomes are reassessing retirement and many will have to return to work. [...]