A six-mile wide chunk of cosmic trash came screaming toward us faster than a missile. In 10 minutes, the face of the earth changed forever. No one could have seen it coming, telescopes being short in supply at the end of the Cretaceous period (and T-rexes not being very good at fiddling with the focus knobs). The year that followed was literally … [Read more...] about How to Survive the End of the World
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How to Get Delightfully Rich (and Still Keep Your Soul)
Thinking about the post I would write for Blog Action Day, I started to realize just how powerful this "poverty" idea is. In the developed world, swimming the way we are in material abundance that we can't really see, just changing your thinking about poverty can have profound implications for the kind of success you can start to create. I don't … [Read more...] about How to Get Delightfully Rich (and Still Keep Your Soul)
Beatrix Kiddo’s Guide to Making It Happen
Did you happen to see Kill Bill? Quentin Tarantino, in his infinite wisdom, swirled two good and completely incompatible movies together to create a pair of interesting but confused train wrecks. I happen to like the slow-moving parts, because I'm weird. People hacking each other up with swords bores me, but I really like long conversations where … [Read more...] about Beatrix Kiddo’s Guide to Making It Happen
Things to Do Before You Get Famous
Last year, internationally celebrated violinist Joshua Bell tried an experiment. He took his violin (a Stradivarius built in 1713, worth about $3.5 million) into the Washington, D.C. Metro and played for about 45 minutes. If you want to get cheap seats to hear Joshua Bell perform, expect to pay at least $100. So who stopped to listen to him play … [Read more...] about Things to Do Before You Get Famous
