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- What a cool ideaOctober 21
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One of my good friends, Tim Magner, has done a lot of cool things since I've known him. He's now onto another. He started a publishing company called Green Sugar Press. In his words:
Green Sugar Press exists to ensure that our future leaders understand Cheerios don’t come from a box, milk doesn't come from a plastic bottle, water doesn't come from the tap and gasoline doesn't originate at a pump.
To understand the environment is to know its connections. Like letters build words and words build stories, the environment is made up of countless pieces and parts. Each plays an important role. Remove one and it changes the entire story.
The concept as he explained it to me is simple: give kids a picture that things are connected and the environment isn't just a cause, but a part of us and we a part of it.
Tim is currently working with several school districts to utilize some of his concepts in lesson plans that incorporate these ideas. For example: using the planting of a vegetable garden as a way to teach about weather, math, science, etc. Leverage real world examples of systems to teach academic fundamentals. Cool stuff.
- Will the real realist please stand up? please stand up.October 9
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Over the last 2 weeks I've had the privilege and opportunity to listen, talk with, and participate in a number of discussions with really smart people about the current economic crisis. Some of these discussions have been at formal events (CxO conference, and a Panel at CU's business school) as well as informal chats with very smart and well-credentialed folks.
Maybe its me, and I certainly don't want to come across as the optimistic Pollyanna, but haven't we seen this movie before? In the early 80's, in the early 90's, in the early 00's.. We live in a world of cycles. This time, really smart people that were motivated (paid) on stretching the boundaries, pushed the envelope too far. Now we're paying the price. Note the "we" not "they" - but that's a different story.
Where this starts to go sideways with me is the pervasive pessimism and fear that I keep hearing. I don't deny that things are bad and very likely to get worse. Many of the problems are systemic and massive on any scale. That said, I don't feel like every area of the economy is in the shitter. Financials, yes 100% agree, that sucks and if I were a structured finance guy I'd probably douse myself in gasoline and light a match.
I've witnessed CEOs of big companies say that every company that is venture-backed and not yet profitable should cut 25% of its staff now. That strikes me as irrational. Doesn't it depend on
- Where's Wally?September 5
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Still here.. just freekin' busy.
1. Bought a house (10 acres, horse property)
2. Can't live in it (since May) because it was mouse-infested and had asbestos everywhere
3. Demo-ed the entire inside of the house, removed asbestos, walls, floors, wiring, plumbing, everything
4. Oops, need a building permit from the Republic of Boulder to do that
5. Attacked by (and then dispatched) a 6 ft Snake on said horse property
6. Finally got building permit (it ONLY took 2 months, and many hoops to jump through)
7. Wish the workers would take more work breaks than smoke breaks
8. Finally seeing some progress
9. Should be out of living in the parent's basement by November
Oh and in the meantime...
We are knocking the cover off the ball here at Lijit. Our network is growing at over 100% Q/Q and we just raised $7.1 in new VC financing. It was a super-smooth fund raise, but they all take special time and attention to get done and get done right. Now all we have to do is execute. How hard can that be?!?
Found some time to ride my bike, although all my cycling friends are crushing the "slow guy". I did manage to complete the Triple Bypass and the Sunrise century. This weekend its the Buffalo Classic.
- WTF - do cats really need to scuba?July 8
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- Cycling Blogs I LikeMay 1
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One of the interesting things about Lijit is that it gives me a bunch of cool stats about the people that come to my blog, what they read, search for, and ultimately click on.
I've noticed that people search me (a lot) for: "cycling blogs" and no results are returned from my blog, because I've never written about cycling blogs. I have most of them book-marked in Del.icio.us so the results do show up in my Lijit search, albeit on the "my content" tab.
Here are the ones I like and read from time to time. Not all are "blogs" per-se, others are cycling-specific sites that have great cycling content and/or good RSS feeds (like VeloNews).
