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2016-04

16 posts

Jack of All Trades?

Our culture has an obsession with the division of labor – this idea that we separate tasks and projects into specific duties. We believe there are people who should spend their lives cooking, other people selling, other people making things, other people doing counseling, etc. The idea is that if each person is good at just […]

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Asking Good Questions

As a rule, we don’t ask very good questions. This is true in relationships. It’s true in business. It’s true in reporting. The way we ask the first few questions of any conversation can drive the conversation forward or kill it in its tracks. I’d never heard anyway address these issues quite so thoroughly as […]

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Apple vs. FBI

If you read the news lately, reporters talk about how Apple is now feeling “the pressure”. In case you’re not caught up on the conversation, the FBI put pressure on Apple to unlock an iPhone. Apple said no. FBI took Apple to court. Meanwhile, the FBI figured out how to unlock the phone themselves and dropped […]

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Why Travel the World?

This past Easter a group of us hiked to the top Horsetooth rock. Nearly everyone else who went was from the area. And about half the people there hadn’t done the hike and another third hadn’t done it in the past years. We all talk about how we want to travel the world, see new […]

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Most Oceans are Purple

If you’re a little lost by the title, there’s a classic business idea of the “blue ocean”. If you’re in a competitive industry (read: sharks), you’re in a red ocean. There’s blood in the water. If you’re in an industry with no competition, you’re in a blue ocean. There’s lots of space. And no blood. […]

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