The road from initial ideas to ultimately successful ventures is littered with false starts, failures, dead ends, and lucky strikes that often go unrecorded and were and are impossible to predict and engineer ex
Eventually, I abandoned that too, and put all my scant hair up into two slim barrettes (this is how scant my hair is– only two barrettes), and put on old unlovely jeans to go to Costco with Frank to buy some essential, irrelevant-to-birthdays thing I cannot remember anymore– other t...
A team of lawnmower experts who were there to check there’s enough gas in the tank, to top it off if there isn’t, to make sure the spark plug is not fouled, to make sure the blade is adjusted correctly, or just grab the cord and pull with you. That’s what a Venture Studio ...
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. ...
So there is a dramatic dichotomy to the story -- a dream season taking place amid a bigger dream that didn’t materialize. “How do you not let the weight of past failures not strip you of your youth?” Ikegami asks. “How do you recover from that?” ...
“Q” is a little less quiet in nature, but still manageable on the scale of ram lamb handling- they are springy young ones, with a lot of vitality to grow into. above: “Q” and “Quinn” below:flock with “Quinn” out front, female lamb “Quasar” (red cape), behind her dark...
It’s littered with celebrity gossip and exaggerated political drama — both of which yield a wide reach but incentivize empty content. And yet, as the Paradox of Abundance predicts, Twitter is also one of the world’s top intellectual communities. It’s the bedrock of my social and ...
The road to the publication dream is littered with unfinished manuscripts, dejected hearts, and writers wondering if they should turn around and head home. The rejection from agents and publishers, the slow sales, the negative reviews, are all hurdles every writer will face. ...
Bonn in June – a lovely and very cultured city, littered with museums; after all it’s where Beethoven was born. Excellent weather too – barely a cloud in the sky, and it’s warm without being stifling. This was the setting for the SB42 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (...
When you’re as unfathomably successful as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the rare failures in your life tend to stand out. That would explain the endless stream of “Tooth Fairy” jokes John Cena launched in The Great One’s direction during the buildup to their WrestleMania showdown. It’...