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Feb/03/12//Curtis Ogden//Inspiration

Growing Our Way Into a New Economy

This may be the best 14 minutes of your day (and the best TED talk ever). Watch it! Go Green Bronx Machine! Si se puede!

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Jan/27/12//IISC//Inspiration

Essential

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Jan/10/12//IISC//Featured, Inspiration

Trading in your pain

The following post is reblogged from Seth’s Blog. We hope that it will enrich your life and much as it has ours.

The pain of a lousy boss, of careless mistakes, of insufficient credit. The pain of instability, of bullying, of inadequate tools. The pain of poor cash flow, corrosive feedback and work that isn’t worthy of you.

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Jan/06/12//Gibrán Rivera//Featured, Inspiration

Epiphany

What has been the most important epiphany in your life?

Today is the Feast of the Epiphany and I’m from Puerto Rico where we celebrate it as Three Kings Day.    In fact, I’ve just heard it argued that Puerto Rico is the country with the strongest tradition of “Día de los Reyes.”  Our Christmas gifts used to come on this date instead of December 25.  We would leave grass under our beds so that their camels could eat as they went from house to house.  I grew up in a nationalist household, so my family was among the last hold outs as “Americanization” (which was really commercialism and marketing) led more and more people to get into Santa Claus.  To this day my father hates Santa – it’s actually kind of funny.

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Dec/21/11//Curtis Ogden//Inspiration

Catching Up With Bucky

Clearly a man ahead of his time, R. Buckminster Fuller’s thinking seems to become more and more relevant.  His invitation is for us all to be comprehensive anticipatory design scientists, to engage in the “design science revolution.”

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