011 – Greatness and the Tree

If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound? If a man achieves the impossible and no one’s there to recognize it, is it considered greatness? The first question, an age old brain teaser often recited in the hallways and playgrounds of […]

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010 – Kaizen Beauty: Emails

100,000,000,000 today. 100,000,000,000 tomorrow. 100,000,000,000 the next day. …and the day after that. It doesn’t take a math genius to figure out that that’s a lot.  The number, 100 billion, represents the number of emails sent and received in the world every day. Sure a lot are spam, many automated responses, and even more are […]

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006 – Consuming More 4 Less

Imagine doing these: Read Tolstoy as you’re next in line to order food. Admire the complexity of Rembrandt as you wait for the subway two minutes away. Ignore your friend’s story about work for a second to muse the meaning of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major. Contemplate the arguments of Plato as you sit […]

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