Clifton Smith

Writing & media

Awareness

Essays on identity, consciousness, entrepreneurship, and the practical experience of building a life.

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…

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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…

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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…

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