Things I Read this Weekend (3-23-2014)

Too much choice is always bad
http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/18/does-having-choice-make-us-happy-6-studies-that-suggest-it-doesnt-always/

http://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_choosing_what_to_choose

Simon Sinek is my hero:
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action

http://www.inc.com/stephanie-meyers/simon-sinek-evolution-leadership.html

https://startwithwhy.com/

The most social companies:
http://mashable.com/2014/03/18/social-small-biz-winner/

It makes me want a chromebook. Except I don’t need a chromebook:
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57620507-285/how-to-run-both-chrome-os-and-ubuntu-on-a-chromebook/?ttag=fbwp

Good business advice from Warren Buffett’s career
http://ventureburn.com/2013/03/14-lessons-every-startup-can-learn-from-warren-buffett/

Russia is building a space hotel with 4 guest rooms, launching in 2 years:
http://en.docsity.com/news/interesting-facts/russia-building-hotel-space/

That’s entertainment?

Today, while the Boston police are tracking the 2nd suspected Boston Marathon bomber, I clicked on a news story, and had to watch a video ad first. It was for a buddy cop movie with lots of guns, car chases. It did not feel like entertainment. It did not feel fun today. Maybe that’s the correct reaction to seeing guns and a car chase. Maybe they should not be entertainment.

Boston

I saw “Argo” on Saturday, which began with a very simple history lesson to remind the audience that the US engineered a coup and supported a dictator in order to secure oil supplies, which resulted in unfathomable misery and killings for decades. Plus the 1979 hostage crisis, etc, etc.
Now this bombing, today.
I’m not condoning violence. I abhor violence. But I also recognize many people are very angry about all sorts of things we generally don’t think about, and from their perspective, it’s with cause. I recognize karma. I recognize there’s always more to the story. And the victims are usually innocent of the cause.
Please be nice. Everyone, please learn to forgive the past and work toward peace and understanding. Violence on top of violence does no good.

Creative use of carbon nanotubes could provide us with “free energy”

This TED presentation shows how we could make windows energy-efficient, get free solar power from any structural surface, and store it all efficiently, or share it with your neighbors. This is highly disruptive technology. “Disruptive” meaning “threatening to current energy industries”.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/justin_hall_tipping_freeing_energy_from_the_grid.html

 

 

Chick-fil-A is Insane

I create brands, logos, slogans. And as a professional, I think this lawsuit that Chick-fil-A has brought against a small t-shirt silkscreener is insanity. Do you think a t-shirt that says “Eat More Kale” could possibly be confused with their “Eat Mor Chikin” campaign? Last time I checked, chicken was not a vegetable. Does Chick-fil-A even sell vegetables? Maybe their lawyers don’t know what kale is. Maybe their lawyers just needed to increase their billable hours…

http://www.change.org/petitions/chick-fil-a-stop-bullying-small-business-owners

This is what war does.

Iraqi Taxi Drivers killed for their cars, buried in mass grave.

Are they less oppressed now than before the war?

Lee’s on TV

I was just interviewed on-camera for the show ‘Nitebeat with Barry Nolan’ airing at 7pm tomorrow night (Thu 2-2-06). The topic is offsetting your carbon emissions, and the trend toward trading the right to pollute. It’s on Comcast cable, and I have RCN! Now I must burn some fossil fuels to go watch myself on TV…

A carbon footprint is what you cause in greenhouse emissions by being a consumer, driving a car, etc. You can pay a fee to have your carbon emissions (greenhouse gasses) offset by green power projects or absorbed by new forests:
http://www.carbonfund.org

Goodbaker and Lee Busch Design do this as part of being a green company.