improvement
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Achievement
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4 min read
Episode 50 of the Make Saints podcast
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If it ain’t broke, make it better
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4 min read
When the first iPhone debuted, it changed everything. It wasn’t just a hot seller or a fad gadget, but a certified game changer. Suddenly everyone was signing up for data plans, and the U.S. and world markets exploded over the new technology. iPhone was king. Apple’s strategy with the phone, like its strategy 30 years…
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Change isn’t the hardest thing
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2 min read
We think change is hard. We associate all sorts of unpleasantness and discomfort with it. We moan about the unknown and cry but we hate change! when invited to try something new. We don’t really hate change. And change isn’t really all that hard. It just isn’t “normal” to us. Try eating at a…
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On Creating More Hassles
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1 min read
In today’s blog post, “On creating a hassle,” Seth Godin writes: To quote Merlin Mann, “You don’t let the guy with the broom control how many elephants are in the parade.” Harsh to say, but the fact is that great storytellers and artists and ruckus makers manage to insulate themselves from the people they’re going…
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Fixing What We Got Wrong
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2 min read
My mentor during seminary, The Rev. Darren Elin once remarked that we get our two biggest holidays backwards: we celebrate Christmas the night before and Easter the morning after when it should be the other way around. Boy was he right. This is my first Christmas in 5 years in which I wasn’t one of…
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Flying: how change came before you noticed it
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3 min read
Remember the old image of flying in an airplane? The smoky cabin, everyone dressed in suits, the stewardesses pretty and amiable. Everything with the nostalgic sheen of an episode of Mad Men. Flying was the purview of the wealthy and the hardworking. It wasn’t for the common man. Of course, those that fly routinely know…