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Seth’s Stamps for Emails
Email is already broken. And it’s going to get a lot worse. We need a lot more than individual inbox zero tactics.
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You Have to Choose
In the internet age, we’re all content creators. This didn’t start with the internet, but with us. We all have something to say.
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Writing Goals for 2016
We all need goals. I see them like the map to the destination. I won’t know when to turn where until I get to the road anyway, but at least I know my direction. I’ve taken on my three words for this year and am making them more a part of my routine. I remain conscious…
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Simple, bold, NOW!
Several years ago, I made a nearly nightly trip to Barnes & Noble to read and write. I had discovered Seth Godin’s books Tribes and The Dip and I was starting another: Lynchpin. This was the book I was looking for. In a very literal and figurative way. It was the book. The book I…
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Build Systems or Leaders?
Which is more important: the system or the leader? Since arriving at St. Paul’s, which is a pastoral-sized congregation*, I’ve figured out that much of the structure of the church is based on specific leaders doing specific tasks, rather than systems. I’m not sure how to feel about this. *[a pastoral-sized congregation is what many…
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Good Enough Isn’t
My wife and I don’t watch home improvement shows that often, but occasionally, we’ll have HGTV on for most the afternoon, forgetting that it isn’t really our cup of tea. I got sucked into a couple of episodes of a show about flipping houses. Again, not my thing, but at the time it was strangely…
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On Creating More Hassles
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…