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Opinion

What happens when conversations amplify?

by The Crazy Colombian on July 7, 2009

in Innovation,Opinion

Image: The Conversation courtesy of soylentgreen23 Once opon a time conversations were small, for all but a tiny number of powerful, well connected people. -Ian Aspin Then social media came along and the number of participants and conversations exploded. As Ian said it in his article this is when Shift happened. Now Shift is happening [...]

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Is bigger always better?

by The Crazy Colombian on February 21, 2009

in Opinion,economy

An article that explores the less well known concept of diseconomies of scale, and its implication for economic investments.

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Scatological reflections

by The Crazy Colombian on February 2, 2009

in Health & Fitness,Opinion

Have you ever paid attention to what goes on when you’re in the toilet? In this article we explain why you should.

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Embracing writer’s block

by The Crazy Colombian on November 10, 2008

in Life,Opinion

Image: If I had something to say courtesy of re_birf Life goes in cycles: Day and night, menstruation, economic and even political cycles govern a lot of our daily lives. And in much the same way, creativity has a life of its own. So occasionally the writer within goes into hibernation. For most professional writers, [...]

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Lend a hand: Peer to peer banking?

by The Crazy Colombian on February 12, 2008

in Innovation,Opinion

Image: Check Writing by carbonNYC With the introduction of Napster some years ago, peer-to-peer quickly became a buzzword that challenged the typical distribution model for music first, and for movies & TV shows later. Nowadays, talk about torrent downloads and online music services is an accepted part of our digital landscape. Some visionaries have even [...]

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Image by Hamed Saber One of my constant sources of inspiration is best-selling author Dan Millman. I am starting to notice a pattern here: two of my spiritual guides (Jack Lalanne and Dan Millman) were former athletes, and shared their perspectives on life with others in a rather public way. If you know of more [...]

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Image by suburbanbloke About a week ago I created a ‘fun quizz’ to assess your level of environmental literacy. Today we will focus on a few things you can do to contribute in the reduction of carbon emissions. Before we get started, let’s see why this is a worthwhile goal. The cause for reducing carbon [...]

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Aiming for excellence

by The Crazy Colombian on December 20, 2007

in Life,Opinion

  Image by nattu On Dan Millman’s blog, there was a recent entry that generated some interesting commentary (click here to see the entry and comments) This is what was said that grabbed my attention: “I feel the aspect of achievement and success and making-something-of-oneself plays less of a role here in Europe. These are, [...]

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Christmas Gift – need ideas?

by The Crazy Colombian on December 18, 2007

in Life,Opinion

No, I am not going to refer you to the page where I have made a list of gifts I want this Christmas. Instead, I am going to ask you a very simple question: What do you plan to give your loved ones this Christmas? You may want to consider giving them a gift that [...]

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Can we fall out of love?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 23, 2007

in Life,Opinion

Image: Kiss with little voyeur courtesy of krisdecurtis When I started this blog, I wrote for myself. The blog started as a collection of random thoughts I was having, primarily during boring business meetings (What? I thought this was about love!” You’re right, dear reader. Hang on there and we’ll get to it in a [...]

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