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Opinion

What happens when conversations amplify?

by The Crazy Colombian on July 7, 2009

in Innovation, Opinion

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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 all the […]

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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

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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

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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 started […]

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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 characters […]

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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 emis­sions: Climate […]

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Aiming for excellence

by The Crazy Colombian on December 20, 2007

in Life, Opinion

 

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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, after all, […]

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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 makes […]

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Can we fall out of love?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 23, 2007

in Life, Opinion

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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 sec­ond)
However, […]

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