by Rhett Smith on May 22, 2009
[image from wearitdotcom] When someone says it better than I can, then my philosophy is…let them say it. So the following is a long quote from the article Suburban Spirituality: The land of SUV’s and soccer leagues tends to weather the soul in peculiar ways, but it doesn’t have to. For all of its foibles—which [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 20, 2009
[image by e453753] Over the last couple of posts I have looked at the primacy of finances and family as to reasons why people often move to the suburbs. Those are two of the reasons we consider very important as well. And let me remind my readers that suburban life is not the only place [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 13, 2009
Who Is Wess Daniels? That’s hard for me to sum up in just a few words because Wess does a lot of different things, and he does them really well. He’s one of the more eclectic friends (loves technology, but also obsessed with vinyl records as of late) I have, and he’s definitely one of [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 23, 2008
Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (pp. 29-30) Running an organization is difficult in and of itself, no matter what its goals. Every transaction it undertakes—every contract, every agreement, every meeting—requires it to expend some limited resource: time, attention, or money. Because of these transaction costs, some sources of [...]
