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This is Peter and Carl and Eduardo. Peter and Carl are new clients in Surrey, England. Eduardo’s a bartender in central London that made it easier for me to write this post. Peter and Carl have known each other for twenty years. They started their own business eight years back. They finish each other’s sentences. [...]

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FULL: Anatomy of a Small Relief Effort, Part 4

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This truck here? People with big hearts came from all over mid-Missouri Saturday and filled it. Yep. Full - palettes from front to back. When we started this on Monday, we didn’t know what to expect, but people started lining up shortly after the truck pulled up. It was heartwarming. It was a little overwhelming. [...]

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Go Time: Anatomy of a Small Relief Effort, Part 3

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The day has come. For us, the week has gone by fast. We’ve seen and heard stories of grace and horror. It’s time to do what we’re gonna do. I turned onto Club Village Drive from Forum and saw the big honkin’ Mizzou Football truck. It was a pretty cool sight. Cooler still? The fact [...]

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Anatomy of a Small Relief Effort, Part 2

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As I wrote on Tuesday, my friends David and Meghan Rowe are staging a relief effort this Saturday at their restaurant in Columbia for the tornado victims of Joplin, and they asked for my help. We are collecting hygiene items and bottled water. None of us have done anything like this before. I’m writing stuff [...]

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2 Big Things: Anatomy of a Small Relief Effort, Part 1

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My friends David and Meghan Rowe are staging a relief effort this Saturday at their restaurant in Columbia for the tornado victims of Joplin, and they asked for my help. We are collecting hygiene items and bottled water. None of us have done anything like this before. I’m writing stuff down that I learn along [...]

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Man In The Arena

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“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs [...]

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A Time For Heroes

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Yet, the true measure of a people’s strength is how they rise they rise to master that moment … But every time we think we’ve measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up, and we’re reminded that our capacity may well be limitless. If you can’t see the embedded video, click here to [...]

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Joplin

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Tornadoes are mythologized, marketed and even celebrated. Until they’re not. Joplin needs our help. I think The Weather Channel promoted it as The Great Tornado Hunt or something, and there are numerous storm chaser shows. The host of the tornado show, Mike Bettes, broke down on air when it - the humanity, the loss, the [...]

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My Calendar App - A Nerd Goes Old School

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I’m a nerd. I believe we’ve been over this. For planning, to-do’s and scheduling I have a simple-but-trusted online system for sharing events with my family and soon-to-be business partner. I can access events, dates, and to-do’s from anywhere at anytime with pretty much any device. But … Corrine Taylor taught me to go old [...]

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Have a Mac? Get Cinch.

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If you have a Mac, and you don’t have Cinch, you should try it now. It does only two things, but it does them very well. Contrary to popular belief amongst my fellow fanboys, Apple hasn’t gotten everything right … yet. I think their window management fairly well stinks (sometimes the plus button works - [...]

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