If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.I really enjoy the way this guy works. His writing is inspired and apparently from watching this video, his speaking is as well.
We need more analytical thinkers like him around.

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After reading and re reading the first chapters of the book I finally decided to scrap the direction and start over. It feels too condescending and self absorbed and needs to be of more value to the reader. I was hoping to be able to make the case for cities and their communities by touting [...]

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My mornings are very predictable. At six my phone starts its melodic harp sound telling me its time to get up. It pops up with a box that says “Take today and run with it”. I think I thought when I set it up that reading something inspirational would help me be ready to take [...]

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I get up every morning to write before the rest of my family to write some on my book. I find that mornings are my most creative times of day. But lately I am running into a wall and I want to see if you can help out.
I need some stories and ideas to help [...]

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I have to keep saying this in case there is anyone out there that would think that I am posting a finished work here. The things I am posting from the ongoing book project are raw and totally unedited. They are not in any way finished or even close to being grammatically correct. I put [...]

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As I have been working on the book I have begun to hate the word “Community” Sort of like when you say the same thing over and over it begins to sound less and less like a word and more like a bunch of weird sounds mashed together….”Rural” is another one that sounds funny to [...]

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As I have been working on the book I have been observing spaces and the way we interact in them.  It’s interesting to me to watch people at a coffee shop. Once you enter, things change. It’s like we all have adopted a new reality of how to interact in this place and it’s understood. [...]

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Ok. This happened really fast. It’s amazing when you have something waiting to come out of you how easy it is. I am putting this up here in its raw form. I only skimmed through it to look for typos and it will be edited many times before making it into the book but I [...]

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I got up early this morning to write and the chapter I am working on is about community and the different ways we all engage with it in our lives. I looked up the word and found a definition I like.
Community; a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
I [...]

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I was not sure if I wanted to get on the blog here and start talking about this project until I was further along but I am beginning to think that the benefits of including everyone in the process outweigh the risk of humiliation if this thing were never to get published.
Its a tough thing [...]

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