At heart I’m a pragmatist and an ironist. I don’t buy into the cult of positive thinking because of its sheer delusional nature. After watching this video by RSA Animate on Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich, an acclaimed journalist and political activitist, and reading this post on BeyondGrowth, The Paint-by-Numbers Guide to your Creative Self-Actualization, it just reinforces [...]
Category Archives: Lifestyle Design
Do We Pretend to Be Rockstars
This was originally entitled “Do We Pretend to Be Lifestyle Rockstars” and was posted on Slacker Reform. I’ve dug it out of the archives and reworked it for a broader audience. We’re a bit of an overachieving generation and community. We want to live exciting world-changing different-country-every-four-months in a single suitcase template-free lives. We want [...]
The Affiliate Marketing Blunder
Are you selling widgets in digital form?
There’s already a glut of junk in the world, do we need to fill the digital world with garbage as well?
Or can we create a digital landscape in which value-heavy products are created by caring, sustainable businesses that act in the good will of their community?
