January 2012
1 post
Infants Learning: Words per hour
the relationship between a child’s exposure to language and their eventual linguistic abilities. Specifically, they studied differences in exposure as a function of class, and found that “children in professional families heard more words per hour, resulting in larger cumulative vocabularies.” For specific numbers:
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In professional families, children heard an...
December 2011
1 post
On Working Through Your Competition
There will be times when I am working for several, similar clients at the same time. It’s already a big part of how I do business, and create more consistent business.
Sometimes clients will see one another as competition (for funding among other reasons) which, while true, doesn’t need to come into play and hamper your plans.
The following things pop into mind, my mind, about...
November 2011
1 post
Project Managers Follow Plans & Leads Groups
This morning I had a breakfast meeting with a high-end consultant and project manager. He’s been a project manager for police (crime and DNA policy), large construction projects, municipalities and cities, and has worked with State and Provincial lawyers both in Canada and the US. This man has a massive wealth of experience in taking a variety of projects successfully through to their end.
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September 2011
3 posts
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
3 posts
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Happy to Think More In The Now and Soon
Entrepreneurship and building a gig feels so good is because it allows us to work on closer, more accessible goals. For example as a startup you’re more likely to be concerned with next year and the year after than when you’ve scored a sweet salary job.
In many cases (punching below the belt): Get that job and you’re wondering how good your money looks 16 years down the line....
June 2011
16 posts
Ab-Originals: Hip Hop & new Aboriginal artists on... →
Hip Hop with lyrics you could never come up with.
It’s fresh I’m telling you.
Link to CBC Radio 3 here.
WatchI spent part of Saturday afternoon out on the Saanich peninsula (at Tixen a.k.a: Cordova Spit) for the Tsawout Nation seafood festival. And once again, what a great event!
There was singing and dancing and cooking and talking and great weather. I loved the culture and spirituality taking the forefront.
Connect with your surrounding community, or risk living on the fringes!
You can pull my head aside but the modern drift is...
First Kick At AUDIO POST linked to
Enter a market as yourself. Overcome the personality conundrum.
Link to hosted blog post: thinkWest blog podcast.
May 2011
19 posts
Be Careful When Your Business
A note of caution when your business is to “improve” others’ business. You have to be worthy.
This post is partly in response and because of my friend Collin’s post on JFDI - - a post on motivation, action, and entrepreneurship. This is a commentary on what it is like to take action in a certain market, not an actual comment on anyone’s worthiness.
It’s a...
70 of California's 278 State Parks to Close Due to... →
NOT COOL: where’s all the money? we know.
The cuts are a result of a bill [Gov.] Brown signed into law last month that trims $11 million from the parks budget in the fiscal year that begins July 1, and $22 million the next fiscal year.
Among those scheduled to close are the Governor’s and Leland Stanford mansions in Sacramento, the Antelope Valley Indian Museum, the Salton Sea State...
Health is an odd thing and it goes deep. Very... →
Health is heritage and culture. Some understand this more than others.
Health is a personal current - one that is not customized enough. Healthy citizens are ones that recognize themselves and others respectively.
Food needs to be revealed for (and as) what it is. We like to pretend it’s not a luxury, which it is.
This article makes me happy in that it’s a start: that culture and...
A boss you can take anywhere
I find it interesting that I am told people need bosses. I have been told that by friends talking about themselves or about people they oversee.
Often I am left speechless. As in, I don’t quite know how to disagree. I have felt that too but I think back and realize that it wasn’t a boss I needed.
We don’t need bosses we need inspired leaders. More importantly we need like-minded...
The eye of the beholder
#NeverTruer
shitmystudentswrite:
So far happiness for Jane is what she assumes is happiness.
Reflections: Traveling with an Impairment →
Reblogged: woundedcrane:
It has been a very emotional trip to Barcelona, Spain for me. It was my first time in a strange city. Usually I travel to America or Asian countries. Traveling with a hearing impairment or any disabilities can be a sudden stampede… Although I have always been an go getter and never given up on…
April 2011
20 posts
A top skill of no top skill
I have resorted to telling people that I ‘have no real skills’ but I do so with a sense of humor and sick confidence. An air of: I remain an idiot but look at me go anyway.
They’re often like, “no you must have skills - maybe you have people skills”.
it doesn’t matter what I have, which is why I never defend myself. What I have is no top skill which allows a...