Three thoughts for a beautiful summer day. (Or is that my brain melting?) One: Hard to decide if RadioShack’s effort to rebrand themselves to “The Shack” is off to a good start… When I Googled it came after a book called The Shack, and in news it followed the story “Woman Found Dead in Homeless [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ideas_from_Strange_Places’
Following Instructions
From the Ideas From Strange Places Department I found myself at the laundromat for the first time in a very long time. I was a reluctant customer, but time was running out as evidenced by three rather large bags of laundry in my car’s back seat. Now, I’m the first to say customers aren’t stupid. [...]
Buffalo Bill, Eiffel, Otis and The Keys To Success
Flexible Rigidity. Sometimes you need to bend and sometimes you need to stand firm when driving forward. So what can we learn from Buffalo Bill, Gustave Eiffel and Charles Otis about the balancing act we must perform while being torn between these two opposites? Too flexible at the wrong time and you do something you [...]
Abandon Logic, Create Then Verify!
Logic has a peculiar way of boxing you in even as it helps you make great decisions. It leads you down a path, logically, step by step. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet, knowing how way leads onto way I [...]
Nook and Cranny Creativity
From the ideas from strange places department: Papaw didn’t get out to use his grill early enough this year and so someone else set up shop. Now, some would have said it is a bad idea to build a nest in a grill with summer parties around the corner. But mom and dad bird had [...]
