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It All Depends on You?
In Gladwell’s account, individual traits play a smaller role in explaining success while social circumstances play a larger one. As he told Zengerle, “I am explicitly turning my back on, I think, these kind of empty models that say, you know, you can be whatever you want to be. Well,…
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What’s Out There
Well the dark days of December start to get me thinking about cycling. While you’re wishing you were on your bike, you can check out the 2009 NC Transportation Cycling Events Calendar which is up and growing. Lance Armstrong is Tweetin’ fool. You can follow him here. The Astana Team’s…
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Parker’s Just being ‘tweet
“For serious twitterers, there is additionally a commercial aspect. Building one’s base, so to speak, eventually leads to possible marketing opportunities. When one has a million subscribers to one’s thoughts, then one may have a salable asset. A penny for your thoughts potentially becomes legal tender. What all this means…
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Sketchy
It’s not unusual for me to find myself the subject of a sketch. (What can I say, I’m sketchy.) But yesterday I awoke from a nap in THE chair to find myself a sketcher’s subject model. She didn’t even ask. I feel so violated. Well, I showed her. I had…
Backward Mutters 