Take me to your reader.From Ted Quotes: “Don’t persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.” – Elizabeth Lesser There’s a real threat today. No, it’s not out of control spending. No, it’s not religious zealotry. These are symptoms of a larger ailment. It’s that our conversations about the issues about which we disagree are [...]
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Over at Lawyerist, I recently wrote a post about the interplay between legal web marketing and Siri. Which prompted the following tweet from my friend Kevin O’Keefe: Google, Siri, and Your Law Firm – @gyitsakalakis on @lawyerist goo.gl/mC9pP God forbid we’ll pick a lawyer by talking into iPhone — Kevin OKeefe (@kevinokeefe) January 2, 2012 [...]
Jeff recently sent me Top Five Regrets of The Dying. I think it’s worth reading. After all, we could all use a little more introspection. However, I also think it’s important to recognize some context. As morbid and perhaps unempathetic as it may sound, these are the regrets of the dying, a perspective from which [...]
So I have been making good on my New Year’s resolution and just finished Plato’s Apology. While it wasn’t my first read (that would have been during my undergraduate studies I suppose), it’s remarkable how something can take on so much more meaning depending on where you are in life. Thanks Plato, for reminding me [...]
Since I purchased them, I have been making an effort to complete my Great Books of the Western World reading list. I think this is the year to do it. My goal is to complete at least year one of the suggest 10 year reading plan. With any luck, maybe I will get deep into [...]