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When you arrive in Alaska, you can’t help but think about how big the world is, how magnificent nature is, and how you fit into it. Tyler ...

“Everyone,” my host began, “has their own mythology of Alaska .” As we drove out from Anchorage, past the town of Wasilla (yep, the hom...

For those of you keeping track, it took 18 months to make it from state 47 (Oregon ) to state 48. (Interestingly enough, it also took 18 mon...

On very rare occasions, I wonder that. See a documentary on TV or read a story about it, but never before have I really FELT a bit nervous...

It’s really not about just China, it’s about competing in a globalized world. My trip to China just being the impetus for the thought. I re...

Image via Wikipedia “It’s kind of like an ocean where the water is calm on the surface, but underneath, it’s quite dangerous.” One...

Image via Wikipedia I had the opportunity to go to Beijing to teach a class on Digital and Social Marketing. I took it, not just ...

As I sat at breakfast in Beijing, I read an insightful and scary blog ( Back to Wrong School ) post by Seth Godin about the challenges assoc...

Day 2 in Beijing took me to the Yonghegang Temple, a fairly large complex that was full with multiple and ENORMOUS statues of the Buddha . ...

  Last time I was here was 1997 and suffice it to say, the city is VERY different now. Sure, there are a ton of people and I got the ful...

Great advice from my friend, Rajesh. Worth the read: Why many smart people hit a plateau (and stay there)

Now that the kids are old enough to be left alone in the bath, we let them stay in there for a while, enjoying the bubbles, doing whatever t...

Just one of those random coincidence moments the other night. I was reading “I am not going to get up today” to Nadia…we turned the page a...

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since I stood on the corner of 6th and Bleecker (I had jury duty that day) and watched the World Trade Ce...

I'm sure there are websites upon websites devoted to the subject, but sometimes I wish I could just wave a magic wand and have the kids ...

One of the highest compliments I get is that I can 'sell ice to an eskimo." Now, I happen to think it's a bit of an insult, s...

For some, this may seem obvious, but a simple model for career satisfaction dawned on me a few days ago as I drove Tonka to ballet camp. S...

After I had taken off Maximus' training wheels, as I was about to send him forth, I said, "Bud, if you want to ride by yourself, ...

I suppose it's as real a metaphor for parenthood as there is... the first moment after you've removed the training wheels from you...

For some, this may be old hat. For others, earth-shattering. I don’t remember it ever having worked so well, so quickly. I was sitting...