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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Commentary on Whats Wrong With Downtown Phoenix
Last week Tyler Hurst made a post on what’s wrong with downtown Phoenix. There is certainly one thing he got absolutely right, “Downtown Phoenix isn’t about businesses, buildings or parks. It’s about people. Those that live, work and/or play here [...]
Posted in Community, Personal
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, downtown, economic development, motivation, phoenix
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Incentives Kill Creativity
The other day I had jotted down about wanting to talk about incentives killing creativity, because something someone said pissed me off. I put it in my GTD list and forgot about it. I came back today to [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity
Tagged Creativity, incentives, performance, Productivity
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Arizona Has a Rich History
I hear from people new to Arizona often complain that it is a new city without the deep history they are used to back East where they migrated from. The truth is that Arizona has a fabulous history that pre-dates [...]
What Do You Spend Your Time On?
Some where in the human body is this switch that indicates if you aren’t pouring tons of resources in the form of buildings and money into something to reach a large number of people that you can’t have an impact [...]
We Have To Stop Laughing At California Now
We can’t make fun of the Terminator Govenenor or bad discussion making in California for much longer. As currently we are knocking on their doorstep to take over first place as the state with most fiscal problems. The down [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Education
Tagged arizona, california, economic development, economics, participation, policy, politics
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Komodo Dragon Heaven
Get out and explore one of the great resources in Phoenix. The Phoenix Zoo, one of the top five rated zoos for kids in the United States. Starting Nov 26th Zoo Lights opens up a holiday tradition for many residents. [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank
Tagged dragons, Gangplank, komodo, phoenix zoo, zoo, zoo lights
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Last week at the Arizona Enterpreneurship Conference (AZEC), a panel from AZ TiE titled “Who Got Funded and Why?” talked for nearly an hour about the dynamics of starting up. Steve Swedler, Chief Product Guy at Gangplank asked finally stood [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank, Integrum, Personal, Startups
Tagged angel funding, authority labs, date designer, funding, Gangplank, held, Integrum, simple seating, vc
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The Empire Continues To Grow.. Is It Evil?
There was recently a somewhat glowing review of the ASU downtown campus in the Arizona Republic. However, I think if you look at the numbers, they might be more scary than uplifting. They seem to want to brag about a [...]
Music Memories
Today as I was coming into work Dead Kennedys – Police Truck came on the radio. It took me down memory lane so to speak. I had rush of feelings of my youth days where punk ruled the world. I [...]
Developer Ignite 2: Location, Location, Location
Here is my presentation from Developer Ignite #2: Location Location, Location…
Abstract: Global Positioning System (GPS) has been around for fifty years, but with the rise of GPS enabled mobile platform it has just started to gain real traction. The Internet [...]
