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Don’t Blame the Cars, Blame the Urban Planners
People complain about parking a lot. The suburbanite complains that there is not enough parking when there is not an open parking space within 10 feet of the strip mall merchant they want to do business with. The urban champion [...]
Taste Chandler this Oktoberfest
It’s has been a whirlwind of activity this past month as construction on Gangplank 3.0 is getting underway and the widening of Arizona Avenue is coming a end. This weekend is the 3rd Annual San Tan Oktoberfest. It starts at [...]
Political Bites: Lessons from September 11th
What most lasting lesson should Southeast Valley residents take from the events of Sept. 11, 2001?
The lesson we can all learn is that a community united is capable of tremendous things. The human spirit is caring and compassionate and extremely [...]
Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation and Competitiveness
This past April I attended the 96th Arizona Town Hall in Tucson Arizona. The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona serves as background information on the event. The result of the Town Hall was a set of recommendations (pdf). Recently [...]
Posted in AZ, Community, Education, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, economic development, music, phoenix, planning, policy, politics
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If You Play the Numbers Game, You Will Always Lose When Trying to Change the World
Why do we focus so much on attendance numbers when trying to make change? The truth is that numbers can deceive us and give us a false sense of progress. Let me give you an example.
Recently and event was held [...]
The Future, It’s About People..
We have been talking about concepts in software development for the last few years at Integrum getting back to humanity. That the separation of goals and values between developers, product owners and users is out of control. We have executed [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity
Tagged Community, Creativity, Gangplank, Integrum, motivation, theory
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SBR: Linchpin by Seth Godin
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Seth is back. He really gets it right on this one. This is an excellent book to pair with Richard Florida’s Reset. The world and they [...]
Posted in Creativity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, discipline, economic development, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, reading
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The World is Changing and so is our Economy
We might be in the midst of a recession, but I don’t think we have seen anything yet. Most of America is not willing to acknowledge a few key concepts.
1. Things won’t bounce back to where they were, expect recovery [...]
Posted in Community, Education, Personal
Tagged chandler, Community, creatives, Creativity, decay, detroit, economic development, innovation, motivation, phoenix, recession, theory, urban decay
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Political Bites: Mesa Graywater Decisions
Should cities require buildings to incorporate water-saving techniques, similar to what Tucson is doing?
Conservation of water is critical when building cities in the middle of a desert. I am curious if Mesa residents get a credit for helping Mesa fulfill [...]
Posted in AZ, Political Bites
Tagged arizona, Community, mesa, policy, water conservation
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Coworking is a commodity. It is a race to the bottom.
I read “A case against ‘free trial coworking‘” by Alex Hillman from IndyHall and it reminded why I can’t relate to the coworking movement. I purposefully use the word collaborative workspace when talking about Gangplank because implying that there is [...]
Posted in Gangplank
Tagged chandler, Community, Gangplank, innovation, motivation, phoenix, theory
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