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NYC and Austin May 2007
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New Pics April 2007
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Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business
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PISTOLERA If I can get some strength back (and get some cases prepped), I really want to check out Pistolera tomorrow. They're playing once during the day at the Mexicarte Museum and later at the Copa.
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Great photo from New Orleans . This is taken in front of my favorite bar in all of New Orleans, Ms. Mae's. By the way, the bar is open for business.
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Finally, a Ton of Pictures Albuquerqu e, Austin and New Braunfels
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Santiago , reading the New Yorker and wearing his Che t-shirt, just like some sort of East Coast liberal.
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Exercise for School This morning, I took a taxi to Bookpeople to do some long overdue browsing. I really haven't done anything personally indulgent since starting school a couple of months ago. Indulgent really is the word. I took the taxi because I was a bit constrained for time due to a meeting scheduled with my mentor later in the day and wouldn't be able to make it on my bike and get back in time, but it felt really luxurious to let someone drive me around. Just call me Ms. Daisy. When I got to the bookstore, it took me a long time to settle into a normal pace of bookstore browsing. I think I am so used to being pressed for time and approaching every task with a clear-cut goal, so I just walked the aisles, looking around at what the rest of the world looks like on a Autumn day at 9:30 in the morning. I know that I do my best thinking before noon, so I rarely do anything but work in the mornings. It felt strange to have my thinking brain primed but only using it to o...
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Something I Need to Keep In Mind... "Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." – Steve Jobs, in a graduation address at Stanford in 2005.
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Blasts From The Past Our good friend Jason just sent us some photos from about a year and a half ago. What a difference the days make. In this first picture, there are a couple of notable points. First, a friend once commented that in every picture Cassie, Santiago and I are in, we always seem to be gazing upon Santiago. This picture is no exception. But what a little butterball he was! Also, I still own that baseball cap (one of the few things I took with me when we fled the city). That's our way cool apartment on St. Mary Street. That place will go down in history as one of my favorite apartments of all time. Here is Jason with Santiago We were going to go swimming at the Pocket Pool but rain cut our trip short. We ended up at Cafe Luna, catching up on things before Jason took off to get his Masters in Urban Planning in California. Who would have known how things were going to get turned upside down a couple months later? Here's me and The Boy He seemed so much bigg...
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"Coin-Operated Boy" by The Dresden Dolls Most people who know me have had to endure my fascination with the Dresden Dolls. They have been described as "Brechtian Punk Cabaret," and I think this video has a lot to do with that. Music videos have long been an unappreciated art form. The Dresden Dolls have really leveraged the visual aspect of their work to create some very entertaining material. I will post the more vitriolic "Girl Anachronism" next.
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The Acton Experience

I haven't been posting my work in a while.   Not because I haven't been working, I assure you.   The load is really starting to ratchet up.   Each week's assignment is taking me about 10 - 15 hours to complete.   On top of a full work load.   Ouch.   Here's a sample from Week 4: The Goal   Here's a novel idea: take a cutting edge economic concept called The Theory of Constraints and write a novel about it.   It's just crazy enough that it works.   A manager turns his factory around, saves his marriage and home life and throws out a bunch of management dogma in the process.   It's a quick read and the fact that it's written as a novel makes it far more interesting than a typical b-school textbook.   Virtually any process that creates a product could benefit from Eliyahu Goldratt's ideas.     Processes 101: Introduction This is the first wave in introducing the ideas behind processes, essentially a discrete set of activities that can be both illustrate...
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The Acton Experience - 7/10/06

I am still working hard to get caught up on my readings for Acton.   If pre-matriculation is an omen of the work load I can expect, I am going to be in for a busy year.   Here's what the June 12 assignment looked like: Your Entrepreneur’s Toolkit This was a how-to for creating a journal to document all of the work that you do during the course.   There are columns for "lessons learned" and "what I still need to learn."   Basically, it's an approach for capturing your notes on your assignments in an organized and concise manner. The Entrepreneurial Journey: Course Introduction An overview of the curriculuum involved in the Entrepreneur's Journey course: Introduction, Opportunity Analysis, Gathering Resources and Launching, Entrepreneurial Growth and Harvesting the Rewards. The Ultimate Fit Checklist This is the framework developed at Harvard Business School for evaluating business opportunities.   The framework is: Opportunity (What are the Key Success Fa...
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