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By jjakecox on April 18

“Profit and growth are stimulated primarily by customer loyalty. Loyalty is a direct result of customer satisfaction. Satisfaction is largely influenced by the value of services provided to customers. Value is created by satisfied, loyal, and productive employees.”

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1) I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old.

2) I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health.

3) I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death.

4) All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.

Bradley Cooper is magnetic. He plays Pat. Pat with bipolar disorder who caught his wife Nikki having shower sex with a tenured colleague at the school where they are both teachers, and beat him silly. The dude said, "You should probably leave," when Pat walked in on them. Total douche. 

Pat gets out of the looney bin and decides to commit himself to winning Nikki back. Bad idea. Reads all the books on her syllabus. Hates "The Old Man and the Sea." Thinks Hemingway is an a-hole. Meets Tiffany at a dinner with his best bud Ronnie and her wife, the girl from "Save the Last Dance." What's her name again? She's Nikki's best friend. 

Tiffany is recently widowed, and she's young and pretty and has a history of being a slut, which she's fine with now, because it's part of who she is and who she has been, and she's learned to love all of herself, and to forgive herself and the world for things. Her husband got hit by a car and died. 

Tiffany convinces Pat to enter a dance contest with her. They practice in her studio. (They both live at home with their parents, except Tiffany lives in a detached renovated garage out back.) They learn to move off one another, and their chemistry is believable and true and lovely.

Robert de Niro is Pat's dad. Gambling addict. Runs a sports book to earn money so he can open up a restaurant. The whole movie is a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan -- and it's perfect. The grit stuff, the faith stuff, the city of brotherly love stuff..

God, the whole thing fits together so perfectly..

Not sure which of these would be most helpful for a social media consulting co. with a few clients and a distributed team. Interesting (but maybe not surprising) that task management has blossomed into a super competitive space. 

Asana:

Sandglaz:

From TIME. 

Obviously unicorns don't actually exist. I don't totally know how to feel about this. I feel:

- that this is hilarious

- that it's strange to find something so laughable when there are 25 million people being fed this as fact, and they probably (well, possibly) don't know how laughable it is

- sorta scared for the world

- really pissed off at supreme leaders and propaganda machines 

"How to Start a Startup," by Paul Graham. 

"Startup = Growth," by Paul Graham. 

From somewhere in Mark Cuban's book, "How to Win" :

The best place to raise money is from your customers. 

And Seth Godin says: 

The thing about most cause/welfare non-profits is that they haven't figured out how to solve the problem they're working on (yet). Yes, they are often offer effective aid, or a palliative. But no, too many don't have a method for getting at the root cause of the problem and creating permanent change. That's because it's hard (incredibly hard) to solve these problems...

...Go fail. And then fail again. Non-profit failure is too rare, which means that non-profit innovation is too rare as well. Innovators understand that their job is to fail, repeatedly, until they don't.