From the monthly archives:

January 2011

New Balance is awesome

January 31, 2011

I have been buying sneakers and boots from New Balance for a few years. I love the shoes. They fit me well. And I love the customer service. I buy from a New Balance company website. They used to be nbwebexpress.com but are now www.shopnewbalance.com. I’ve written about this retailer in the past. http://adamschorr.com/2009/10/22/kudos-to-the-folks-at-nb-web-express/ http://adamschorr.com/2009/11/23/more-kudos-to-nb-web-express/ These […]

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On impermanence

January 20, 2011

Ideas and concepts are permanent. Nothing else is. We are all going to die. Hopefully after a long happy healthy life. But we are all going to die. It’s just a question of when. Life is impermanent. Money is impermanent. Relationships are impermanent. Perhaps the trick is just to accept this and stop trying to […]

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On happiness and need

January 18, 2011

Perhaps one of the hardest things for a person to accept is that he or she cannot control the universe. I know we all understand this intellectually, but emotionally it is very difficult to accept. We plan, we act and we experience the effect of those actions on our lives in a way that suggests […]

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Play your note

January 18, 2011

The world is a strange symphony. Though there be billions of instruments, it sounds strange if one of them doesn’t play. You are here. Play your note. It might be off key. But without it, the world doesn’t work.

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Jump in

January 17, 2011

Life is scary. Some of our fears are overblown by a psyche run amok. But others legitimately reflect the state of affairs in the world. Life’s question is not about whether there is danger. The question is how to deal with it. In our quest to avoid being trapped by that which we fear, I […]

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Two types of inspiration

January 3, 2011

It seems to me that there are two ways to inspire: by changing minds and by changing facts. Inspiration by Changing Minds This is about getting people to think differently. One approach is to frame the situation differently. Attempts to change the lexicon fall into this camp. Our business isn’t in deep shit, we have […]

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