By: Mary Mims on November 9, 2019
When my daughter was young and she wanted something that I told her we could not afford, she would simply reply, “just go to the ATM, Mom”. To my young daughter, born in the early 1980s, money was something that came out of the machine with the press of a few numbers, not something you…
By: Wallace Kamau on November 9, 2019
Please refer to my Earlier November 2nd Blog post.
By: Nancy VanderRoest on November 9, 2019
The Four is a raw book about the four tech giants that play a major role in today’s society. I found it interesting that the author related these four companies to the Four Horseman in the Bible. I also thought it fascinating that the author noted that these giants exist because of consumer demand. The…
By: Karen Rouggly on November 8, 2019
I admit it – I read this book cover to cover. While I realize that we don’t generally have time for that (and I don’t usually), I made time for this book this week. I found myself gripped each night and felt like I couldn’t put it down. I can’t tell if it was the…
By: Rhonda Davis on November 8, 2019
Reading books like The Four, leave me exhausted. Not only is it frustrating to consider the rate of change we experience every day, but I am also fatigued by the expectation this places on me as the consumer. I am left feeling like a refugee in my own homeland, an exile in what David Kinnaman…
By: Sean Dean on November 7, 2019
I do not have anything witty or inspiring to say about any of these companies. I had planned on writing about how I fell out of love with Apple and found my way to open source software with its welcoming of all users. But the more I wrote the more it felt like I was…
By: Tammy Dunahoo on November 7, 2019
15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it. 16 Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from…
By: Jenn Burnett on November 7, 2019
Do you remember the revulsion you felt when you first learned where meat came from? That visceral reaction is how I felt reading through Scott Galloway’s The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The food on your plate becomes unappetising when you learn it once had a face. (Perhaps more so…
By: Andrea Lathrop on November 7, 2019
Scott Galloway, author of The Four, offers his lessons for navigating the new reality we are all living in with Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google. I am better informed and can be a more conscientious consumer with this peek behind the curtain. I thought of Newport’s reference many times – that these kinds of innovators…
By: Harry Fritzenschaft on November 7, 2019
Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business’s, argues in his book, The Four: the hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, that ‘The Four’ have amassed abundant influence upon our lifestyles to enable our dependency upon them while dominating their growing share of the consumer market. While ‘The Four” have…
By: Steve Wingate on November 7, 2019
When my muscles get tired from playing soccer I can almost hear them telling me to STOP working out so hard! But, it’s then that I am probably getting stronger. When my fingers are stretching too far to reach the c#add-9 chord, I can almost hear them telling me STOP reaching so far. But, as…
By: Harry Edwards on November 7, 2019
As I write this there are no less than seven stories in this morning’s paper lambasting the intemperate excesses of large companies that have resulted in large scale privacy loss, antitrust violations and billions worth of lost capital. Not surprisingly, Facebook, one of the four horsemen in Scott Galloway’s book The Four: The Hidden DNA…
By: Greg Reich on November 6, 2019
Can a desire for self-improvement, as well as, a desire to deal with the pressures of a stressful job lead to impacting some of the most influential leaders in America? It can if your name is Shane Parrish a former cybersecurity expert for a Canadian intelligent agency. His desire to learn how to improve his…
By: Nancy Blackman on November 6, 2019
“I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said. Thuli Madonsela”[1] After having my first discovery session, I realized that I needed to pay attention to what was not being said. “It demands that we ask if there is another reasonable explanation for the events that have occurred.”[2] My mixed Korean…
By: Jer Swigart on November 4, 2019
There is a four-stage framework that my team has uncovered that sets the template for how many white, evangelical church, academic, and non-profit leaders approach local and global missions. It goes like this: Notice, Diagnose, Solve, and Walk Away. Notice: Because of the geographic and relational distance between white evangelical institutions and impacted communities, we’ve…
By: Dylan Branson on November 4, 2019
Thinking is a complex process. How we get from A to B says a lot about the ways our minds work. As was mentioned in Stuart Sim and Borin Van Loon’s book, Introducing Critical Theory, “How we arrive at value judgments, and, indeed, whether we can arrive at value judgments, are now at least as…
By: Shawn Cramer on November 4, 2019
Shane Parrish has created a thoughtful community at Farnum Street delivering content about content, thinking about thinking, learning about learning, and wisdom about wisdom. He hails the mission statement “Upgrade Your Thinking.” From a simple blog to now active online community with over 250,000 participants, Parrish curates and engages his community about epistemology and decision…
By: John Muhanji on November 4, 2019
We are living in a time of selflessness and confusion. It is coming out clear that there is nothing new under the sun but instead confusion from reigns the present. Friedman, an ordained Rabbi, describes this act of our confusion as he writes, “A society cannot evolve, no matter how much freedom is guaranteed, when…
By: Darcy Hansen on November 3, 2019
Carved into a cemetery headstone, directly under a person’s name, are the dates of their birth and death. These dates are separated by a dash. Many have waxed on poetically about the importance of that dash, for it represents the entirety of the persons life. It’s the space where they lived and breathed, rested and…
By: Chris Pollock on November 3, 2019
Introduction: Margaret Wheatley Over the last few years I have been intrigued by the thought-provoking attitude of Margaret Wheatley, best-selling author and world-renowned leader of leaders. I have read a few of her books and listened closely to her ‘unshakeable conviction that leaders (for the way forward and on behalf of the human spirit) must…
