When Your Culture is Failing You

The best explanation I’ve heard defining what  “culture” is  comes from Seth Godin.  He explains it by simply stating “people like us do things like this.” But what happens when the “this” people like you are doing is killing them.  What happens when the “this” is creating a cycle of unhappiness, hate, stress, poverty, mis-education, or […]

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What is Economic Mobility and the American Dream

I came across a profound video from The Pew Charitable Trust.  This video animates the difference between the two ways of measuring economic mobility: absolute and relative economic mobility.  Take a look. In short, economic mobility is the foundation of the American Dream.  A dream that parents dream for their children and children dream for […]

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Are Video Games Harming Our Kids?

If you knew for a fact that video games were detrimental to the growth and development of your children, would you take them away?  Probably not. Maybe you would limit access, but I think most people treat video games just like sugar.  We know sugar is bad, yet very few people prevent their kids from […]

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