Most of us cannot go somewhere on the ground where all our people and our perfect lifestyle exist. We must find that psychically — call it our “global niche”.
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Psychic location independence
Posted in American culture, culture, friendship, identity, society, women, tagged activism, Angelique Kidjo, author, Babbo, Beat Generation, Beatnik, Benin, Beninese, Berkeley, Berkeleyan, Brooklyn, Colum Sheehan, designer, digital citizen, digital nomad, digital nomadism, early adopter, East-West, East-West medicine, French, global citizen, global niche, Guido Cruz, hipster, human rights, interactive media, iPad, iPad app, iPhone, iPhone app, Leslie Dann, lifestyle design, LIP, Lisa Oz, location independent, Location Independent Professionals, location-independence, Lorna Graham, Manhattan, Mario Batali, Mehmet Oz, multimedia, multimedia producer, New York, New York Times bestseller, novelist, professional, psychic, radio producer, The Ghost of Greenwich Village, Thrilling Heroics, United Nations, United Nations Radio, war crime, writer on May 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Passion plays
Posted in American culture, culture, history, identity, society, taboo, women, tagged activism, alternative, anger, angry, assimilation, Barbie, belief, belief system, Berkeley, Boy Scouts, boycotts, Brady Bunch, childhood, children, countercultural, counterculture, Dialogue2010, Elmira Bayrasli, Facebook, Free Speech Movement, Girl Scouts, immigrant, integrity, lifestyle, marijuana, McDonald's, military, mindset, nostalgia, nuclear proliferation, passion, PC, politically-correct, righteous, righteousness, self actualization, status quo, Turkish, un-PC, United Farm Workers, upbringing, weed, whitebread on March 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Most of us would agree that passion fuels our aims better than discipline or elbow grease alone. Passion’s dark side — anger — may be the best defense of our identity, and a future that looks like us.
Single-serving soufflé
Posted in American culture, culture, friendship, society, tagged activism, Alaska, Belorus, cake, censorship, chocolate, crowd pleasing, cyberattack, cyberwarfare, DDoS, Evgeny Morozov, Facebook, Florida, Georgia, Germany, global affairs, India, Internet, mainstream, Malaysia, microwave, retro, Russia, social networking, souffle, summer, sync point, TED Fellow, TED Global, Twitter on August 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Cupcake-community activism. Dog days of summer may not be the best time to come together to solve the world’s heavyweight problems but it’s a good time to master souffle-for-one.
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