It is really good & I highly recommend it for you, well if you want to survive in the future or want to change your world, no matter if you define world as the whole world or just your life.

There are all kinds of topics I took notes on during the first listen from scarsity, value, influance, and a great explanation of  manafestos.

Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

~ Jim Rohn

On January 11th, 2011 I had a self-imposed deadline. I was going to start a podcast where I would share the great nuggets of gold that I had found and collected over time. For years I have gathered quotations, listened to & shared podcasts, books, and other media.That was the day I determined to be more intentional & open in sharing

As of that morning I did not have a plan in place, I had not even settled on a name, but I wanted the start date to be 2011-01-11 or 01-11-11 or 11-01-11 or 01-11-2011.

An idea came to me of calling the clips, quotations, and ideas cubes, because it was a little more interesting than blocks, and knew that I wanted the episodes to be something you could build upon. The domain name was secured, a site thrown up, and the first episode was made & released.

I knew I needed to just start, I was even thinking about a pattern for designing websites I had written on before & I knew that I had previously made podcast episodes similar to what StartingCube was in the past … but … never really released them.

The Big Two

There have been two episodes that have stuck with me the most, 50 and 25.

StartingCube 50 – How to Change – highlights some core reasons why I do StartingCube:
- promote ideas I desire to be spread around
- promote people, media, and products I want to succeed

Of the people who’s work has been shared on StartingCube, not everything they do I agree with, but they do enough good work that I want to continue.

StartingCube 25 – How to Succeed is not the most downloaded of all time, but considering it was released several months into doing StartingCube, it’s interesting how many people have and continue to download it. That episode talks about the steps a person needs to take to achieve their dreams. With that, I view a regular diet of StartingCube as fitting the bill.

Looking Forward

The second episode released was a recall of a story that Dave Ramsey told about the wise advice a billionaire shared with him. As I move forward with StartingCube, my intention is to keep moving forward & improving a little at a time.

Based on the original “how to find the best website for you” plan, I could work a site redesign, but at this point smaller improvements, like an updated About page, is more important move.

The style of episodes have also shifted a little, with shorter clips we are going to look to include an additional clip or quotation. Build upon a theme in each episode. We try to keep them short so that it just sparks a flame that the audience can take and build upon or let it go out. I don’t want StartingCube to lead people a long way each episode and finding a balance there is important.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

[text & image found at Archive.gov]

Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days

For the last hour or two I have watched tv, but keep thinking about this video.

What do I want to try for 30 days?

What do I want to do?

And it just hit me … just in time, about to be day 2.

I’ve been wanting to figure out WordPress Post Formats & find better ways of using them then the crap I see.

The other day I did some searches for advanced Post Formats techniques … nothing. All searches I did, in multiple routs, ended up with either “how to enable” or pretty much the exact same way of doing it.

This month: July 2011 : I am going to spend time every day working with them, learning them, and figuring out some cool ways to use them, so that the end result is that JonathanNation.com will do everything I would normally do on twitter, facebook, or other social media sites.

I’ll still use social media sites simply because I believe in reaching people where they are, but the hub, my personal hub, will be here.

From there, we shall see what happens. Some of the updates will be here, some on AllyNation. All in all, at the end of July I’ll know more & should have a much improved website.

A system where individuals & groups can tell their story and try to get fans to support their creative projects.

With that, There are two projects that I would like more people to fund:

A Board Game

This one is funded, but you can still get a copy & the kickstarter goodies:
Startup Fever – The Board Game
My take on this game is you are competing in the tech startup world to build your business. You can hire programmers, and such & steel them away from other companies/players.

I am looking for a few people to go in with me to get a higher level reward. If I find 1 more person, we can do the Double-Nerd Level, if I find 3 more the Quad-Nerd Level. Meaning everyone would get a copy of the game & the expansion pack.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

~ Albert Einstein

As I read the list, my thoughts were two fold:
- I indirectly learned most of that while in a government school system, but that is not what they were intending
- The Boy Scouts of America: Boy Scout Troop & Order of the Arrow programs seem to be more intentional at developing those skills in individuals

for instance:
(some of Seth’s points that I learned in BSA programs)

• How to focus intently on a problem until it’s solved.
• The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success.
• The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority.
• How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group.
• Project management. Self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people.
• An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more. Forever.
• Most of all, the self-reliance that comes from understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving.

The reason that these elements are so well taught in the BSA programs is that they are designed to set the youth (and really adults) in a safe situation, but outside their comfort zone.

They provide a framework, or sandbox & some systems of safety.

Then lots of freedom.

One thing that could improve the different BSA programs, and similar organizations, is to reminded the adult supervision, and maybe leaders too, of those indirect lessons that are learned through the course of unscripted events & what can seem like chaos.

As to Seth’s other points:

• How to read critically.
• An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientific method, in just about any situation or endeavor.
• Personal finance. Understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage.

They can be learned in the BSA, and other, settings. That was just not exactly my experience. A difference is some teacher needs to be involved and guide the student to these elements. It’s harder for someone to learn to critically read, or to use the scientific method out of chaos.

Past High School

The skills listed are important for big wins in a person’s life, but many don’t learn the skills or develop the taste while in High School.

If you are past your High School years, there is hope.

The biggest thing you have to do is be intentional in your education & gathering of experience. The biggest suggestion I have is to find a mentor, someone to learn from, and a group to be involved with. The mentor may or may not be involved with the group. There might also be advantages to being involved with two rather different groups (one with the mentor, one without).

For some the key will be action. For others it will be learning from others, in person or through media (books, websites, podcasts, etc). Whatever is natural for you, try to add the opposite to your life.

I grew up playing soccer. It’s an ok sport to play, but being outside the game really depends on the atmosphere. World Cup Soccer can be fun, live games … well, lets just say that today I saw some video on ESPN that caused me to look up more online & now I want to make the trip to Portland to see the Timbers play.

First thing that struck me was the crowd singing the national anthem:

Then, on Pardon The Interruption, I saw the tradition of sawing off a slab of a tree for each goal & learned they gave the slab to the person who scored the goal. Here is a video of a ceremony:

In looking for videos and such, I watched some more. Saw a tour of the stadium with Portland Mayor Sam Adams, and read a little of the history of the franchise.

The Timbers Army looks like they make these games very fun. I hope the crowd continues to be large, even if they don’t sing the National Anthem every game, maybe on weekends & other special games.

The slab tradition has been around a long time.

Here is another great video that shares more of the excitement:

So, who wants to plan a trip with me? Maybe I’ll try to swing The Art of Non-Conformity – World Domination Summit (June 3rd-5th 2011) and a game …

In the last couple days people have been posting movie trailers that interest me.

Then I went and looked at a list of what is coming out this year.
Atlas Shrugged: Part One
Captain America: The First Avenger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Thor
The Three Musketeers
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
X-Men: First Class

Then there is a list of movies that I have some interest in, but not enough to even click the link to learn more at this point:

I could see me, or us, going to these, or at least renting them in the future:
Cowboys and Aliens
The Eagle
Green Lantern
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
The Thing

I have learned much from my teachers, even more from my colleagues, but I have learned most by far from my students.

~ Rabbi Hanina (Thou Shall Prosper, p 16)

Big results require big ambitions.

~ James Champy

The show is titled The Community Voice, a show he had not done in a while.

The general idea is to introduce people who are fans, or community members of GSPN to each other.

During the episode we talked about some of my interests, including building the dreams of others & video games and my family, both current and leading to the point of the birth of our girls.

The most interesting part for me is seeing how Cliff thinks of me, and thought of me when we first meet a number of years ago at PodcampNashville 2008.

Here is the episode:

[See post to listen to audio]

Here are three categories:
1. been through before
2. desire to go through
3. ?? unknown ??

1. been through before

Good To Great by Jim Collins
Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
Waking The Dead by John Eldredge
Boundaries by Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
[something by] Thomas Stanley – one of the many I’ve been through before

2. desire to go through
The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question by John G. Miller

3. ?? unknown ??

I am sure there are books that will come out that I jump on, or more importantly, audiobooks. Here are some I am looking for, or area l ready out and might consider:

Jim Collins – succeeding through turbulence – [some media @JimCollins.com]
Jeff Jarvis – Public Parts – about the good from living a out in public and sharing info
Thomas J Stanley – Stop Acting Rich : And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire
Chris Anderson – The Long Tail : Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

All in all I expect to go through 12 to 24 books over the next 12 months. We shall see how well I keep up with those intentions.

A home without equity is just a renter with debt.

~ Josh Rosner

Tonight as I play video games I have been listening to some of their shows, starting with the most recent & going into the past.

Some have been good and others a waist of time, but then I hit this one:

Threats to Liberty in 2010 [ mp3 ]
[See post to listen to audio]

A 35 minute presentation on liberty and generally the Libertarian way of viewing the world.

[this is good]

Longer then their typical show, it had me both rolling and cheering.

I fully expect to re-listen to this sometime in the future & hope you like it too.

Connie & Sheila Talk is a show I follow on a regular basis. In episode 35 they have on Greg and Genny Pitts, so you have four people who I know, like, and respect talking about partnering.

[See post to listen to audio]

I listened to it, liked it, and intend to listen again (while taking notes).

If you want to comment on their show, do it in their show notes.

[a big goal is like] crossing an ocean. Some people try [by themselves], day after day,  … That’s like taking a rowboat across the ocean. It’s exhausting and usually unsuccessful.

Others have given up trying and throw themselves entirely on “relying on God’s grace.” They’re like drifters on a raft. They do nothing but hang on and hope God gets them there.

Neither trying nor drifting are very effective in [achieving the big goals]. A better image the sailboat, in which if it moves at all, it’s a gift of the wind. We can’t control the wind, but a good sailor discerns where the wind is blowing and adjusts the sails accordingly.

~ John Ortberg

It does a great job of talking about ways that wealth are created including:

• invention
• creativity
• hard work

Where I am not sure the core difference between liberals and conservatives is their views on wealth, the topic of wealth creation is well covered within that video.

A couple days ago I stumbled across a link to Newsboys.com/remix

Within an hour I had:

• downloaded all the tracks
• loaded up into an audio editor
• familiarized myself with the sound on each track
• came up with a vision – start with the lead vocal and add in a minimum audio, but still keep a good beat
• generated my first draft

At that point, I really had not listened to the original song, at least not in a few months since my last Zune Pass ran out.

Thursday morning, I upload the song to the contest (this was after a quick email with Greg Seneff, a copyright lawyer, about the rules).

I then listened to both my remix & one of the ones they provided & realized I could improve.

The interments were too low, adding in the female background vocals in one or two parts would add a lot, and some fading of tracks a couple places.

In the end, I came up with this: Way Beyond Myself – Less is More Nation 2

This is a part of a competition, and I would not mind winning, so if you would – go to the page and “vote”.

Also, if you want to hear the first version I did, it can be found on my soundcloud profile.

Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.

~ Unknown, thou some think Eleanor Roosevelt

Awkward

Weird

Strange …. and full of potential.

BUT

As season one went on, it got better and better, with episode 23 – Modern Warfare  [ watch it ] being one of the best half hours of TV I have ever seen.

I do wonder if it is as good without the other 22 episodes to build up (my guess is not). If you’ve not seen any, you can see the last 5 shows on Hulu, or start from the beginning with Netflix, or just order it from amazon since Season 1 DVDs will be released Tuesday.

Season 2 starts off Thursday the 23rd of September.

Looks like we might get Betty White shooting someone with a crossbow.

My DVR is already set to record.

Today he has a great post in a series titled MBA Mondays about the role of a CEO.

It tells of the basic criteria that he evaluates CEOs on:

“A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.”

I tried to shorten that and not lose any meaning, with no great success.

Any organization will falter or fail if someone does not fulfill those three tasks, and they really are keys to success.

Another way to look at it is:

• promote where we are going – general direction
• get the right people on the bus
• make sure the bus does not run out of gas

As far as “all the other stuff that a CEO could do” … that is addressed in the post, and I agree.

Thanks to Fred Wilson for taking the time to share his thoughts to others.

Today I read a post on The Smart Passive Income Blog about the starting out process Pat went through recently.

I have gone through and coached others through the same process, with some exceptions.

Here are some highlights:

Dreamhost

Pat mentions Bluehost, many others rave about them too.

Long ago I looked at all the options equivalent to those two. I read lots of good and negative reviews of all the webhosting options.

Dreamhost won me over with their Virtual Private Server (VPS  or DreamhostPS) option they were developing. At that point I had played with Dreamhost, a client was using them, and liked the systems, but the VPS option meant to me -> if the site gets too big for the shared server (the style all those options are) – Dreamhost had an option I could turn on with a press of a button and not have to move to another system manually.

Both have great affiliate programs – all links to them should be assumed to be my affiliate link – but that is also why they are raved about so much.

Plugins

I use Google XML Sitemaps and a Google Analytics plugin, but I am currently evaluating a couple and not sure which I will use moving forward.

All in One SEO Pack is not needed in my case simply because I use StudioPress themes, which have all the really good functionality built into the themes.

There are some more plugins that are my standard, but this is not the section I really want to spend time on.

Monetization?

The method depends on your end goals.
I wish he had posted more on this topic, but the idea for finding direct advertisers & affiliate opportunities might make me re-open an AdSense account.

Niche Site Content

The Most Important Section.
The reason you go to a website, and return to the ones you do, is the content.

The method for content development he is using is – Shared Journey. This is similar to what Cliff Ravenscraft is doing with The Virtual Assistant Podcast, and many others.

The general idea with Shared Journey is “I am on a journey to learn about ABCD, as I travel, I am sharing what I learn with you.”

Lastly

I love this mindset:

Remember, it’s all about working hard now, so you can reap the benefits later.

With all that said, I look at a pile of little nitch domain names I have & am inspired to do a little with some – I think I’ll start with Krav Maga Ally & know others who could easily do the same.

Thanks again to Pat for all he shares.

It tells the story of how there use to be an Inventing MB – that 10 scouts earned before it went away.

Inventing MB is back and this time the Scouts don’t have to “apply for and receive a U.S. patent on an invention.”

Looking though the requirements, there is some basic knowledge, but what interests me are things like:

• Choose a commercially available product that you have used on an overnight camping trip with your troop. Make recommendations for improving the product, and make a sketch that shows your recommendations.
• Build a working prototype of the item you invented for requirement 6*. Test and evaluate the invention – [including] cost, usefulness, marketability, appearance, and function. Describe how your original vision and expectations for your invention are similar or dissimilar to the prototype you built.
• Participate with a club or team (robotics team, science club, or engineering club) that builds a useful item.

I am thrilled that the Boy Scouts of America is working towards helping those involved in scouting to go though the process of solving problems in the world around them.

These statements are generally what I understand and why I vote the way I vote &  promote both independence & interdependence.

These quotations are sometimes refereed to as Lincoln’s 10 “Cannots” – but it is wildly understood that where the spirit is what Lincoln believed, it is not what he said. These were written in 1916 by William J. H. Boetcker [wikipedia]

Thanks to John “Hollywood” for sending me a reminder of this.

I really like a lot of what he says here.

I bet if you listen through the point where he reads from a JF Kennedy speech, you will listen though to the end.

[found here]

I went to the site and they have this player:

pixture, I could not get the stupid thing to not autoplay, so I ripped it out of this post. Find the original at the Newsboys site.

In looking at it and listening to the songs, I wonder – is this the future of releasing a new CD?

A few features I picked up on:

• you can watch a music video
• you can purchase thorough the widget
• you can listen to the entire album (at least the standard version – there is a deluxe)
• other info though the widget
• easily share on other places, including social media networks

Between sharing anywhere & playing the entire album, this is pretty cool.

Not to mention, from the perspective of the band – they can always turn the widget off.

The other down side for people who might put this on their site is you are giving up some control of your site to some third party. If Newsboys (or really Unik in this case) gets hacked, your site could then show stuff you really don’t want.

That’s a great point, as all 7 of them are.

Not only for photographers, but also pretty much anyone. Here is one more point:

5. They don’t wait for permission. Unless you work for “the man,” you can’t afford to stand around and wait for someone to tell you to go out and shoot. Pick up your camera, go out and make images, show those images. It’s up to YOU to make something happen. Don’t wait around for someone to tell you what to do. Do SOMETHING and do it now.

Just doing what you do best, are passionate about, and there is an economic engine that works for you – is important. Everyone needs practice.

Now look at what I said that is different from the post.
I said “everyone”.

It does not matter if you work for “the man” or not, you need to practice, improve, and increase your ability to produce.

If you are working for “the man,” one thing that can help you is to think of yourself as working for yourself and contracting out your work to “the man.” Ways to increase your skills, might be through training provided by “the man”,  podcasts, volunteering with a Scout program, or even a part-time gig.

The key is what he said – don’t wait for permission.

All the seven habits for photographers are great & I will be working to apply them to my life.

How do we get to a different outcome? Given that you don’t vote? (Russ)

Work to build through the promulgation of ideas and by example: freedom and liberty. If that culture is built, it will be reflected in the political process. If people want to be led by the nose, they will be.

Don Boudreaux on Public Choice, Econtalk.org (1:05:10+)

One day a hare saw a tortoise walking slowly along and began to laugh and mock him. The hare challenged the tortoise to a race and the tortoise accepted. They agreed on a route and started off the race. The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he’d sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race.

He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise, plodding on, overtook him and finished the race. The hare woke up and realized that he had lost the race.

Wikipedia Article – The Tortoise and the Hare

Years ago I went to the Mercy Lounge one Saturday, not for a concert or drinks at the bar (though those were available), but for a time of meeting, learning, and socializing with people involved in or interested in Podcasting. It was an ok event, with one stage, and some break out areas. The best thing I took away from that day was meeting Cliff Ravenscraft in person for the first time and being able to get to know him.

The next year, around the same time, came PodcampNashville2, this time at the Vanderbilt Owen School. That year I live bloged some notes. Lots of rooms, lots more people, lots more fun, and I did not make the mistake I had the first year – I stayed for the after party.

That fall I decided to go to BarCampNashville – many of the same people *work* both events, but I picked up on something additional that applies to both events: most everyone at both events is interested in learning, helping people, building ventures (could be their own business, or their own department), and something involving either better communications or technology.

It was at Barcamp 2009 that I decided that I would just go ahead and start planning each year to be at each event (podcamp and barcamp Nashville) if not any other reason to support such a great community of people striving to grow themselves or a venture to help others.

I’ll tell you more, and probably review some of my past notes (beyond any posts I can find), but today I advise and encourage you to make plans to be at PodcampNashville3. I’ll also be looking to be at a gathering of people the Friday Night before, either somewhere in Nashville, Cool Springs, or Murfreesboro area.

When you decide to attend PodcampNashville3 on March 6th, let me know & I’ll add you to a list of people to remind when more information comes out.

Here is a time laps of them building the ice:

I think I am going to Tivo the game, then watch it later that evening, if you wanna join me let me know.

Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.

~Hebrews 11:1

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

~ Warren Buffet

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

~ Conrad Hilton, founder, Hilton Hotels

I hope that the program achieves the goals that they are striving for in reduction of violence.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

~ Charles A. Beard

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

~ John F. Kennedy

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you are tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired.

~ Robert Strauss

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

~ Robert Townsend

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

~ Michael Jordan

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I’ll make it, I won’t even get close.

~ Henry J. Kaiser

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

~ Derek Bok, former president, Harvard University

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~ William Shedd

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

~ Ayn Rand

Every exit is an entrance to somewhere else.

~ Tom Stoppard

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You can not help the poor by destroying the rich. You can not keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You can not build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

~ Harold Taylor

If you say what you think, don’t expect to only hear what you like.

~ Malcolm Forbes