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  • Ben 5:25 am on February 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: family, future, inspiration   

    Freestyle Your Future 

    I freestyle my future every day. If I were to believe in fate, external things would choose my destiny.

    Have the great people in the history of the world left it up to god to carry them?

    Even the most devout religious people can not have felt this way.

    I refuse to believe that they would be pushed and pulled so easily. It is the strength of ones vision that pushes them — the people they need help from to accomplish it are caught in the current they create.

    Believing in fate is easy… if it is outside of your hands you dont need to try. You never have to pivot or try a new approach when circumstances dont line up perfectly, you just accept that you weren’t mean to have what you originally wanted.

    That’s horseshit. You owe your nieces and nephews, if not your children in the future, more.

    Is your legacy going to be stolen by external circumstances, or are you going to freestyle your own future?

    This short post is for my family who have helped me get where I am today and inspire me to always improve and never settle.

    In other news: go for a run. Excercise helps me unlock great ideas sometimes and maybe it will help you too.

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  • Ben 4:40 pm on February 22, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    When to Email from Phone and When to Use Your Computer 

    It seems fairly straightforward, but if you need to send an email that is longer than a paragraph, or if it is for a client, don’t send it from your phone.

    • The signature will look unprofessional
    • You will make typos
    • You will trade brevity for clarity

    There is something about this format that influences me at least to write things in a less effective manner. Maybe its the fact that I wrote it with my thumbs, whereas every serious piece of writing I have done since I learned handwriting in grade school was done on a full size keyboard.

    The medium influences the art, so be careful which medium you use when.

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