Category: The Halcyon Days
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
My one beef with the All American Road Trip is that, at its core, it’s built upon seeing things. Over the past 40 hours, I was on a road trip for the annual University of Chicago scavenger hunt, affectionately known as “scav”. [blackbirdpie id=”66137266803847168 “] Our route was to take us from Chicago, through the…
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JDR Gets Down to Business, & HD Takes a Week Off
I will be taking a week off from writing effective today. I’m in the midst of tidying up a business plan for a venture I’m launching with two friends; between finishing that and getting in touch with lawyers and finding developers, a decent marketing/design guy/girl, and getting content for a website together, I’m kind of…
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Excerpt From a Constantly Growing Piece of Fiction
This is the most recent in a long line of excerpts I’ve posted on HD. The working title has heretofore been “Didact”, but I’m now just calling it Jesus, this is getting long. The piece itself is approaching twelve thousand words. And this disturbs me, because I had no intention of writing anything longer than…
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Photos from TEDxUChicago. Photos by JDR.
More will be added over the coming days. Check back. © 2011 JDR Photo. All Rights Reserved.
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What Makes Me
I am an architect of meaning, maker of dreams, fears and futures, a lover of much and a loather of slightly more; I’m an entrepreneur, an undertaker, a fierce adventurer, and a way-finder to boot. I am an ideator. I believe in clarity, despite myself. I simultaneously speak truth to power and seek it. I…
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A Quote About Diversion
I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber…. But on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our ills, I have sought to discover the reason of it, I have found that there is one very real reason,…
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First Reactions to the World Foresight Forum. A Note About Empowerment.
I find the idea of “inspirational leadership” vacuous. The excitement of an individual about a topic or an idea, top-down inspiration, is bullshit. What if I told you that I don’t want someone to tell me what to do or how to think. What if I don’t want someone to precipitate that “inspired”, energized feeling…
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Why Inspirational Speaker-Entrepreneurs Are So Disappointing
An excerpt from my most recent Flyover Geeks post. Read the whole thing here. What is it that makes a charismatic leader? Is it his or her message, or its delivery? Or is it something else, perhaps the inclination of the audience to believe it? In 1978, 918 people died at the Peoples Temple Agricultural…
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Introducing “JDR Found”
For a long time, I’ve used Facebook as a repository for links and photos I find online. After trying to find an easy way to access all the content I posted, to no avail, I’ve decided to stow my findings on a Tumblr blog, which I’m calling JDR Found. There is no real theme to JDR…