Key stakeholders in a decision need to decide effectively and commit to their choices. To borrow a phrase from Bill Walsh, a leader who coached the 49ers to 3 Super Bowls, strong leaders need to "commit, explode, recover," which means committing to a plan of attack, executing it, and then reacting to the results.  A team crippled with indecisiveness will just cause individual efforts to flounder.

"We are creating virtual communities and then by our very own actions gentrifying them!" -- thesis: alpha geeks are the gays/hipsters/artists of online communities

"creating a culture of biking to work in every state is essential to fixing America's oil woes"

"The CEO cannot shout or fire the website back up. The CFO cannot account, control, or audit the website back up and the Chief Counsel cannot sue it back to life. The CMO, if there is one, and their entire marketing & PR team will not spin a website back

"In defense of creative loafing" on unemployment

what I been sayin' ... let's get old school on marriage

'“That was our breakout hit,” said Olde English player Adam Conover.' Are we going to start seeing small groups of short video producers start acting like bands?

Tim defines AnnArboredom and rails against it's nostalgia fetish

Site with many vector generic and corporate logos in vector form.

Great commentary on conspiracy theory in American culture

"if your motivation isn't to make something meaningful, if you don't understand what it is to yearn for the creative impetus that is the core driver of interesting, meaningful, innovative work, or if your motivation is a big pile of money that won't ever

Class divide emerging in social software space Facebook attracts teens: hegemonic, upper-middle class, upwardly moble; MySpace attracts teens: marginalized, subculture-identified, lower economic status;

It's nice seeing companies with policies that treat their employees like adults...

Nice one about hipster ironic adoption of working class culture and gender

"...of course hipsters and urban planning go together, after all both are quintessentially middle class pursuits. The hipster is fundamentally culturally insecure and pursues an ever cooler subculture, and the urban planner is a technocrat, seeking to obt

"university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willi

Great blog post about an Australian artists response to the growing popularity of Christian fundamentalism in Australia.