Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Récompense
We got home Wednesday afternoon from our trip to Paris.
I told you I’d check back on whether we had ‘rewards’ on this trip. To put it in terms of startup exits, we hit a base hit. Didn’t hit a home run, but definitely didn’t strike out either.
Paris is an amazing city. The kids did surprisingly well. We learned some travel tricks. (Rent apartments!! You’ll save 2/3 over hotels, and we ate at least 2 meals a day at the apt and saved hundreds and hundreds in meal expenses.) We ate an authentic Thanksgiving dinner at a French restaurant. We never had one run-in with ‘the rude’ French. I fit in a couple of business meetings. It
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Entreprendre
I think most people would agree that any definition of entrepreneur has to involve some angle about risks and unknowns juxtaposed with rewards.
And in case you didn’t know, the French word Entreprendre, which means “to undertake”, is the root to Entrepreneur.
So in the spirit of risks and unknowns and undertaking–and in the spirit of visiting the country that provided the root to one of the words of the title of this blog–Amy and I are taking Kaitlin (4) and Alex (2) to Paris for Thanksgiving.
Risks? Check. Unknowns? Check. The French? Check. Rewards? I’ll tell you in about 8 days.
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Election 2008
I voted this morning. (for Barack Obama, and here are some of my reasons.)
I didn’t vote in 2000 or 2004. I’d become pretty disenfranchised with the whole process and our political climate. But you know what? If I’m not going to vote in this country, I should just be a man and go live somewhere else (or start revolution 2.0 or something).
So go vote. I’m having an election party tonight to follow the results. Here’s a couple of widgets to follow them yourself.
United States:
Utah:
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Great American Road Trip – 2008 Hanks Edition
Last year Kaitlin announced out of the blue, “I want to go to South Dakota.” We still don’t know where it came from, although we have a suspicion that an episode of the Wonder Pets or Little Einsteins might have had something to do with it.
A few months ago, an Op-Ed in the New York Times proclaimed Goodbye to the Great American Road Trip. Hogwash. I think too many Americans are loosing touch with our country. And keeping touch with our country and our history sure becomes much more possible and intimate if you just get out there and drive through it instead of fly above it.
So this year, we decided to plan our own
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Middle Teton
At the end of last week, a group of 8 of us headed up to attempt to climb the Grand Teton via the Upper Exum Ridge climbing route.
Over Labor Day, the weather in the Tetons was pretty nasty, and when we arrived a couple of days later, the climbing rangers informed us the conditions on that route were in pretty bad shape: verglas, snow, and ice. They said we’d be better off coming back in the winter and climbing the mountain with a proper snow cover (something that is EXTREMELY difficult and dangerous).
So we adjusted our plans and headed up to camp at the Meadows for 2 nights, and
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The Nike+ Human Race
So over the last couple of months, I’ve started to run a little bit. When I was in Japan, I ran around the city, when I was in D.C., I ran around the city. I wanted a way to track my runs, and I found out about the Nike+ system that includes a foot pod that works with your iPod Nano and iTunes to track your time and distance and upload them to Nike+.
After I uploaded my first run, I found out about the Nike Human Race 10k.
Basically, Nike was putting on the World’s largest running event. In 25 world cities, you could go down an run a 10k race on an official course. But with the Nike+
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Helped Others Achieve Their Childhood Dreams
As I was getting back from Japan on Friday (more on that trip hopefully later this week), my friend Chris emailed to tell me that Randy Pausch had passed away. Back in February, I posted a video about Randy Pausch and his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University that he gave called Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
He gave that lecture after finding out he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Subsequently he took the material in his last lecture plus some new thoughts and wrote a book called The Last Lecture.
His lecture and the book are both great and are definitely worth your time. Here’s a guy that I don’t know
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