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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 Great American Road Trip with our
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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 other than these two insights into his
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eCommerce Hippie
After this week, I’ll be gone for the next 2 weeks. Being an eCommerce Hippie.
Maybe I should explain. Back in February, I was looking at the schedule of conferences for the next several months, and noticed that Internet Retailer was in Chicago at McCormick Place June 9-11. I attended this conference last year in San Jose and we were in the midst of making plans for Doba to exhibit for the first time since it’s the worlds largest e-retailing show. I then noticed that eBay Live was just over a week later June 19-21, again at McCormick Place in Chicago, and again, we were making plans for Doba to exhibit–for the 5th time at eBay Live.
That very day, I saw a blog
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Whirlwind
Next week is a whirlwind.
I head to California Monday morning with Blaine for some Doba meetings Monday and Tuesday. I get back to SLC at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday night and drive directly to Logan. Wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. I’m presenting on Adventures in Entrepreneurship for Partners in Business as part of the business school there. It’s the 24th Annual Information Technology Seminar part of the Partners in Business series. (BTW, since I converted to an Apple Fan Boy a little over 3 years ago, I’ve never been more proud of my accomplishments. My time slot at the seminar is officially the “Apple Computer Company Distinguished Lecture.” Whoo-hoo!! )
I get done at 9:30 a.m. and jump in the Mini to try to get
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Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
I’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks. Had some travel and lots to do.
One of my flights was on SouthWest, and in their Spirit Magazine they had an article about Randy Pausch. Randy, 47, is a Carnegie Mellon professor that was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer last fall. He responded to this diagnosis with an inspirational “last lecture” to students and faculty. The video has become one of YouTube’s most viewed clips. It’s just over an hour long. Watch it. Even as busy as I have been, it was well worth my time. Let’s all use Randy as inspiration and find ways to achieve our childhood dreams and enable those of others.
PS – When you’re done with the video, read the
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On the Summit
I’m back from my backpacking trip to the Wind River Mountain range in Western Wyoming. You can read a full trip report and see lots of pictures at www.jercore.com
The highlight of the trip for me was clinging to the summit of Fremont Peak:
At 13,745 feet, Fremont Peak is the 3rd highest peak in Wyoming. It’s only 59 feet lower than the highest peak, Gannett Peak, also in the Wind Rivers. I don’t use the term ‘clinging’ lightly either. The wind was gusting over 40 MPH, and there was a sheer cliff just below me. But I wanted to make sure I touched the highest point on that mountain.
This was a big personal accomplishment for me. It’s the highest I’ve ever been
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Jercore Adventures
I’ve found a system that works well to keep me going 110 miles an hour. (should that be 110%? – either way I guess it means going and going all out)
I take at least one, sometimes two, 4-6 day long trips a year. I’ve negotiated with my wife and family so that I can make these trips work. I look forward to these trips as a way to recharge and regroup very much. I purposefully plan trips that long so that I can disconnect from the world, from Doba, from everything really.
One way I make sure that I can really disconnect is that I head out into the middle of nowhere. Places where cell phones don’t work. Dark Spots on the
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