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Archive for the 'Random Thoughts' Category

The Velveeta Paradox: A Marketing Conundrum

Friday, November 6th, 2009
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Velveeta Cheese Product
My wife gave me a short list of groceries to pick up on my way home from work last week. One of the items that proved to be elusive was the Velveeta cheese. As I searched up and down the aisles at Safeway I started thinking about the implications involved with where a [...]


Creative Advice: Learn To Go Beyond Trusting Your Intuition

Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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I suppose I have pretty much based my design career on my intuition. Through trial and error I have pretty much stumbled upon a set of concepts that work. While this has served me well, trusting your gut can only get you so far in the business world. If you really want to have an [...]


Random Updates

Sunday, September 20th, 2009
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First of all, thanks to everyone for the comments in response to my post about skipping church. I appreciate everyone’s concern and it is interesting to see how wide of a range my friends have regarding the importance of regular church attendance. If you were wondering, yes, I did attend church today and last Sunday. [...]


Skipping Church Again

Sunday, September 6th, 2009
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Yesterday my son asked me if I was going to church tomorrow. I said “maybe.” He turned to his mom and asked, “Is daddy going to heaven?”
Thinking back to confirmation class in seventh grade I remember the pastor asking us if we knew whether or not we were going to heaven. The result of this [...]


The Science of Creativity

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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I just read an article on the Scientific American website called “An Easy Way to Increase Creativity. The article correctly points out that creativity has a great deal to do with context and outside factors influencing the individual. If you can identify the factors that increase creativity you might be able to increase your chances [...]


A story about a mouse and a bird in a cage.

Friday, July 24th, 2009
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There is a bird in a cage. It can reach its head out of the bars far enough to peck away at the wood of the door. After year’s of pecking it has finally broken through the wood and is free to escape. As the bird leaves its cage it realizes that it no longer [...]


Ten ways to improve your memory of dreams

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
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I have been documenting my dreams at dreamfeedr.com for a couple weeks now and I wanted to share some tips that may help you remember your dreams better. I have no idea if these suggestions will actually work, but if you are serious about trying to keep a dream journal, it can’t hurt. So here [...]


Does Dreaming Affect Creativity?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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I while back I made a post talking about the relationship I have found between how many hours of sleep I get and the quality of my creative output. I try to monitor myself constantly to see if I can find patterns to how I work. When am I at my best? When do my [...]


Ego Surfing: Project Updates

Saturday, April 18th, 2009
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It is relatively rare for me to go ego surfing, but last night I spent some time checking on my various web projects to see where the traffic is coming from. Font Burner is quickly gaining on my Lego camera as one of my biggest hits. Here’s some of the places around the internet sending [...]


Twitter restored my faith in humanity

Sunday, March 8th, 2009
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(First of all, if you are on Twitter, my handle is ade3. If you are on Twitter let me know so I can follow you.)
It is kind of silly to put the weight of the world on the shoulders of something as trivial as Twitter, but that’s what I am going to do. Unlike Facebook [...]




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