Beautiful Buys in Support of the Wise

I just bought this in support of this.
I’m a sucker for beautiful design. 

Leopard: Feature Love: Quick Look

The single greatest improvement to an operating system ever.

 I don’t even open half the programs I used to. 

If I need some info from inside a file, I just highlight it and click the spacebar. I can see full files from Word, Excel, Images, Pages, Keynote, Powerpoint, whatever….All without ever opening up the applications.

Quick Look is better than sliced bread. 

Just checking in on the Power of We…

Kiva is amazing. Microcredit is all the rage. All the kids are doing it.

Here’s 5 individuals whose lives and the lives of their families will be transformed by a few bucks from overseas.

Check out The Power of We portfolio from a Kiva party that Erin and Neeraj hosted last summer.

Beautiful Devastation

what happens when you put out a fire in a minnesota winter?

My friend Phil takes a beautiful set of pictures. 
 

Formerly of Tak Photo

Soon to be of: Philip Hussong Photography 

You should get married so you can have your photo taken by him. 

I love this. I wonder how much apple paid for the placement….

Hasta la Vista-link from kem

It’s funny to…

re-read the things I write in the middle of the night. 

Banking on unproven people.

Guy Kawasaki talks about why Kiva works. 
I love Kiva. I think it’s one of the most important tools that the average person has to make a concrete difference in someone’s life. Micro-lending is a good thing. I Kiva. Do you?
Others are doing it. But few with the ease of participation that Kiva has.Do it.  

Innovation vs. Renovation Part 3 – innovation is harder…

Innovation is essential to life. Whether it’s using logs to move 2000 pound rocks to build pyramids or harnessing the power of the wind to turn on the lights…Innovation makes life better.

It transforms our surroundings. It qualifies efficiency. It affirms our reflection of God. After all, the first thing he did was create something out of nothing. That’s innovation. 

Innovation is hard, though.

It stretches us to think in ways that no one else has.   It’s the charge to look in the negative space and discover what’s missing. To solve problems most people don’t even recognize as problems.

Innovation is:

1. Solving today’s problems
2. Harnessing tomorrow’s possibilities
3. The challenge to change and grow

Innovation requires:

1. Anticipation
2. Analysis
3. Intuition
4. Creativity
5. Adoption

Love Revolution

When Jesus was around, he did most of his ministry on foot going to people rather than bringing people to him. He used meaningful stories and illustrations that made sense and were relevant to their lives. The temple was reserved for the holy, the pure, the godly to enter into God’s presence.

Isn’t it interesting that the modern church in America is leaning towards the opposite scenario. We open the doors of the church to the unholy and make them come inside our house, stepping out of their comfort zones and their natural settings and ask them to watch our media clip and listen to our story and then join the folds. We have a hard time walking the hillsides of our communities to meet people in their own natural settings. We tend to make them come to us…

That’s one of the reasons I love the idea of Love Minneapolis. 

We’re not going to tell you where you’re going. You just show up because you want to serve. Because you want to love. Or maybe because you’ve read a little something about Jesus and you just want to be a little more like him.

Whatever the reason. Whatever your hope. Whatever you want out of it. We hope you’ll see that a love revolution doesn’t take much. Just a few people willing to say, “I want to do something.” 

This made me smile.