One evening a Cherokee elder told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between the two ‘wolves’ that live inside us all.

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One is Unhappiness or Evil – It is anger, jealousy, fear, regret, greed, arrogance, sorrow, self-pity, resentment, inferiority, false pride, superiority, weakness and ego.

The other is Happiness or Good – It is joy, love, hope, serenity, benevolence, peace, empathy, kindness, generosity, truth, humility, faith, strength and compassion."

The grandson thought about it for a while and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed." – Cherokee Elder

/via Kirk Tuck

When cycling to work today I listened to a podcast with Charles Sennott about the Egyptian revolution. I had a revelation. 

The atrocities perpetuated by the government of the United States of America on behalf of our (mostly) corporate interests in the first half of 20th century in South and Central America are mild when compared to those committed in the Middle East in last half.

Facebook rolled out a pretty big upgrade to the Facebook pages. Among the many new improvements you can now post as yourself rather than the page admin. You can also toggle between yourself and the page admin easily, which is pretty slick because it gives you easy access to the Facebook page activity stream and removes a lot of the noise created by your user. There are a few ways to toggle, but the most obvious is found on the right of your Facebook page. See below. 

 

Here’s how you change the setting to post as yourself on your Facebook page. First go into your Facebook page settings. See below.

Next select “Settings”. Uncheck “Posting Preference”.

 

Voila. Now I can be personal when I respond on the Facebook page wall without using ~Aaron in every post.

I am assigning “Getting Things Done” by David Allen as required reading at MindTouch.

However, Amazon is only willing to sell me three copies of the book. What am I missing here? Can someone explain this to me?

I recently met Jason Levin at a dinner with David Allen of “Getting Things Done” fame. Jason is the founder and CEO of Dos Gringos, Inc. Jason is gregarious and affable and his company Dos Gringos is a fantastic success story. They also happen to be the largest supplier of sunflowers in the country. The sunflower happens to be Tara’s favorite flower. I shared this with Jason and he suggested that we should tour his facility in Vista, CA. Tara’s birthday was this last Friday and with Jason’s help I organized a birthday surprise for Tara. A tour of Dos Gringos!

 

It was so cool! The people were all incredibly friendly. The facility was amazing. They can cut 125,000 sunflowers a day. Also, at full production speed they can make 6,000 bouquets an hour!

Posted throughout the facility is the Dos Gringos mission and vision statements. I really liked this.

While we were touring the facility Susie, the Dos Gringos Special Projects Lead, was filling our car with gorgeous arrangements. It was amazing!

Thank you Jason, Joan, Susie and all of Dos Gringos for the wonderful and memorable birthday surprise. You’re all awesome.

photo © 2010 Aaron Fulkerson | more info (via: Wylio)Wylio.com is awesome. It’s a search engine for CreativeCommons images. I love it! And yes that is a really crappy photo of me with Vice President Joe Biden.

Eight by wolf. Another chart from Tufte’s “Beautiful Evidence”. I love this book!

This is literally the chart that got John Gotti Jr acquitted. It shows the crimes of the seven witnesses used by the prosecution. Edward Tufte includes it in his book “Beautiful Evidence”. Note: “pistol whipping a priest”.