Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Establishing a Fair Equity Allocation within a Startup Venture

    A while back, when I was offered an exciting consulting engagement, I had to determine how to establish a fair consulting rate. I did a lot of research, found some excellent resources on the web, and posted some notes on an approach that I adapted to compute a rate that I considered to be fair…

  • Blog What You Love, The Money Will Follow

    I signed an agreement with Newstex yesterday to include the Gumption weblog feed in the collection of online content they make available to their customers: The revolutionary Newstex Blogs On Demand product delivers value-added full-text blog content. Newstex processes blogs in real-time through its NewsRouter technology to automatically tag each blog post with key data…

  • Passion, Knowledge and Wine

    Phil Condit, former chairman of Boeing, and four groups of entrepreneurs gave presentations emphasizing — and exhibiting — passion and knowledge at an Executive Roundtable meeting of the Zino Society last night at The Rainier Club … then we all tasted some wine.  It’s hard to imagine a more winning combination for a successful meeting!…

  • Honor and Consciousness on MLK Day

    Yesterday, I was struck by the multiple interpretations of a poster I saw at the King County Library announcing their closure in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday: [the sign reads: Honor Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday] One interpretation is that the library is closing in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. …

  • The Price of War … and Peace

    The Seattle Times published an article yesterday on "What will war cost? Studies weigh oil prices, lost produtivity, more", based on two recent studies on the topic: "The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years after the Beginning of the Conflict" by Linda Bilmes (The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard…

  • eBay: I Think I Get It

    I always go to the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) Venture Breakfast Meetings; even when the topic doesn’t really excite me, I never fail to make or renew valuable connections with wonderful people during the earlybird networking.  And, I am sometimes pleasantly surprised by a topic and/or speaker(s) being far more interesting than I expected, as…

  • Podcasting Ideas at the ThinkSpot

    Podcasting was the topic for the fourth Idea Day, held last night at a cool meeting space called the ThinkSpot.  Alex Williams and Matt May gave a very informal, informative and interactive presentation on podcasting, the practice of making audio or video files available for subscription via the web, so that one can automatically download…

  • Practicing What I Preach, and Preaching What I Want to Practice

    Inspired by Dan‘s recent comment involving paradox, teaching what we most need to learn, and mobius strips, I recognize that while I strive to practice what I preach, I believe that I more consistently preach what I want to practice.  I am increasingly aware that other people are mirrors for me — when I react…

  • Acceptance, Striving and [In[ter]]dependence

    On New Year’s Eve, I had an existential conversation of significant depth and breadth with a number of friends in our old ‘hood in Libertyville on the tension between accepting ourselves as we are and striving to be better, and between pleasing ourselves vs. pleasing others.  I have been struggling with these dilemmas — consciously,…

  • Bizlove is the Killer App

    I first discovered Tim Sanders, author of the book "Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends", through an article by Glen Ramsbrg on a talk Tim gave at a recent PCMA conference on "Digital Now: Association Leadership in a Digital Age".  The article highlighted the themes of knowledge, networking and…