Quotes of My Friend’s Fathers

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Last week I spent some time recounting my favorite quotes from my Dad. I also wrote up a few quotes from the fathers of my favorite writers on the Internet. Today I’m taking a look at some of my favorite words of wisdom from the fathers of my friends.

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Cubicle Warrior World Cup Edition

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What I love about the World Cup – and indeed any mass market sport is the simple beauty of it. Athletic competition, even if you don’t particularly care for the sport is a wonderful abstraction of the best of the human condition. No one on any of these teams is on them for anything but their skill. It doesn’t matter who their parents are, how much anybody likes them, what they believe in or who they date. All that matters is that they can play ball at the highest level. There’s a true simple beauty in that.

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Lessons from the Dad’s of the best of the Blogosphere.

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The Blogosphere is an interesting place filled with interesting people. A while ago I asked a bunch of internet celebrities about the lessons that they learned from their dads. Most took the time to respond and I’m very thankful they did.

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Lessons from Dad

It’s Father’s Day this week so the focus will be on advice from Dear Old Dad. Today starts off the theme with one-liners from my Dad. And if you know him, you are certainly smiling. Dad certainly knows how to turn a phrase.

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Sesame Street Explains Madoff Scandal

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Brilliant casting of Cookie Monster as Bernie.

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Free Body Diagram

“Look to your left. Look to your right. These people will not be here when you graduate.” That’s what the dean of engineering told us in the summer of 1996 at Virginia Tech. It wasn’t original. That spiel has been delivered to freshman engineering classes by deans since my dad’s day. And I can only assume they’re still giving that speech. I hope so. It’s one of those things that you take with you.

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7 Useless and Counterproductive Things I do Everyday

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Behavoiral Economics is the study of emotions on economic decisions. It arose because, despite what many of us would believe, we humans don’t always act in our best efforts. In fact, it seems like our greatest shared pastime is indulging in acts which will destroy us, damage us, or at the least – waste our precious resources.

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Weekend Warrior – June 2010

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My regular readers know that every Friday I have the Friday Video – sort of like casual day on Fridays at work. Sometimes they’re funny. Sometimes they are a distraction. Sometimes, even, they are poignant. This week I’m trying something a little different. I’ve joined the So Long, Fat Ass Weekend Warrior Challenge. This is because of my own Operation Spare Tire.

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Solitude and Serenity

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If by practicing a bit of solitude now and then can enable creativity, grant us focus, generate appreciation and spark achievement is it a stretch to think it might just lead to serenity as well?

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Jim Cramer’s Meltdown

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This is a little dated but Jim went ballistic in righteous outrage. This is why I still watch Cramer despite the smear-job of the likes of the Daily Show and others who never made a single red cent investing.

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