Archive for the 'Causes' Category

South By Southwest Interactive 2010 – Vote for Brilliant Life

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Part of what I’ve been doing since changing jobs back in October 2008 is helping my boss move forward with a non-profit that he’s been working on for the last few years. The name of the organization is Brilliant Life, and the goal of the organization is to improve lives and change technology by providing [...]

The Finite Skeptic

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

I’ve been re-reading Orthodoxy, bit by bit, over the last few weeks and I came across a passage that continues to be just about the greatest thing I’ve ever read on paper1. If I feel so strongly about it, why wouldn’t I share it here.
“But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely [...]

Maybe Next Time, a Smile

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

So I have another post up on the Compassion blog. It’s called Maybe Next Time, a Smile, and you can find it here. An excerpt:

I stood in the courtyard playground of that child development center in Bonao, hours outside of Santo Domingo and less than a day after arriving in the Dominican Republic (DR), and [...]

Vote for Compassion!

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Fellow Compassion employee Chris brought this to my attention.
Compassion has been nominated for the MySpace Impact Awards, along with Kiva and Mercy Corps. Far be it from me to tell you what to do, but you should go to MySpace and vote for Compassion. Once per day until the 24th of January, 1930’s Chicago Democrat-style1. [...]