Monday Morning Mojo

This is Grafitti Alley in Ann Arbor. When you walk in, there are spray cans laying around for you to pick up and go at it. And it’s a good thing. Sometimes i have to cut loose and let my freak flag fly, as David Crosby sang in, Almost Cut my Hair, on the Crosby,

When I was in elementary school, I remember a class where a teacher asked us, “Who knows what it means to have a dog’s life?” I raised my hand and was called on. “It means you have everything taken care of for you. All your meals and needs are met. It’s an easy life.” The

Senator Theodore Bilbo, a Democrat from Mississippi was a racist as a matter of religious belief. He was fervent in his desire to prevent the races from mixing in any way, shape, or form. There “is every reason to believe that miscengenation and amalgamation are sins of man in direct defiance to the will of

What is it that pierces our understanding of the world and opens new horizons, especially those we are resistant to yet which mean greater freedom and ability? Have you ever thought you could not do something and when someone insisted you could, you refused to believe? Then, they showed you beyond a doubt that you

All night long my wife is getting texts that say, “Woot Woot!!”  What is this? I am not familiar with this term. So, I looked it up on the holistic brain trust, the Internet. Turns out its origin is ambiguous. One source says it hails from a contraction in Dungeons & Dragons of �wow, loot!�

Fact: Almost 50 percent of the entire edible food items manufactured are never consumed. Google recently released a paper that proposes they dampen sites that contain large numbers of false facts. “We propose using Knowledge-Based Trust (KBT) to estimate source trustworthiness…” Fact: It’s illegal to kill a hedgehog with a machine gun in Britain. The

We get used to silly, nonsensical things… or do we? I am flying out of Phoenix tomorrow and received an email from American Airlines to remind me to check in. Click here, the message says and I do. It tells me that I have come to the wrong website and the flight is being managed

Had a really ineresting conversation with my good friend and bestselling author, Lisa McLeod, the other day. Of course we recorded it! Here’s an excerpt: Seth:  What is the relationship between Noble Purpose and a Grand Challenge? Lisa: A Noble Purpose is why an organization exists. A Grand Challenge is an initiative that will be

My 16-year-old son and I were up until 3am on Sunday morning. It started around 10:30pm Saturday when we both got home from the movies. I saw Interstellar and he saw The Imitation Game, both great flicks. Each of us had seen the other, so we could share reflections on both movies together. We met

Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPrize, is one of my heroes. He is a man of many talents and hastening the benefits of the future is one of them. Today I came upon a story he told of taking Stephen Hawking, the legendary physicist, for a ride. Here it is in Peter’s words: Back in