Category Archives: Flipped Perspective

Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Apply Flipping Perspective

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 118 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  133,000 Applying Flipping Perspective As “human doings” we quickly move our day to day actions to habits or tacit behaviors. Habits are those things we … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Flipping Perspective

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 117 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  133,000 Flipping Perspective “When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Conceiving – The Cosmos of a New Venture

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 116 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  132,000 The Cosmos of the New Venture One of the challenges of the entrepreneur is learning how to make progress even when feeling lost in … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Applying Conceiving

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 115 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  132,000 Applying Conceiving Starting a new venture is an experiential process as Sarasvathy describes. The good news about the effectual … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Conceiving

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 114 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  132,000 Six years ago, I wrote a draft of a book that was a takeoff on Rilke’s Letters to a … Continue reading →

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Timeless Way of Building

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 107 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  127,000 I love Christopher Alexander’s Timeless Way of Building. I love the form and the content.  Alexander wrote the book … Continue reading →

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From My Chair: Vacation from History

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Skip Walter

“All civilizations face their fragilities. Many residents of the world’s wealthiest nations, particularly Americans, have felt fortunate to live through a period largely insulated from shocks and disruptions. This “vacation from history” enabled many to become accustomed to living at … Continue reading →

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A Product is a Conversation

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Skip Walter

I am in conversation with hundreds of products a day.  From my Fitbit to my iPhone/iPad to my desktop computer to my Honda CRV, I converse with the products in my life.  Alexa Show takes that even farther by letting … Continue reading →

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Lifelet: Existential questions in the Age of V

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Skip Walter

In our long ago Duke University dorm discussions, another philosophy exam question was thrown out.  A professor in the final exam asked just one question “Why?”  There were only two acceptable answers to get an “A”: Why not? Because Fueled … Continue reading →

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Ground Hog Days in the Age of V

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Skip Walter

I laughed at my liberal arts colleagues coming back from their Freshman philosophy class with this quote: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus … Continue reading →

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