Brad Barrish

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Brand new board. Newest Powell Peralta deck design, first batch of mini-logo trucks ever produced and Powell Peralta wheels. (Taken with Instagram)

Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review

Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m generally not a huge sports fan. As I have been running and paying much more attention to fitness, nutrition and overall health, I’ve become more competitive. I’m finding ways to appreciate competition in sports, though I might not actually enjoy the activity. Athletes are really interesting to read about though. Getting inside the heads of these super-humans is really fascinating to me. The psychology of it is appealing because it’s so universal and applicable to daily life. 

Formality is more than a dress code, of course. It infects how people talk, write, and interact. It eats through all the edges and the individuality, leaving only the square behind. In other words, it’s all about posture, not productivity.
The end of formality - (37signals)

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Watched this last night and was floored. It’s enough to make any reasonable person feel angry and pretty hopeless. I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to feel after watching this except to get more involved in politics. 

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60 Minutes — Jack Abramoff: The Lobbyist’s Playbook

Without massive overhaul of our current system, we are so completely screwed. Let this be the beginning of the end of the wholesale abduction of our democracy.

WATCH. THIS. VIDEO.

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