“This life…is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it; the process is not finished but it is going on. This is not the end but it is the road… — Martin Luther

Steve Jobs on corporate culture:

“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.”

How many institutions, organizations, and causes lose good people due to frustration about bad ideas and pet projects being favored ahead of good ideas?

The kind of people who are driven to excel in their fields, those who sacrifice deeply in order to contribute significantly to their world through their work are rarely motivated by money. No price is worthy of their life’s calling. To make an impact, to succeed in a meaningful way is their pursuit and their reward.

Such passionate innovators have little patience for an environment that values playing it safe over playing to win. They feel little loyalty toward those who are not loyal to the task at hand.

Why?

Because winners don’t like playing for losers.

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With the coastline altered and the remains if the city hurried beneath mountains of dirt, Ephesus was lost for hundreds for years. Now, archeologists are excavating the impressive ruin. The majestic structures and ornate artistry discovered here portray a rich and powerful metropolis that was once the second largest city in the Roman Empire.

They don’t make it like this anymore…

Joel, this is Marty. I’m calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone.

Martin Cooper, speaking the first words ever said over a mobile phone. A Motorola engineer, Martin used his newly invented device to call Joel Engel, a rival at AT&T, on April 3, 1973. Many would say that the mobile phones have been rude and annoying ever sense.

See: This story from the BBC and this one from CNN for more

Blame it on the Babylonians. Our Base 60 time system is a bear to calculate — especially if you have to calculate runtimes of segments of video.

Quick: What’s the duration between timestamp 00:18:28 and 00:45:39?

My point exactly. Trying to count that clumsy sum on your finders and toes will give your a brain hang-up more epic than Babylon’s famous gardens.

Luckily, I came across this handy, free time calculator for just such mathematical challenges. As an added plus, the calculator stores your past entries, so you can click to compute common number combos.

Nebuchadnezzar himself couldn’t ask for a better math tool. Unless, of course, he would have know about the decimal system.

From today’s WSJ… View the article here…

I guess I’m not the only one who thinks the Rangers need prayer!

This morning, Sarah and I discovered two things:

1. Saturday does in fact start before 8am.
2. This old English hall wardrobe.

Getting up early works for birds hunting worms, so we figured the same strategy might work for poor kids searching for bedroom storage on the cheap. Kind of like the Ethan Allen cabinet we recently found and painted.

When our usual hot spots turned us down cold, we stepped into a consignment shop in Frisco. That’s where we spotted this ol’ chap standing in a corner.

It’s a hardwood English wardrobe most likely from the 1920′s – 1950′s. It’s called a “hall” wardrobe because at just over 5 ft. tall and 18 in. deep, it’s diminutive size is well-suited for an entryway or hallway. Or, in our case, it’s perfect scale for our cozy apartment.

And after a little discussion with the proprietor, we ended up with a petit $84 price tag to match.

Our original plan was to find something we could paint or refinish. But, with it’s beautiful hardwood inlays, scroll work and quaint hardware, we find the English accents charming, indeed!

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Location scouting for an upcoming shoot when Mandy drove us by this Allen, Texas gem, built in 1887. Read about its history here…