You would think that Atlanta Motor Speedway would have no trouble filling its stands for NASCAR events. Deep in the heart of racing country and one of the sport’s largest population centers, the track has nonetheless had some well-documented struggles with paid attendance. And on the heels of a surprising (and considerable) bad year overall for the sport, one would forgive you for being less than optimistic about the possibilities of a sold out Kobalt Tools 500 on March 7.
One of the most underrated aspects of being a parent of a toddler is having a legitimate excuse to watch cartoons. Tonight, I watched a movie called “Cloudy with a Chance for Meatballs.” If you actually want to watch the movie, skip the rest of this post because I’m going to spoil it for you.
I wrote a post called “Encouraging Disruption” for the Filene Research Institute blog last week. If you haven’t checked it out yet, see it here: http://filene.org/blog/post/encouraging-disruption. Read the rest of this entry »
Please help Jason Lindstrom get this ad placed in the Credit Union Times: http://twitpic.com/z403r
If 500 of us put $3.00 a piece in, we’ll have enough. Maybe the Credit Union Times will give us a discount on that ad price as well…
Some articles make you say “hmmmm.” Some make you say “duh.” Others make your eyes get big, your jaw drop, and your hands fidget. The following Op-Ed piece by Jason Dias did exactly that to me. Read it. Internalize it. React to it. I’m curious to hear your thoughts.
I was a guest on the Why Gen Y Show at youngfreehq.com this week talking about how credit unions can help young adults by paying attention to life events and unique ways to address them.
If I were to make a list of the things I’d least like to do, shopping for life insurance would rank somewhere between watching a weeklong marathon of Jersey Shore and piercing my own tongue with a rusty drywall screw. Nonetheless, here I am just over two days from the birth of my second child, and that’s what I find myself compelled…err obligated to do (the life insurance part).
When I was 18, I worked in a factory that printed plastic labels for laundry detergent bottles, juice containers, shampoo bottles, and various other consumer products. My job (I couldn’t make this up if I tried) was to wipe the dust off of giant sheets of labels with a rag-wrapped block of wood. Eight hours a day, five days a week you could find me doing the Mr. Daniel Larusso-esque wax on wax off technique in the corner of the production floor.
Cooperation [koh-op-uh-rey-shuh
n]
- noun
1. An act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.