Give Hope

I think given the choice between doing something that you are passionate about and something that gives others hope, you (and the world) would be better served choosing the latter.

The conventional wisdom of career advisers, management scientists and entrepreneurs says that if you want to be happy and engaged in your life’s work you should focus on things that you are deeply passionate about.

That by focusing on your passions, you will bring a level of energy and commitment to your work that will lead to both enjoyment and long-term success.

While I don’t disagree with this, I believe encouraging myopic pursuit of one’s passions fuels self-important self-supremacy.

In doing so we are training up generations to think that “following your dreams” is...

All Your Data Are Belong To Us

Concerned about Facebook’s use of your private data? Consider this – while a lot of attention has been given in the past year to Facebook’s aggressive push to capture more and more data about users, Google has (more or less) managed to fly under the radar as it embedded itself into the entire fabric of the entire Internet.

Google is watching you right now

The amount of information that Google collects from your web browsing session is staggering. Yet we don’t hear as much backlash against Google, largely in part because the data collection happens behind the scenes with most users unaware of how frequently they’re sending data to Google.

The guys at Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab have developed a clever browser plug-in that demonstrates this by sounding an alarm every time data is sent to Google from a web site....

Find Inspiration

I’ve been watching reruns of the show The West Wing. The stories of these fictitious men and women striving to make America better, driven by a vision and a passion to fulfill the greatness of this nation, united by their belief in a greater purpose for man inspire me. The show inspires me. There are moments in the show that move me and stir something deep within my heart.

  The power of inspiration is that it lifts us to heights that would be unobtainable if left to our own devices. It awakens something lying deep inside, releasing the floodgates of unimagined potential and causing us to come fully alive.

We live under the burden of death. Weighed down by sin. Bent low as a consequence of the fall. Our senses become dulled and our spirit is dampened by the incompleteness of this world. We...

Do Hard Things

If Satan’s chief purpose is to steal glory from God by encouraging idolatry and frustrating holiness it stands to reason that the things that we do that are the most difficult, the things that are so frustratingly hard that it seems like supernatural forces are conspired against us… those things, so long as they are good, are the things that have the most potential to glorify God and therefore are the things that are most worth doing.

Sin frustrates creation. Creation is meant to glorify God. The things that sin is going to stand in the way of are the things that will glorify God. When we labor in ways that God intended for us; when we do good, redemptive work, Satan takes notice. When we undertake any effort that will bring glory to God, Satan mobilizes armies to resist us. Comfort, luxury… Satan pays no attention to these things.

The things that are worth doing are...

Social Media Demographics – Top Social Networking Sites

Effective social media strategy starts with knowing your audience.

Every social media site attracts different users for different reasons. Whether your a business, a church, or a ministry, your ability to effectively reach and engage through social media greatly depends on knowing where your audience is online.

Below is demographic information for the world’s most popular social networks. Knowing the demographics of your target audience allows you to determine how much of that audience you can reach on each of these sites. Focusing on the sites with the greatest reach will maximize the effectiveness of your efforts and help you make the most of your social media strategy.

Top Social Network Demographic Data

(Data as of April, 2010)