There are those songs you keep coming back to listen, hearing them every time as though for the first. ‘The Winner Takes It All‘ by ABBA is one of those songs. My mom loved ABBA, and we had all their records, on the gramophone, during my childhood. The band holds a nostalgic sentiment for me both because…
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Nothing like a little grace to brighten a person’s day, and Alondra de la Parra does it for me today. Some call her enthusiastic, others say she’s passionate. I think she’s simply beautiful. “When I was a kid I said, ‘If I’m not an old man with white hair, I can’t be a conductor’. But…
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One of the more frequent questions I get asked about entrepreneurship is ‘how does one start?’ I have made a couple posts, here for example, on some materials that would help give any person interested a general understanding of the variety of ways to enter the world of business and commerce. The material today continues…
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Artist: Cai Guo-Qiang. | Interview I was introduced to this dramatic installation 4 years ago, and have never stopped admiring it ever since. It is beautiful, odd, and all round inspiring. Exhibited in Berlin, New York, Bilbao, Singapore, and now Brisbane, this year 2006 installation has 99 life-sized stuffed wolves barrel into a glass wall. They…
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