I headed over to the De Young Museum for the Picasso exhibit this weekend and was pleasantly surprised to find that the Dahlia Dell in Golden Gate Park was in full bloom. Here are a few interesting facts about Dahlias: Dahlias are native to Mexico, but were imported to Europe and named after the Swedish [...]

I was catching up on some old NPR podcasts this weekend and happened to catch an interview with Hisham Matar, a Libyan-American author who now lives in London. Inspired by his own experiences, Matar has written a fiction novel called Anatomy of a Disappearance that describes the effects of a father’s disappearance on his son. [...]

Chris Brogan had a great list of awhile back of “10 Things You Could Do Better Today”. A few really resonated with me this week:   1. Improve your response time to requests. ….. 7. Resolve three pieces of unfinished business, no matter how painful. 8. Live closer to your goals and your main points [...]

Really incredible time-lapse and tilt-shift video created by Ryan and Shari Killackey. The video, a year and a half in the making, was created from over 10,000 photos taken throughout California.

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