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Meeting Daniel Pink and hearing about his new book, “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing”, at Tampa’s Oxford Exchange

On Friday, February 2nd at Oxford Exchange — a fantastic combination of bookstore, shop, restaurant, coworking space, design studio, and event venue in downtown Tampa — author Daniel Pink gave a presentation as part of the promotional tour for his new book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. I’m an avid reader of books […]

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Roberto Torres talks about immigration in the Tampa Bay Times

In today’s edition of the Tampa Bay Times, local hero Roberto Torres — owner of the Blind Tiger Cafés, Black & Denim Clothing Company, and CoWork Ybor — talks about immigration, its clichés, the need to dispel the notion that immigration is bad, and how Tampa became his home. I’ve had the privilege of hanging […]

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Notes from the 1st Annual Tampa Bay Millennial Impact Forum

Last night, I attended the 1st Annual Tampa Bay Millennial Impact Forum, a gathering featuring prominent Tampa professional ages 40 and under discussing civic topics. Tampa’s News Channel 8 described it as a career advice session, but I saw it as more of a call for community involvement that would lead to personal and career success along […]

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The 1st Annual Tampa Millennial Impact Forum: This Tuesday, June 13 at Amalie Arena

This should be interesting: This Tuesday, June 13th at Amalie Arena, a panel comprising business, civic, and government leaders will join Tampa Bay Lightning owner and general investor-in-Tampa Jeff Vinik for an event called the 1st Annual Tampa Millennial Impact Forum. Aimed at a civic-minded audience, the panel is expect to discuss “discuss all the development […]

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Notes from the first Tampa Company Culture meetup

Yesterday, a new and potentially scene-changing Tampa Meetup group convened for the first time: the Tampa Company Culture Meetup, which I attended with Anitra and our friend Shelley. Organized by Saxon Baum and Taylor Wallace, co-founders of the startup WeVue, it’s a gathering of Accordion Bay people who are interested in building good cultures in the companies where they work. I […]

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Tampa’s first company culture meetup: This Thursday, June 23!

I’m going to attend what should be an interesting meetup this Thursday in Tampa: the first Tampa Company Culture Meetup. It’ll happen on Thursday, June 23rd at 7:00 p.m. at the Blind Tiger Café in Ybor City. The simplest definition of “company culture” is the set of values and practices that a company’s employees share. Wikipedia’s […]

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Toronto-to-Tampa Road Trip, Day 3: Hangover day in Asheville

In case you missed the previous installments in this series, here they are: Day 1: Toronto, Ontario to the Customs and Border Protection Office in Buffalo, New York to Morgantown, West Virginia Day 2: Morgantown, West Virginia to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina Day 2 addendum: Pigeon Forge, Smoky Mountain Knife Works, and […]