Robert H Myers

Videos

  • There are no cats in America?

    Our futures are like this – devoid of risk or threat, far sunnier than our ravaged pasts. We can place our hopes there, safely, for we know that in the future all will be right. The sad fact is that there are cats in America, and in our futures. All the singing in the world…

  • Like the “Tipping Point” but, you know, with Science.

    Did you like Malcolm Gladwell’s “Tipping Point” or Dan & Chip Heath’s “Made to Stick?” You did? Both, are totally great works that opened our eyes to how ideas get spread. Of the two, “Made to Stick” was the better manual for attributing what is “sticky” vs. what is passably interesting. Now, Professor Jonah Berger…

  • Sense Memories of Falling in Love

    This album dropped just over 20 years ago and I was beyond head-over-heals with my longest term of High School girlfriends. This song “Fade into you” perfectly transports me back to my wistful days as a heart-achy youth, just marinating in the brain chemicals of being so smitten. If it wasn’t for work and school,…

  • Dan Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation TED talk

    This is an absolute classic and one that has helped me decide what kind of work I most enjoy doing. The three keys towards fulfilling, cognitive work, are (summarized briefly): *Autonomy – Do you control a majority of your time at work and what you’re working on? *Mastery – Are you doing something you can…

  • Simon Sinek – Your job is to take care of your team.

    Great video of Simon Sinek talking about the Circle of Safety – why we should take care of one another and why it’s a leaders highest obligation to make sure that they take care of their team. It’s a shame I missed this as it was filmed in downtown Gainesville.

  • You Can Never Go Home Again…

    There’s something great about that. You lived it once and that’s all you’re going to get it. God! You wish maybe you could go back and do that one thing differently and yet… Don’t do that. It happened. And it’s great. Or not. Doesn’t really matter at this point. It happened and that’s that. So…

  • What all Great Leaders Do…

    Simon Sinek gives about the best description I’ve ever seen on the powerful effects of Trust. I really don’t want to say too much here, best just to take a little while to listen to this while you’re typing and soak it in.

  • Thank God It’s Monday! No, Seriously…

    I have a confession: I love Mondays. Yeah, you heard it – Mondays rule. Mondays suck for some people. They used to suck for me. I first learned “TGIF” when I was in elementary school. First heard my parents play drive-time afternoon radio on the way home from school about how awesome it was that…

  • You were in Vietnam?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tNz9ZzLjUw As usual, Seth Godin’s blog delivers succinct brilliance. Today’s is about the quickest way to bring about change, which he relays within three points. Spoilers: the answer is not electing someone to the Presidency. Coming up in the Student Housing Industry in Gainesville (Go Gators), I worked as a Community Manager for an outfit…