Chapter Four of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated is where things start to fall a little bit in disarray for me. Rushkoff begins by attacking the ideology of the Secret, but this is the same guy who wrote Club Zero-G as a graphic novel primer on the idea of designer reality. He's a man who believes that stories shape reality and we are ultimately the architects of our world. I'm no defender of ...

Chapter three of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated is one that hits solidly home for me. Back in September I moved from the overcrowded state of New Jersey to the Western side of Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley - out to the country. Now I'm not that far from a metro-area. Harrisonburg (home to James Madison University) is 25 minutes away (with all it's strip malls and corporate stores). If I'm feeling especially ...

As I mentioned many moons ago, I intend to go over Douglas Rushkoff's book Life Incorporated, piece-by-piece. I'm a little behind where I intended to be, but it's not like his ideas or observations are going to be outdated any time soon. An examination of chapter two of his book makes this fact very clear.

The second chapter is one to use as a rallying cry for anyone opposed to predatory practices ...

There are some companies out there that run their business on vengeance - plain and simple. These are the companies that you just do not want to do business with - or even work for. It's nice to want to "crush" the competition, or make comments about putting the other company out of business, or perhaps running them over with the "bus;" but the truth is, these comments are really just ego masturbation meant to make ...

As many of you already know, I recently switched jobs, while moving out to the country just outside of Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was actually very bittersweet for me, and required a lot of soul-searching and second-guessing.

As a bit of a Cliff's Notes background, back in 2004 I left the consulting company I was working for (Series-I Support Services, Inc.) to pursue a little bit less of a consulting arrangement. I went to work ...

The home that I purchased contains three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Our intention was always to make sure that one of the extra bedrooms became my office - regardless of whether I'm working in an office building, telecommuting or working at my own business.

Now my idea of building an office is to throw a computer desk in a room and call it a day. Of course, I also thought my new home was in ...

I mentioned previously that I would be going over Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated piece-by-piece (sometimes chapter-by-chapter); and although I'm a little behind schedule in posting my thoughts due to a web site redesign, my intentions remain the same. Rushkoff's book in a battle cry not against capitalism, as many will misconstrue it, but against corporatism, and the actions of corporate America that bleed the common American dry of their culture ...