badAd: New Ad Network

badAd: New Ad Network

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It took nine months to create badad.one. While searching for any way to monetize my own blog, I saw how invasive many of the “best” advertising platforms can be. Most monetizing solutions weren’t that attractive. In fact, all of them were quite unattractive. I wanted no part.

Interestingly, I had been contemplating the very idea of a financially solvent news business. Newspapers used to make money. Today, they don’t. I even wrote about the whole issue of news solvency in my 2015 book, Know Each Other. Advertising and blogging have to work together or neither can work at all.

That was the light bulb moment! If ads and blogs go hand in hand, then ads should be like blogs and blog readers should be glad to read ads! We need ads that people want to find. The solution was simple: text ads.

Text ads load fast, are searchable, and get to the point… pun in tended, being that my weekly blurb is called “The Point”.  · · · →

Four Parts of Forgiveness

Four Parts of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is only hard when it’s needed. Forgiveness is double-edged: believing there is an offense while at the same time letting go of being offended. This requires maturity, nearly impossible; and it never gets easy. Our in-born tendency is to either beat people with their foolishness or forget that foolishness is foolish, acting like there is nothing to forgive.

Forgiveness changes people, nudging them to stop doing what what forgiven. If your own folly continues, then you haven’t been forgiven, maybe by yourself. It is hard to forgive others without forgiving yourself, and vice versa, because forgiveness is also two-sided.  · · · →

Light to the Calm

Light to the Calm

Storms don’t affect lighthouses. They stay put and stay lit. Ships trying to remain afloat have a different story.

On calms seas, shipping can make business, trade, and profit. But, when seas rage, cargo gets lost and shipping businesses can go belly up while lighthouses remain unaffected. It’s the storm and the shaking which separates lighthouse from vessel.

Unlike lighthouses and vessels, humans have a choice. In each moment, we can be calm and steady or we can be tossed by every wave and worry of every good and bad news. When the shaking comes, that’s your chance to shine.  · · · →

Calm Is Antiviral

Calm Is Antiviral

A steady, strong, stable hand can steer a vessel through even the greatest turmoil. We saw this in Britain during the German Blitzkrieg. Rather than giving into fear, Britons went calmly about their daily business and the country carried on. In Taiwan, where the 2019 pneumoniavirus stays under the best containment in the world, people carry on and keep calm as they do.

It’s hard to read clearly while holding a book with shaky hands. Your best bet is to notice fear on the rise. Sense it, smell it in yourself. When you feel the crawl of fear, just ignore it.  · · · →