How much do I love this blog post, Post #1000: A Strawman for Everything, by Scott Berkun? I love it arms spread wide big!

His five things:

1. We need to ask more questions.
2. We confuse tech progress with social and personal progress.
3. Integrity is the proximity of your beliefs to your actions, and we need more integrity.
4. There is a downward spiral of empty consumption.
5. This is the greatest time in history for creatives.

My favorite excerpt is from #2

Social progress, more freedom, less cruelty, personal enlightenment, lifetime fulfillment, and more, all depend less on technologies than self-awareness and will. The U.S. Constitution was written on quill pens. The Civil rights movement was fueled by marches and speeches. Buddha, Jesus and Socrates did all their deeds without even the dream of electricity. The Internet, the iPad or whatever comes next are unlikely to be the prime mover in (social) progress as history demonstrates tech is rarely the missing link: our self-awareness and commitment to change often are. Tech can certainly help, but the heavily lifting is always on us.

Thanks Scott.