Steve Jobs — The Good Men Project

The Parable of the Cold Burrito

March 11, 2013 By Ken Goldstein Leave a Comment

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Ken Goldstein explains how doing the job no one else wants to touch can be turned into your golden opportunity.

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Featured Content Tagged With: Apple, business, cold burrito, Disney, George Carlin, Ice Box Man, Michael Eisner, parable, Steve Jobs, the beatles, Work

Where Have All The Good Men Gone?

February 27, 2013 By Harris O'Malley 197 Comments

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Harris O’Malley challenges the notion that there is an epidemic of man-children in society today.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content Tagged With: Alpha males, Doctor NerdLove, Family Guy, friends, Harris O'Malley, Henry Rollins, Jonah Hill, Judd Apatow, Kay Hymowitz, Knocked Up, manliness, modern manliness, RJ Moeller, Ron Swanson, Steve Jobs, Unified Theory of Manliness, vintage masculinity, Wall Street Journal, what makes a man manly

First, Let’s Kill All the Blue Screens

January 28, 2013 By Tom Matlack 5 Comments

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It could be me on my annual New Year’s rant against the electronic world getting all 19th century on your ass. But I don’t think so.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Good Is Good Tagged With: Apple, Bit.ly, BlackBerry (for at least a little while longer), fablets and the iPad minis; the Surface and the Air; the iMac and the Fire; the Android and the 5; the 100-inch plasmas and the HD projectors; the DS and the Wii; Android, Gary Shteyngart, LaterBro, Pinterest, reddit, Steve Jobs, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Tweepi, Twitter

Letter to My New Grandson

January 8, 2013 By Paul Sloane Leave a Comment

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Paul Sloane tells his grandson the meaning of life, in 2100 and beyond.

Filed Under: Grandfatherhood, The Good Life Tagged With: adventure, advice, family, friendship, gandhi, grandfatherhood, life lessons, Nelson Mandela, Sex and Relationships, Steve Jobs, success, teaching, Winston Churchill, Work

Communicating a Need

October 6, 2012 By 1in6 3 Comments

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While some ideas drown in noise, 1BlueString is bringing the voices of the 1in6 men that have been sexually abused to the surface.

Filed Under: On Rape and Sexual Violence Tagged With: 1BlueString, 1in6, Boys, communication, Eli Whitney, guitar players, guitar strings, guitars, guys, henry ford, innovation, instruments, men, music, need, rape, sexual abuse, sexual abuse of men, sexual violence, social causes, social justice, Steve Jobs

10 Movies That Will Absolutely, Positively Make a Make Man Cry (A List of Mostly Lists)

September 22, 2012 By Ryan Bjorklund 6 Comments

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In his latest tongue-in-cheek post, Ryan Björklund offers suggestions for click-worthy Good Men Project articles that will never, ever be written.

Filed Under: moustacheclubofamerica Tagged With: a dad's guide for sons, a list of lists, beach volleyball, blowjobs, cisgender, fat acceptance, fellatio, GMP lists, humor, in praise of the micropenis, iPhone 5, Jerry Sandusky, lists, MCoA, men are funny, micropenis, Moustache Club, Moustache Club of America, Nutella, Penn State, raising your children, receiving a blowjob respectfully, respectful blowjob, Ryan Björklund, stay-at-home dad, stay-at-home girlfriend, Steve Jobs, volleyball bikinis, women's volleyball bikinis

Don’t Fear the Fad

August 28, 2012 By Ken Goldstein Leave a Comment

Just because something is a fad does not necessarily make it a bad investment.

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Featured Content Tagged With: advice, analyzing data, Apple, automobiles, brand stewardship, business, business ethics, CEO, companies, corporate culture, creative destruction, earnings, Electronic Arts, equity, exposure, facebook, fads, Farmville, games, Google, groupon, Intel, internet, Investments, Jeopardy!, Mafia Wars, management vision, microprocessors, movies, NASDAQ, new media, opportunity, Pandora, performance, Products, radio, reality shows, shareholder value, sit-coms, social media, software, sports video games, Steve Jobs, Stocks, studying failure, tastemakers, Technology, television, Thomas Edison, trends, Trivial Pursuit, tv shows, Video Games, visionaries, volatility, Walt Disney, Yahoo, Zynga

The Male Straitjacket

August 22, 2012 By Mark Radcliffe 29 Comments

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Mark Radcliffe tears up the myth of male independence.

Filed Under: Editors' Picks, Featured Content, Sex & Relationships, The Good Life, Weddings Tagged With: Babe Ruth, backup, Bono, commitment, dependent, emotional man, encouragement, friends, gender, girlfriends, humility, independence, inspiration, interdependence, Kobe Bryant, Lance Armstrong, life, marriage, men, mentors, Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, milestones, mutuality, myths, President Obama, self-sufficient, sensitive man, Sex and Relationships, sports, Stereotypes, Steve Jobs, straitjacket, teachers, teams, wing man

Facebook IPO Shows What is Wrong with U.S.

May 24, 2012 By Tom Matlack 8 Comments

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Maybe Markie should have taken off his hoodie (we know really bad shit happens to guys of any race in those things) and put on a suit like every other adult in the room.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: facebook, IPO, mark zuckerberg, Morgan Stanley, Steve Jobs, Wall Street

Culture: Apple’s Ghostbusters Parody with Jobs & Wozniak Cosplay Unearthed

May 14, 2012 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

Steve Jobs and Woz are in a Ghostbusters spoof.

Filed Under: Culture, komplicated Tagged With: ghostbusters, spoof, Steve Jobs, woz

Dodging the Greatest Hits Graveyard

April 23, 2012 By Ken Goldstein 2 Comments

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Ken Goldstein discusses the lesson in courage and vision that gets a company (or a performing artist) from one-hit wonder to sustainability even beyond “greatest hits.”

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: Adele, Beethoven's Last Night, best of The Eagles, business, business ethics, Cheap Trick, Elton John, Greatest Hits, innovation, Ken Goldstein, Kodak, music, polaroid, RIM Blackberry, Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Steve Jobs, the beatles, top 40, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, TSO, U2

Meet the new Steve Jobs / Bill Gates Whiz Kid from Mongolia

April 23, 2012 By Travis Hellstrom 1 Comment

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Travis Hellstrom traveled to Mongolia with the Peace Corps, only to meet Mende, a technological and entrepreneurial genius.

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: Bill Gates, business ethics, entrepreneur, Google, Mende, Mongolia, Peace Corps, Steve Jobs, Technology, TEDxUlaanbaatar, Ulaanbaatar, volunteer, World Health Organization

Screw Hockey, I Want My Kid To Learn To Be Creative

April 18, 2012 By Jay Palter 4 Comments

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Jay Palter wants his children to grow up knowing how to unleash their creativity.

Filed Under: dadsgood, Featured Content Tagged With: Alberta, App develtopment, Canada, creativity, encouraging creativity, hockey, Homemade Dad, industry disruption, iPad, iPad App, Jay Palter, Kids and Coding, kung fu, Linchpin, raising kids, Richard Florida, Seth Godin, soccer, sports, Steve Jobs, TED, Thomas Suarez

The Pitt Bomb Threats: How Should a Good Man Respond to Terrorism?

April 9, 2012 By Nathan Zimmerman 8 Comments

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The University of Pittsburgh has received nearly 60 bomb threats. Copycat threats have been made elsewhere in Pittsburgh. What should be done about this?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, moustacheclubofamerica Tagged With: al-qaeda, building evacuations, Donald Rumsfeld, how to respond to terrorism, known unknowns, Pennsylvania, Pitt bomb threats, Pitt closed down, Pittsburgh, Steve Jobs, stop the Pitt bomb threats, terrorism, University of Pittsburgh, unknown unknowns, war on terror

The Sensitive But Angry Man

April 7, 2012 By Frederick Marx 20 Comments

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Frederick Marx has identified a type of man he’s been seeing around a lot.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: anger, economics, emotion, emotional repression, Frederick Marx, Nice guy, Recession, Steve Jobs

A Guy Named Ray: When Does Income Become Obscene?

April 6, 2012 By Tom Matlack 21 Comments

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Tom Matlack makes the case for an upper limit on income.

Filed Under: Good Is Good Tagged With: Adam Smith, Bridgewater Associates, capitalism, Class Warfare, executive compensation, Hedge Funds, income, Investment, James Simons, mark zuckerberg, money, Occupy Wall Street, Ray Dalio, Steve Jobs, Tom Matlack

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