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Walking the Walk | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner’s Blog. Go Where They Ain’t, Don’t Follow Your Passion. I’m Moving My Blog Back to My Site →. April 19, 2010 · 1:37 pm. Looking for Full-Time Coder for DC Start-Up". It’s funny because in DC, you can stop anyone on the street and they will be some high-level program manager or policy wonk interested in federal-level funding and grant-making for this or some other project. But when it comes to finding people to implement all these plans and programs in a tangible way, the pool is thin. If I had...
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Go Where They Ain’t, Don’t Follow Your Passion | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner’s Blog. Walking the Walk →. January 28, 2010 · 4:52 pm. Go Where They Ain’t, Don’t Follow Your Passion. Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs. Says that, after working with people who have the dirtiest jobs in America, they’re happier than most people. And they’re getting rich by going where everyone else wasn’t; they’re not following their passion. He also says our society is at war with work. Walking the Walk →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Reorienting National Security Priorities | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner’s Blog. State of the Nation After 9/11/09. On the Health Care Debate →. October 24, 2009 · 1:16 pm. Reorienting National Security Priorities. Below is my plan for reorienting American security priorities, which I think are currently misaligned, often conflicting, and outdated. This is not a plan for innovation, or financial reform (which is one of the most pressing national issues), or for progressivism. It’s a plan to increase the long-term durability of homeland security. Complaints that an ...
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Wrapping Up 2009, Planning 2010 | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner’s Blog. My 2009 Book List. Guerrilla Journalist Teams →. January 20, 2010 · 1:17 am. Wrapping Up 2009, Planning 2010. Things I did in 2009 (in no particular order):. Ran my first marathon with Dina, Rose, and Dan, in Charlottesville, VA. Earned my Master’s in Foreign Service from Georgetown. Got an awesome job as a social media operations analyst. Started the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults process to become a Catholic and Christian. Moved into my first solo apartment. My 2009 Book List.
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UAVs, Navy, Satellites, Battle Stars | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner’s Blog. HBO’s Hard Knocks. My 2009 Book List →. December 24, 2009 · 1:45 pm. UAVs, Navy, Satellites, Battle Stars. This post, which I want to keep pretty short, feeds off my post on re-orienting national security priorities. I read a fascinating paper provocatively entitled “How the US Lost the Naval War of 2015”. PDF), by James Kraska. Into the age of submarines and aircraft carriers. The loss of the Suez Canal was a significant barrier, as well. It’s a fascinating paper although obviou...
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Guerrilla Journalist Teams | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner’s Blog. Wrapping Up 2009, Planning 2010. Go Where They Ain’t, Don’t Follow Your Passion →. January 27, 2010 · 4:10 pm. So these two trends together… What if you could form a lightweight guerrilla journalist team? It would start with one field reporter and two people as a social media team. Very small. Basically, the field reporter finds an interesting story (e.g. Haiti) and goes to that area to report what he sees on the ground. The two people back home provide intelligence...The strength of t...
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My 2009 Book List | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner’s Blog. UAVs, Navy, Satellites, Battle Stars. Wrapping Up 2009, Planning 2010 →. December 26, 2009 · 12:12 pm. My 2009 Book List. Here’s the list of books I read during 2009. I finished 49 books in 2009. Ahead of my goal of 40. In 2010 I will attempt 40 books again. The books are rated on a 1-10 scale. The list is in chronological order. You can also read ratings of books I’ve read going back to before 2006 from my Google Spreadsheet. Levine, Locke, Searls, and Weinberger). 9) The Third Wave.
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Me | Ben Turner's Blog
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Ben Turner's Blog. Finding identity, and building a life worth remembering. March 30, 2014. At 36 years of age, as of March 7th, I have just become gloriously married. You know those times at school when the teacher or a counselor would have you write down your 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year goals? This is one of those moments in life where I take a knee at the top of the hill, look back at the path I’ve come from, and sigh and reflect on all that’s happened. Is just a beautiful thing to behold. As the inte...
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