About Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster

The writing team of Smith and Foster comes from an extensive background of new media content creation. They are both established professionals with careers in literature, design and fine arts each with unique generational perspectives on mass media and global culture.

Reinvention: Editing Out What’s Not Working, Finding What Does Work

By |2018-01-27T19:58:52+00:00March 21st, 2013|Huffington Post|

Reinvention is a lot like revising a piece of writing. To reinvent, you review what currently is and ask yourself what's not moving the process ahead.

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The Reinvention of Work: Projects Not Positions

By |2018-01-27T19:58:52+00:00February 26th, 2013|Huffington Post|

Over the last 20 years work has been reinvented, restructured, and rebooted. The top-tier and bottom level of what working means has been redefined by corporations, visionaries, technologies and individuals.

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The Truth About Lying: Reinventing Our Survival Instincts

By |2018-01-27T19:58:52+00:00February 12th, 2013|Huffington Post|

As we get older, it becomes clear how cheaters do, in fact, sometimes win. Quite often, they win big and fall to a horrible disgrace when the truth is revealed about their compromised victories.

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Tragedy, Guns, Games and the Deadly Art of Illusion

By |2021-03-27T20:20:14+00:00January 25th, 2013|Huffington Post|

Since so much has been written recently about mental illness and access to guns, it's not a stretch to flip this argument around to include unrestrained force by a governmental body against someone who is dealing with depression.

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A Timely Interview With Jon Ramer About Creating Collective Compassion (Part 2)

By |2018-01-27T19:58:52+00:00January 9th, 2013|Huffington Post|

Jon Ramer is a software entrepreneur turned social engineer, a civic leader, a community organizer, an inventor, and a musician. He is the designer and co-founder of several Deep Social Networks, including the Ideal Network. He was an organizational participant in Seeds of Compassion, an event in Seattle coordinated around the His Holiness the Dalai [...]

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A Timely Interview With Jon Ramer About Creating Collective Compassion (Part 1)

By |2018-01-27T19:58:52+00:00December 31st, 2012|Huffington Post|

Jon Ramer is a software entrepreneur turned social engineer, a civic leader, a community organizer, an inventor, and a musician. He is the designer and co-founder of several Deep Social Networks, including the Ideal Network. He was an organizational participant in Seeds of Compassion, an event in Seattle coordinated around the His Holiness the Dalai [...]

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The Post Office and the Dollar Store: A Common Sense Holiday Tale

By |2018-01-27T19:58:53+00:00December 18th, 2012|Huffington Post|

Some lawmakers and people in big media have promoted the notion that since the U.S. Post Office is losing money, it must be privatized.

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Rethinking How We Talk About the Bully: Defusing the Arch-Enemy of the Interconnected 21st Century

By |2018-01-27T19:58:53+00:00December 5th, 2012|Huffington Post|

The web has exposed humanity's most damaging tendencies to engage in cruelty and dehumanization.

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Life, Death, and Taxes: How Language Impacts Reinvention and Motivation

By |2018-01-27T19:58:53+00:00November 14th, 2012|Huffington Post|

You can't have death without life, and you can't pay taxes unless you're a part of something bigger than yourself.

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America Reelects President Obama, and Rejects the Republican Plutocrat.

By |2018-01-27T19:58:53+00:00November 9th, 2012|Huffington Post|

The American people have seen how extreme wealth concentrated at the top greatly unbalances the lives of citizens, and a growing number of people want the opposite, and are willing to work to change the system.

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