Yvon Chouinard’s Patagonia Commercial for the Dirtbag Diaries
Today, I put on an episode of the Dirtbag Diaries, a great podcast you should probably check out, and it, like all of the episodes, started with a commercial for… 315 more words
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Worn Wear testimonial
Patagonia, the clothing company has a brilliant marketing campaign: Worn Wear which I posted about before.
Here’s an excellent testimonial by Rain Noe over at Core77: … 188 more words
Rick Ridgeway on Sustainable Apparel and Patagonia’s ‘Renegade Culture'
Rick Ridgeway is Patagonia’s Vice President of Environmental Affairs, and it is the least dangerous position he’s ever been in.
Ridgeway was one of the first Americans to summit K2 and part of the first team in the world to do so without supplemental oxygen. 243 more words
Excellence Books: Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard
Check out the “excellence principle” in the business world and life in general:
I’ve been a student of Zen philosophy for many years. In Zen archery, for example, you forget about the goal—hitting the bull’s-eye—and instead focus on all the individual movements involved in shooting an arrow.95 more words
Patagonia, From the Ground Up
Highlighting the excellence from: the June 2010 issue of Entrepreneur, Jennifer Wang
While the rest of retail was tanking, Yvon Chouinard’s outdoor clothing and gear company was having its best two years ever. 899 more words
The Examined Life & Mindful Business: From Socrates to Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia
#MUNIonThis:
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates uttered these words at his trial for heresy – for encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs of the time, and to think for themselves – and chose instead to drink hemlock than live in prison or exile.
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Los más internos límites de la pura diversión
Hace ya unos años intenté hacer un artículo sobre las películas de George Greenough para Chilena Comando cuyo eje sería una entrevista con él; la sospecha de que es una de las personas con la conversación más interesante del mundo era demasiado fuerte. 2,513 more words
