Ghostwriting is a mysterious art. Something about it brings to mind magician?s oaths and secret handshakes, even to many writers. I?ll answer the comments I get most often: ?What do I love about ghostwriting?? ? ?If someone says they wrote a book, but a ghostwriter really did, isn?t that lying?? ? ?How do you pretend to write like someone else?? ? ?It?s too bad you don?t get any credit? and ?What advice do you have for someone who wants to become a ghostwriter??

We need to acknowledge as a community that our current system of educating young people produces mixed to appalling results. In addition to making them woefully unprepared for the contemporary workplace, our current system alienates young people from their families and their peers for the majority of their childhood and adolescence

Starting a business can yield great personal rewards, but at the expense of stress, relentless complications, and unromantic perspiration. These raw personal truths showcase common challenges experienced by new business ventures, as well as tactics to overcome them.

This presentation explores different types of assholes, including the Silent Asshole, the Know It All Asshole, the Victim Asshole, and how to avoid being one.

The upshot : Improve food and nutritional security for Phoenix through radically simplified urban agronomy. Let

It is my belief that communities, whether religious, technical, hobbiest or otherwise, are easily distracted by well intentioned attempts at growth. Growing a community is hard work, but can be compromised when money, profit, power, and influence enter the picture. Instead, I want to discuss empowering communities to achieve true organic growth.

Do you know the women who are rocking the local scene in Phoenix? Who are they? Where are they? What causes do they support? You would be surprised at the creativity and awareness that is in the Phoenix local music scene.

We love to hike in Phoenix, but we?re loving our favorite trails to death. Instead of conquering Camelback or Piestewa Peak for the zillionth time, why not branch out and discover some lesser known trails in the Phoenix Metro Area?

Persuasion is a skill that we start practicing from the minute we?re born. Babies cry. Children whine, parents, partners or spouses nag! Tonight we will focus on 5 tactics that we can use to get our own way, that when used, will leave the other person thinking that they got their own way too!

None of us wants to fail. Avoiding failure is often the primary concern of any new venture. However, failure is a powerful tool. Failure can often teach us the path to success. Leo will teach us how the motto ?Fail Often to Succeed Early? will change your life, business, and philanthropic endeavors.

?Big Numbers? wraps up my two previous Ignite Phoenix talks ? Big Time and Big Distance. Like the previous sessions, this is all about scale. Or rather, our inability to fully grasp when things get really, really BIG.

Where the first two talks covered topics we think about only on occasion, Big Numbers deals with the everyday numbers we are exposed to every day that we simply don?t understand. Though we act as if we do.

I use shifts in perspective to bring about shifts in perception. Heck, that belongs on a tee-shirt.

Whether you recognize it or not, a social epidemic is taking place in Phoenix right now. According to Malcolm Gladwell, the moment when a social epidemic takes off or reaches its critical mass is called its tipping point. Has Phoenix reached the tipping point yet? If so, what was it? If not, what will it be?

Want to build a cool website with the mugshots of Maricopa county arrestees in real time? Want to know who uses the most water on the hottest day of the year? Want to see what neighborhoods get the fastest responses to citizen complaints? You can?t! Let?s talk about what?s wrong with Arizona laws and what can we do about it.

Matt Jones was born a white male and, despite pressure from friends and colleagues, decided to stay one. He?ll explain why and give people the often overlooked white-male perspective on diversity.

Sometimes people die peacefully of natural causes. Other times, mortuaries have to artfully put Humpty back together again. Your weirdest questions about your body - after death - answered without really disturbing visuals.

Education is one of the most powerful personal and societal change-makers. In my own life, I have seen first hand how education can shift everything for the better. Life long learning is a way to invest in yourself and your community.

The astrolabe is an astronomical calculator dating back at least 2000 years. Once you have walked through how to use the darn thing, you will appreciate firsthand just how much

There is a huge difference between nerds, geeks, dorks and dweebs that few notice. With that difference comes a distinct social structure and hierarchy. I will attempt to explain the difference between each classification and will detail where each stands on the totem pole of life.

If you?ve never played Bar Golf, you?re in luck. If you have, you know that there?s an extreme amount of variations in rules and execution. I will explore the best set of rules for this game and how to have the time of your life enjoying America?s new favorite pastime.