February 2011
5 posts
Exercises in Empathy #1
cc Empathy by [auro]
You can try this at your own time and convenience. Do the following in a public space:
Do something to help someone you do not know.
There are only two conditions to this step:
It has to be simple - things that do not impede on whatever you are doing at that moment
It has to be small - normal, every day things that no one else but you and the person you helped will...
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Books: Wolf Totem
Wolf Totem a novel by by Jiang Rong
A stunning portrait of 1960s Mongolia as seen through the eyes of an empathetic Han ethnographer. This adventurous novel explores the divisions between agrarian/nomadic, warrior/peasant, and tradition/modernity.
via http://thereboot.org
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of...”
– in Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton via Paulo Coelho’s blog
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January 2011
1 post
Our Biggest Android Annoyances and How to Fix Them [Annoyances] - http://pulsene.ws/NJ9l
December 2010
4 posts
“Everything in Nature moves in an endless circle: there is birth, death, and...”
– Amma
“Go to the people:
live with them, learn from them
love them
start with what...”
– Lao Tzu
Ten Questions Internet Executives Should Ask &... →
Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker’s presentation at Web 2.0 summit
“In the end, goodness triumphs over the bad. It is our challenge to do good and...”
– Honorata, Rwandan genocide survivor to Jacqueline Novogratz in The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
November 2010
3 posts
“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.”
– Luke 12:48
Reminder to self on Black Friday of shopping sprees. :) (privilege brings responsibility and that responsibility entails accountability - J. Dwight Pentecost)
57 Things I've Learned Founding Three Tech... →
abudak:
The best start-up article I’ve read in a long time, Jason Goldberg shares 57 lessons he’s learned in being a serial web-entrepreneur. A couple of my favorites:
“Build something you are personally passionate about. You are your best focus group.”
“You’re doing really well if 50% of what you originally planned on doing turns out to actually work. Follow your users as much as...
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past,
but by the responsibility...”
– George Bernard Shaw
October 2010
2 posts
“Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that...”
– Morpheus in Matrix
“Instead of using a magnifying glass to look at others’ faults, use a...”
– Amma (Sep 29)
September 2010
1 post
“Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to...”
– Amma
August 2010
2 posts
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the...”
– Bishop Desmond Tutu
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
– The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats
July 2010
2 posts
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“All the surgeries that happen in life’s operation theater are performed by God.”
– Amma
June 2010
1 post
“Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right thing.”
– Peter Drucker
May 2010
1 post
“If you want to go quickly, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.”
– Al Gore
February 2010
3 posts
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
– Mark Twain
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Gandhian Thought and Action for the Modern World →
Need to read every one of these links…
January 2010
3 posts
“Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you...”
– Thomas Merton “Letter To A Young Activist”
Weapons of Influence
Cialdini describes six “weapons of influence”
Reciprocity: people will repay favors.
Commitment and Consistency: people will stick to commitments made publicly.
Social Proof: people will do what other people do.
Authority: people obey authority figures.
Liking: people are more influenced by those they like.
Scarcity: people desire what is perceived as scarce.
From Never...
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Japanese Proverb
December 2009
6 posts
Shared Intentionality
The shared intentionality lies at the basis of human society, Dr. Tomasello argues. From it flow ideas of norms, of punishing those who violate the norms and of shame and guilt for punishing oneself. Shared intentionality evolved very early in the human lineage, he believes, and its probable purpose was for cooperation in gathering food. Anthropologists report that when men cooperate in hunting,...
October 2009
1 post
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
– Carl Sagan
September 2009
1 post
“Charity is about helping victims, justice is about asking why there are victims.”
– Marcus Borg
May 2009
1 post
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have...”
– T.S.Eliot
April 2009
2 posts
“Do Not Be
Haughty to the humble or
Humble to the haughty.”
– On Google’s whiteboard at M4Change, Washington DC.
March 2009
3 posts
“We all have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 2009
4 posts
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets...”
– George Orwell wrote in Notes on Nationalism
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more...”
– Machiavelli (1446-1507)
“Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted and Not Everything That Can Be Counted...”
– Einstein
December 2008
4 posts
“It is good to spend some time with children. They will teach you to believe, to...”
– Amma
“There was the tendency to confuse good manners and good tailoring with integrity...”
– J.K. Galbraith (1961). Quoted in The Madoff Affair from The Economist
“(s)He who upsets a thing should know how to rearrange it.”
– African proverb via Robert Egger’s blog
“When memories exceed dreams, the end is near. The hallmark of a truly successful...”
– Michael Hammer, business process reengineering Guru