October 2009
27 posts
“Responding to climate change with the vigor that the threat deserves would not,...”
– Paul Krugman (via syntheticpubes)
September 2009
26 posts
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these...”
– Albert Einstein (via reluctantbuddha)
“Talking about your product only gets you so far. You need a point of view. What...”
– 5 Things you need to know about Social Media Marketing | Paying Attention
“This is incredibly liberating. It’s not sustainable, but it is a temporary...”
– Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man
The Way We Die Now →
jayparkinsonmd:
tlvx:
“In the last days of her life, Annabel Kitzhaber had a decision to make: she could be the tissue-skinned woman in the hospital with the tubes and the needles, the meds and smells and the squawk of television. Or she could go home and finish the love story with the man she’d been married to for 65 years.”
At age 88, with a weak heart, and tests that showed she most...
“You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.”
– Seth’s Blog: Win the fight, lose the customer
How I Discovered My Life's Purpose →
kareem:
Do you know what your life’s purpose is?
I didn’t, until a little over a month ago.
Maybe my story will give you insight on finding yours, if you haven’t already.
Thankful to have crossed paths with Kareem. Even though we’ve only hung out ‘in the real world’ a few times, already feels like a kindred spirit and I’m very excited for his...
“Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy (via Jeff Atwood) (via marco)
“Our great challenge isn’t “recovering” from a financial crisis. It is...”
– Umair Haque
[via The M-Shaped Recovery]
(via ambivalence)
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
“The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50...”
– 50 Cent (via kareem) (via taylordavidson)
Holy fracking frack, I’m quoting Fiddy Cent! I didn’t know the guy had a conscientious thought in his life. This is quite an important one.
(via tedr)
“When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.”
– Betty Bender —- (via kareem)
A startup is not only an opportunity to bring a new product to the market, but to create a work environment that transcends ‘clocking in’ and provides fodder for inspiration and learning.
Check out Grockit for a good example.
“There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche, via Caterina: Being Lazy by doing too much (via zachklein) (via fascinated)
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a...”
– Cicero
vruz:
“Facebook and Twitter are tools. Frameworks wherein individuals place their content, not for everyone, but for their accumulated mass, which could be two or three or a few thousand, but which is rarely millions. If Whitney Houston can be all over mainstream media and only sell three hundred thousand albums in a country of three hundred million, do you really think the mainstream counts?...
False Power →
petervidani:
If you have to start compromising on your core values to get into power, you’re not in power.
“Feedback that tells you something you already know is still quite valuable. It...”
– Lessons Learned: The cardinal sin of community management
“…the fact that the United States spends twice as much per person as most European countries on health care can be substantially explained, as a study released last month says, by our being fatter.
…
That’s why our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether Washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more...
“One of the leading products of the American food industry has become patients...”
– Michael Pollan, NYT: Big Food vs. Big Insurance (via nickdouglas)
“Solve the simplest customer pains first. If successful with that, more complex...”
– Twitter / Hiten Shah: Solve the simplest custome … (via hiten)
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein (via reluctantbuddha)
“ “It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s...”
– via Tiny Buddha