June 2012
hoarding information makes us weak.
sharing information makes us powerful.
taking credit makes us weak.
giving credit makes us powerful.
being defensive makes us weak.
owning our mistakes makes us powerful.
pretending we have all the answers makes us weak.
asking for help makes us powerful.
- reminders from @sacca [emphasis mine]
we are wading through a see of uninspired activity…searching…endlessly for that glimmer of ambition…that crazy look in a crazy founder’s eye…that says i would not last 4 seconds at bain consulting and i might have killed a turtle when i was 7 to see if reincarnation was real…where are you strange thinkers? where are you weirdos? for god’s sake, get weird. do different…PLEASE…the fate of our...
i think of elegance as a way of being at ease with the world and of putting others at ease with the world through one’s ability to link one’s aesthetics in some way, not necessarily in an harmonious way, but in an interesting way, to the preoccupations and expectations of others and in some way behave in the world with a sense of grace. that is what i think elegance is. i don’t think it has a look...
how we heal
completion is the counterpart to creation: we want to see the energy we set in motion in our lives come full circle. we want to see our children grow up, we want to understand why some of our relationships failed, we want to see our businesses flourish, we want to see our creativity come into physical manifestation. and we want to see the seeds of our lives produce a harvest, even if...
but how to establish the exact moment in which a story begins? everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. or else the real story is the one that begins ten or a hundred pages further on, and everything that precedes it is only a prologue. the lives of individuals of the human race form a...
the researchers gave pairs of friends separate questionnaires on their lifestyles (how often they drank, exercised, etc.) and opinions (on topics such as abortion) and found that the bigger the school, the more similar friends were to one another. in follow-up research, not yet published, ms. bahns and her team found similar results comparing big cities like new york and chicago to smaller ones...
we have consistently voted for hardware that’s thinner rather than upgradeable. but we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere. our purchasing decisions are telling apple that we’re happy to buy computers and watch them die on schedule. when we choose a short-lived laptop over a more robust model that’s a quarter of an inch thicker, what does that say about our values?
every time we buy...
he finished going through my work, and said into the phone, “janet, could you hold on for a moment?” he covered the receiver with his hand, and i leaned forward in my chair. “you know, frank, after looking at this…” my eyes widened. okay, here we go. finally, some honest feedback. something other than “looks great.” “needs more love,” he said to me. “okay, janet, i’m back. sorry for that,...
you deserve more than just somebody who’s nice to you. i think that so often these days, niceness seems like it should be enough because it seems like such a rare quality but when you get inside of it, you think, ‘mmmm … i can be pretty nice to myself.’ what about these other things?
- michelle williams [emphasis mine]
