March 2011
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http://www.kpcb.com/usainc/ →
November 2010
1 post
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via awakeinthedream)
August 2010
3 posts
awakeinthedream: Azam Ali - Sackpipslat
“There’s no recovery because it’s not a recession. It’s a great...”
– umairh
April 2010
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The Dropout Economy →
As this recent issue of Time magazine predicts, the new ten-year trend is “The Dropout Economy,” where young people are forced to explore radical alternatives as work disappears and the financial burden becomes intolerable: “As conventional high schools and colleges prepare the next generation for jobs that won’t exist, we’re on the cusp of a dropout revolution, one that will spark an...
March 2010
4 posts
THE NEW POOR: In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade... →
Great NYT article about the need for radical innovation in education. @unclasses and @teachstreet are a good start.
My Motivations
I’m motivated by collaborating with my friends, family, and neighbors to work towards a shared vision of a better neighborhood, city, and world.
I’m motivated my merging science and technology with the natural world. Designing systems that allow nature and humans to compliment one another.
I’m motivated by growing myself every day. Being so happy and healthy the people around...
February 2010
2 posts
October 2009
1 post
“The new foundation for scaling a large org is providing authentic value that...”
– Andrew Kortina
Read the full post entitled: Community and Camaraderie are the Foundations of 21st Century Business
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September 2009
1 post
“You might be innovative — but are you awesome? For most, the answer is: no. Game...”
– The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (via davemorin) (via papilicious) (via hiten)
July 2009
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“The first step, then, is for designers to begin to imagine themselves as leaders...”
– http://www.theoverlap.org/blog/?p=43
June 2009
1 post
“So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it...”
– Obama’s Cairo message to Muslim world. Transcript - Lynn Sweet (via rahmin)
May 2009
29 posts
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rahmin:
I Wanted To Change The World By Unknown Monk, 1100 A.D.
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I...
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“Nothing will work, but everything might. Now is the time for experiments, lots...”
– Clay Shirky, again (via betaworks)
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“In the pursuit of knowledge, something is added every day. In the pursuit of...”
– Twitter / Zappos.com CEO -Tony: “In the pursuit of knowled … (via rahmin)
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“Why does Wall St’s business as usual seem to be gaming the rules, gambling away...”
– The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (via brooksjordan)
tedr says: steal your face right off your head
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Everyone loves to be a shepherd of talent →
“The act of finding a mentor is actually the act of showing someone you have talent and they can help you find it. It’s very, very hard to land in the limelight on your own. So many studies of success – from Fortune 500 executives to startup entrepreneurs – all show that a key factor is finding people to help you navigate a system that requires many more skills than any one, single person...
“With a quality as elusive as cool, there is the temptation to assume that it...”
– The Cool Presidency (via pegobry)(via mandalay)
HOPE.
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Renegage (Obama’s CIA code name) Must have needed some refining after hanging with “street urchins” in indonesia.
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“One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can...”
– AlphaTrends (via rahmin)
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“It’s never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff. As of now,...”
– David Deida, from The Way of the Superior Man. You can laugh at the title but the book is phenomenal. (via jakelodwick) (via tylerhwillis)
Beautiful. I still think the hard part is figuring out ‘what you want to really do’ - but that could just be me.
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and...”
– Dr. Seuss (via jonathanmoore)
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rahmin:
If the last 100 years was about gaining efficiency and innovation through scale and tight control of resources and communications, the next 100 will be about finding more fluid, open models of collaboration and cooperation. Playing on this new field has different rules. It requires shifting our concept of business from a legalistic model to a social one. Social contracts are very...
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“[Fred] Wilson suggests the media universe comes down to a blend of paid media...”
– Image by niallkennedy via Flickr
Earned Media May Be Efficient, but It’s Far from Free
Rafer sez: We also need to discuss the complementary idea of Earned Access. Part and partial of the paid access that Journalism Online will attempt, the significant social sharers need to be compensated for...
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Five rules for getting your ideas off the ground
rahmin:
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Engage in personal projects and things that you love.
Share your ideas and listen to other people’s.
Prioritize your projects so you don’t sabotage yourself by trying to do everything.
Do what makes sense.
Be proactive.
via Nicole Wong via The 99% Conference
“In a similar way the structure of a building determines the activity of those...”
– Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks: Why Facebook will go Fully Asymmetric - Bokardo (via hiten)
I aboslutely agree with this. If fb does ‘man up’ to a full follow model, very powerful move.
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As Mark Puncus said last year at f8 “Don’t F this one up Facebook”
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it...”
– Bruce Lee (via kareem)
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“Third, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance...”
– Peter F. Drucker (via jakelodwick) (via brevitic)
Again, the battle is to know oneself.
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“Only when the brain is confronted with stimuli that it has not encountered...”
– Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity - Rewiring the Creative Mind | Page 2 | Fast Company
Serendipity explained through neuroscience. Embrace randomness, it’s good for you.
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8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your... →
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Hello Health, Jay Parkinson on what medicine / primary care should be.
I’ve been digging Hello Health ever since Tyler shared his story of sitting next to Jay on a connecting flight out of SXSW. And Jay is on Tumblr himself. Awesome.
Hey Jay, when does the branch office open up in SF?
Huge potential here. Combine with an insurance prividers and health monitoring mobile apps...
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xraymachine:
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the...
“So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention...”
– A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works (via hiten)
Rafer sez: There’s no reason that marketing budgets, including social marketing budgets, are inherently a bad idea or unproductive. It requires that competent marketing types apply those budgets to products that some market...
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Bike Safety
As I was biking home with a friend tonight, she exclaimed: You know, I really ought to get a light. She wasn’t wearing a helmet either.
As we split ways, I rode faster, more vigorously, and likely more recklessly. I did however, have a helmet. It occurred to me that in this situation, I was, based on my riding style, likely to be better off without a light. My riding style contains...
“Unschooling, by contrast, starts with the realization that you ‘own’ your time,...”
– How to Save the World (via unclasses)
kareem:
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made of.”
— Bruce Lee
Allowing Others to Be →
kareem:
Controlling behavior in the negative sense comes from a tendency to reach beyond our own boundaries and into the lives of others. Many people do this with the rationalization that they are helping… If you have control issues, you will see that in one or more areas of your life, you feel the need to interfere with what is happening rather than just allowing events to unfold… Controlling...
April 2009
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March 2009
1 post
“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are...”
– There are fewer and fewer people who can convincingly tell such a lie. — Clay Shirky is a lot smarter than you and I are. I still blame Denton!