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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward,...
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A haiku from the article: A Case for Getting Far, Far Away
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Oh hey my #Ouya arrived! #gaming
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Saul Bass’s Bell System Logo Redesign (Pitch Video): ...
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wugs:
rock bottom is when youtube comments are more intelligent than your government
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Bobby Cannavale on Prince Street.
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Cool time lapse video of the Washington Monument earthquake scaffolding construction project, from March 20 to May 13, 2013. Video shot from the...
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“Most people do not openly force us into roles, they merely suggest that we adopt them through their reactions to us, and hence surreptitiously...”
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Julianne Moore - Rika #8 by Helena Christensen, Spring/Summer 2013
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6 posts tagged happiness
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing,” Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, “the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. -Deepak Chopra
“I was amazed to discover that, according to The Atlantic, women still can’t have it all. Bah! Humbug! Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund—I don’t even have a savings account. It’s not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One Night Stand of a Life - The Cut
This is just a devastating essay and, sadly, one I can relate to. There are a lot of quotable parts here, but this one probably gets at the article’s essence the best.
H/t Rubenfeld
Why build a happiness map? The Startup Bus answer, co-creator Ricky Robinett says, is that people might one day pay to track their happiness like they do their fitness. There’s also an opportunity for brands to sponsor some happiness.
-Cheaper than therapy
Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership. If you make content that is the intellectual equivalent of gummy bears, your site will appear to grow quickly. Advertisers reward size, and growing fast is expected in most places I’ve seen. Last month I visited Xeni Jardin, my blog-sister from Boing Boing and she said to me, “Only cancer and bullshit websites grow fast.” It’s happened to TV with reality shows, radio with clear channel, and it’s happening to words online. I’ve never seen a world-class sized publication that was founded in the past decade do world class quality work. It’s not because the people running them are dumb–it’s because they don’t have enough time to think their work through because there’s no short term incentive to. There’s an excuse there aren’t enough resources to go around, but that’s bullshit. It just takes a little confidence in the long game.
And as the jobless generation grows up, we realize the grand betrayal of the false idols of passion. This philosophy no longer works for us, or at most, feels incomplete. So what do we do? I propose a different frame of reference: Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.
Putting problems at the center of our decision-making changes everything. It’s not about the self anymore. It’s about what you can do and how you can be a valuable contributor. People working on the biggest problems are compensated in the biggest ways. I don’t mean this in a strict financial sense, but in a deeply human sense. For one, it shifts your attention from you to others and the wider world. You stop dwelling. You become less self-absorbed. Ironically, we become happier if we worry less about what makes us happy.
The good thing is that there are a lot of big problems to go by: climate change, sustainability, poverty, education, health care, technology, and urbanization in emerging markets. What big problem serves as your compass? If you’re a young leader and you haven’t articulated this yet, here are some things you can do.
