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The Beautiful vs. Sublime, Instagram Edition 23 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Fun musings on the trend of Instagram photos of sunsets: The genre has turned into a commonplace—a grab at easy beauty. My friend, an amateur photographer, likened shooting sunset pictures to “eating...
The Problem With Walking Meetings 20 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
Walking meetings are all the rage. Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, best friends for years, went on walks together around Palo Alto. Jeff Weiner wrote that he’s converting many 1:1 meetings to walking m...
Quiet Celebrations 14 Aug 2013 | 12:39 pm
Think of “celebration” and, if you’re like me, you think of athletes celebrating a win on the field. You think of a soccer team winning the Olympic gold medal and rushing the field, hugging, screaming...
Book Review: Help! by Oliver Burkeman 9 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
A few months ago I reviewed Oliver Burkeman’s recent book The Antidote, which is a powerful meditation against conventional self-help gospel and in favor of a different, darker sort of path for happin...
Would You Rather Enjoy Today, or Have Great Memories Tomorrow and Forever? 6 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
Would you rather enjoy today, or have great memories tomorrow and forever? Should you optimize decision making in life to have great experiences in the moment or to create great memories to look back...
What Questions Are You Thinking About? 2 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
I like Robin Hanson’s advice to frame a conversation this way — it can be a telling litmus test: I know many folks who consider themselves intellectuals. I guess they think that in part because if yo...
What I’ve Been Reading 27 Jul 2013 | 11:35 am
Books, books, books. 1. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer. Few writers could produce brief character sketches of about a dozen or so people, break up each sketch int...
The Power of the Word “Yet” 23 Jul 2013 | 03:22 am
Suppose your boss pulls you aside and tells you: “You don’t have the right skills for the project.” Then suppose a different situation, where your boss tells you: “You don’t have the right skills for...
We Flit About Joyfully in the Light 21 Jul 2013 | 03:22 am
Imagine a vast hall in Anglo-Saxon England, not long after the passing of King Arthur. It is the dead of winter and a fierce snowstorm rages outside, but a great fire fills the space within the hall w...
Knowledge & Networks Enabling More Youth Entrepreneurship 15 Jul 2013 | 10:27 am
Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurship, practiced around the world, is hot. There are several reasons why starting a tech startup is easier and cheaper and therefore as popular as ever today: the vanis...
