Tag: 2018

Discipline was harsh and exacting: When students misbehaved, the teacher menacingly held a slate over their heads. If Rockefeller didn’t excel in class, it might have been in part because he lacked the bright boy’s exhibitionism, the yearning for gold stars; always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others, he was therefore free of […]

Precisely!” I hear Erik say. “You even used the term I like most for it: unplanned work. Firefighting is vividly descriptive, but ‘unplanned work’ is even better. It might even be better to call it ‘anti-work,’ since it further highlights its destructive and avoidable nature. “Unlike the other categories of work, unplanned work is recovery […]

Naturally, the community feels adamantly the best way to work is the the open way, a manner of working that emphasizes values and principles like transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, collaboration, and community. If you’re swimming with sharks, your fear might be legitimate. But fearing what people might think of you, especially during times of transformation, is […]

  Unique book – as it was never meant to be read by anyone. NATO commander General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, carried this book with him on deployments in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Bill Clinton is said to be reading it every year… First pusblished in 1909, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a […]

Following that lead, I have assembled these rules of thumb by asking these questions: How do our tools shape our destiny? What kind of an economy is our new technology suggesting? Any network has two ingredients: nodes and connections. In the grand network we are now assembling, the size of the nodes is collapsing while […]

Nathaniel Branden, the godfather of self-esteem – outlines the pillars to feel really great about yourself.  Memorable quotes As an extension of human intelligence, a machine substitutes the power of thought for the power of muscles. While making physical labor less demanding, it makes it more productive. As technological development keeps evolving, the ratio keeps […]