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On the last day of class, Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, asks his students to turn those theoretical lenses on themselves to find cogent answers to three questions: Second, how can I be sure that my relationships with my spouse and my family become an enduring source of
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Worth pondering from James Shelley: Or, to put it another way: time spent on timelines amounts to time spent not living your life. Spending your time on a timeline is valuable only to the extent you define value in your life by the amount of your life spent reading about
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It's here! I mean, it is now available... and it is here.
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The Hockey Night in Canada theme song - Pepsi The social media guard - Coca Cola
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, October 1842: Thou shalt read Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Proclus, Jamblichus, Porphyry, Aristotle, Virgil, Plutarch, Apuleius, Chaucer, Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Chapman, Beaumont and Fletcher, Bacon, Marvell, More, Milton, Molière, Swedenborg, Goethe. via Laudator Temporis Acti.
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"[The best personal finance advice] can fit on a 3-by-5 index card, and is available for free in the library." "So, if you're paying someone for advice, almost by definition, you're probably getting the wrong advice because the correct advice is
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Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, is best known for his theory of disruptive innovation, in which he warns large, established companies of the danger of becoming too good at what they do best. People who knew him personally speak of a fine human being. RIP You
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John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by the end of the century, technology would have become so far advanced that developed economies would have a 15-hour workweek. What we got is pointless work.
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The quote in the title is from Simone Weil. When I pay attention I am giving my time. It prompts the question: Who, or what, receives my attention? Therein lies my treasure.
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Goethe positioned himself in front of the Empress and as she passed executed a deep bow. Beethoven pushed his top hat firmly on the back of his head, crossed his arms and strode past the Empress, intentionally snubbing her. Goethe was appalled, and their friendship was irretrievably damaged. See Classic
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The basic humanity of the opposition is not forgotten; civility is not abandoned; the sense that a community life must be carried on after the acerbic issues of the moment have been fought over and won is seldom very far out of mind; an awareness that the opposition will someday
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discovers points of real difficultyarrives at fresh solutions Not only in formal translation but also when living in multiple languages. It sometimes helps to think of a situation in a different language. See also: Discovery is not finding new lands, it’s something else