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Every Thursday night, around 2 AM, my bedroom window would start rattling violently. At first I blamed the garbage truck. But the shaking was too specific. Other windows stayed quiet. Eventually I realized it wasn’t the engine. It was the compaction cycle: the hydraulic ram crushing garbage at a
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Discover how replacing 'why' with 'what for' can transform your conversations from past-focused to future-oriented. Learn this simple yet powerful questioning technique that leads to more meaningful dialogue and better outcomes.
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Alison Gopnik [bolds are mine]: A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions. We have been doing this for as long as we’ve been human. Language itself you
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Simon Sarris: The Muse arrives to us most readily during creation, not before. Homer and Hesiod invoke the Muses not while wondering what to compose, but as they begin to sing. If we are going to call upon inspiration to guide us through, we have to first begin the work.
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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen in The Yale Review: The first is to view failure in individualized and atomized terms, blaming the losers for their losses. The second, which is equally insidious, is to be so disdainful of failure that it insists that what looks like failure in fact is a
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Pat Kelly vividly remembers when he first knew he was a "thought leader": In 2005, I met another 'thought leader' and I asked him how he became a 'thought leader' and he said 'I don't know.' It was then that
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We are a few days into the invasion of a sovereign country by another sovereign country… and the senseless deaths that ensue. I’m not one for pronouncements but if we can learn anything from history it is this: if we don’t discuss our differences, if we don’t
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Nicolas Carr: As Shoshana Zuboff [*] has pointed out, it doesn’t even have the benefit of being true. A product has dignity as a made thing. A product is desirable in itself. That doesn’t describe what we have come to represent to the operators of the machines that gather
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By far the most substantial piece of content I read recently is from Jay Rosen. He is a press critic who writes about the media and politics. He is a professor at the School of Journalism at New York University. Here is how it starts: https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/
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You don’t. You never do. Leading by example is based on a faulty assumption: that people will see only the behavior you want them to see and follow only the behavior you want them to follow. News flash: the people who work with you see everything. They see not
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With dimwitted politicians across the political spectrum, our celebrity-crazed culture, the destructive power of unrestrained capitalism, the groaning of the despoiled earth, the cries of the back row that go unheard, the disillusionment and disorientation of a society that desperately needs to be rehumanized—all of this requires broken