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by spodek 8y ago
I'll answer your question first, then suggest something I consider more important, having survived several life-shattering crises. - The Tao Te Ching, especially Ron Hogan's translation (freely downloadable here: http:/&#x2F
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I teach and coach people to get jobs through performance and it works. Schools teach people to react, take tests, and show how great they are. For a posted opening, you're presenting yourself as a commodity -- a slightly shinier one, y
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> I was a corporate restaurant consultant. Here’s how the sausage gets made. Didn't even make two sentences without a tired old cliché, maybe supposed to be clever because of the food connection. Sounds like a venture capitalist.
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Human remains go back in Africa 300,000 years and they're suggesting the oldest song is around 3,400 years old? Did I miss something? Are they suggesting the first song was also written? ... that there weren't songs before they st
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by spodek 8y ago
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
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I find David Allen's work most helpful here. He points out that more valuable than time is mental freedom. You can schedule all the time in the world to solve a problem. If something else occupies your mind, progress may never come. On
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30 Years of Love in the Time of Cholera(medium.com)
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I've accepted that they are a part of living in a system that doesn't value my privacy as much as corporate profit when the interests conflict. I've registered with Do Not Call and I don't answer calls beginning with my
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It could store even more years' worth if we decrease our emissions. I don't mean a general "we." I mean you, reading these words, and me. You can decrease your emissions, plastic pollution, etc. No technology needed. No
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Sounds like the boy scouts in real life. It seems to happen in both directions.
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Socrates and Plato worked together, as did Plato and Aristotle. Was Aristotle too young to connect with Socrates or did they meet? The Impressionists. The Lost Generation with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Elliot, and everyone passing through Pari
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What changed that North Korea would be serious this time? I can't think of much. On the contrary, they seem stronger. Maybe they feel they have enough to negotiate more favorable terms than ever before. Maybe the borders have become so
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HN being mostly male and as a guy, I've seen this discussion on the frustrations of online dating and how the system evolves many times. Are there similar threads in mostly female communities to see their perspective?
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The article recounts Hillman predicting many problems and suggesting solutions, but not getting them implemented. If we want to solve environmental problems we have to separate science and engineering from leadership. Scientists' and e
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> It is much harder to get people to do the right thing when it is a significant burden. Beliefs like this are why I focus on leadership first. There are many examples where we choose difficult things because of the reward - Sports and e
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If you value how you affect other people, you may find that acting on that value improves your life. Simply prioritizing yourself and only caring about economic incentives would motivate stealing when you know you won't get caught. You
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If I read you right, beyond the environmental reasons and beyond the financial results, you sound happier than expected at acting on your values. I think people don't realize the happiness and emotional reward that comes with acting on
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> there must be some incentive My experience and observation say otherwise. I have no incentive not to litter when I know no one will fine me. Still I get up and walk trash to garbage cans. Even with all the litter around, most people
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The world isn't so static that you have to accept things as they are. People are behind every decision and you can talk to those people. That's why my podcast is leadership first. Yes, it's hard to change a system and easie
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From being asked this question in various forms many times, I've found the answer is in the process, not my specific actions, which are tuned to my life and circumstances. The answer is that you start with what you can. Do. Act. Experi
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In a nutshell: Except for all the problems, this place is great! That's the way it's been since the start and likely will be as far as we can tell. Now let me tell you about how I traveled all over the place and talked to people w
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by spodek 9y ago
> the US has stalled or moved backward, at least the Federal level. It has at the individual level too for most individuals. Try to get someone to consider flying less. Look at the size of vehicles on the road. How much meat we eat. Ai
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I've shared a ton on my blog, Inc. column, and my podcast, Leadership and the Environment. At the risk of flooding you: Avoiding food packaging: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/avoiding-food-packagin... (the
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You reading these words right now can reduce your consumption of plastic and fossil fuels, probably by 90% without any decrease in your quality of life. More likely you'll improve it. On a personal level, my commitment to avoid package
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Not sure if relevant, but it looked like the difference between most Toys 'R' Us products and centuries in a landfill were about a minute of smile followed by boredom. Bright, colorful, and passive. https://duckduckgo.c
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The article and this thread explicitly call out racism. The terms race or racism show up a dozen times (now more), but sexism only appears once. In terms of criminal justice, men are treated significantly more harshly. The man's sex se
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by spodek 9y ago
You mean since Rupert Murdoch bought it or some other event?
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In college in the late 80s, amid a global movement to avoid doing business with companies doing business with apartheid South Africa, I stopped buying Coca-cola products. Years later, Mandela became president and my conscience felt clear ab
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Can we estimate in any way about how happy these people were? I doubt there's an objective measure, but I feel like how to be happy and to live a good life are among of the main goals of philosophy. Are they? Did many of them succeed?
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Life made the disaster.

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