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What if everything is as it should be?
What if everything is as it should be?
Phoebe and I were having masala dosas for breakfast at Mylari a few weeks ago, and were talking about whether to go to the Wisdom 2.0 conference in February. I b…
Creating products with a spirit of enlightenment
And now, instead of writing stories about how Snapchat is doomed, people are wondering: What's wrong with product development at Facebook?
- Why is Facebook innovation so bad that it…
There can be no strategy without hope
Brad Feld quoting Dov Seidman:
And while they are right that hope is technically not a strategy, inspirational leaders understand one final thing: that without hope there is no strategy. “
I've had…
When we become more fearful with time, even though we succeeded the first time
When my son was two, we went to the swimming pool, where he would walk up on the 3 meter high diving board, jump into the water below, swim to the edge of the pool, climb out of the water, climb the s…
Courage
What is courage? I've often been asked about where I get my courage from - the courage to start my own company, remain self-employed through ups and downs, move across the world, start new practices, …
Plagiarism
What's happening right now in the US with all the shootings remind me of an old statistic about suicide: That in the days after a widely publicized suicide, the suicide rate goes up dramatically. Why?…
Placebo
About 20 years ago, fresh out of high school, I was at a late night jazz concert with a friend who had just begun to study medicine. I started talking about one of my favorite topics: The placebo effe…
Jung: People will do anything to avoid facing their souls
Carl Jung:
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by…
In India they want you to honk your horn
Where I'm from, honking is considered offensive. Here it's considered a courtesy, considerate, even.
My guess is the reason is that the traffic is so crazy you have to focus your full attention forwar…
Copyright is the opposite of property rights
It is quite possible to argue for the copyright monopoly from a purely utilitarian, protectionist, or mercantilist perspective, but not from a “property is good” perspective: you wil…