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Love the mission page on SEOmoz:

Generous

Gut check:

Am I being as helpful as I can? Am I giving back to the community?

Really nice way to present them, too, with gut checks for each one.

Here’s a few highlights from Forrester CEO George Coloney’s Davos round-up:

6) Desmond Tutu is one of the great men of the world. My favorite quote:  ” If we are hollow morally, our world will collap…

If we’re going to do anything, let alone start a business, something that’s so demanding and difficult, almost as hard as being in a relationship or having kids, we might want to start by asking ourse…

Money is not real. It’s something we invented. It’s juts paper, pieces of metal, and numbers in a computer, that we have endowed with power and meaning.

Here’s the story of one man who quit money.

Richard Feynman in “The pleasure of finding things out”:

I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which mig…

On Friday, I got a letter from the authorities in Denmark that my name is no longer Lars Holger Pind, it is now Calvin Jeremia Conaway.

That naturally begs the question: Why did you change your name? …

The Dalai Lama, quoted in I Am, the movie:

Question for the Dalai Lama: “What’s the most important meditation we can do now?”

Answer: “Critical thinking, followed by action. Discern what your world i…

Timothy Egan for the New York Times:

Sobriety, laudable in many respects, does imply rigidity of thought. The best presidents were open-minded, and generally open to a drink. The nondrinkers, at leas…

Jonathan Mead on Illuminated Mind:

Don’t try to be the next Steve Jobs or the next Maynard Keenan. Be the next you. Explore the uncharted stretches of your own path — the one that’s waiting to be rel…