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Flow of life
Life has a certain natural flow to it. When we push too hard, when we struggle, when we’re being too forceful, it eludes us. When we stop trying altogether, when we stop, when we give up, it eludes us…
A guide to integrating spirituality and entrepreneurship
I’ve been trying for a while to nail down what it is that Conscious Startups wants to be about.
Last night, I had a realization.
There’s a lot of people who are attracted to spirituality, who are alre…
The spirituality of Steve Jobs
I’ve long been aware that Steve Jobs had a much deeper spirituality than most in the tech industry, but the latest leak from his biography, due out tomorrow, shows ever more than I’d expected.
So appa…
Engineering out the soul
Flipboard CEO at Web 2.0 in San Francisco yesterday:
“We as an industry have gotten very good at using the data and looking at every square inch of the screen and making it maximally efficient,” he s…
Rails tip: Get AckMate to search .scss files
The fix is easy: Add this to your ~/.ackrc:
--type-add=css=.scss
That does the trick.
Chee…
Two minutes with Steve
Michael Sippey on the culture of excellence at Apple:
While from the seats or the web stream those two minutes may seem quick, each of those segments were the result of 40-50 hours of preparation and…
Speaking to our true selves
It was the first commercial I’d ever seen in my life, that actually spoke to me, my true self, and not just to whatever short-term, trivial needs I had going on that day (…
RIP, Steve
One thing that struck me about the death of Steve Jobs was that it came the very day after the new iPhone announcement. He has always had a knack for getting the timing right, from the smallest of the…
Recording live calls
Google's patent wars
John Gruber quoting Philip Elmer-DeWitt:
The difference is that Apple actually invented the technology it accused HTC — and by proxy, Google — of “stealing” (to use Steve Jobs’ verb). One of the pate…