Simplicity | The Book of LifeWe often find simplicity attractive. And yet we’re not quite sure why. Simplicity just seems naturally and immediately ‘nice’. This vagueness is understandable, but it means we have a dangerously weak hold on an important element of our satisfaction. What follows is a short diagnostic of simplicity:One: HomeMODESTYCALMFOCUSKINDNESS Two: FoodGOODNESSREASSURANCE Three: LeisureAPPRECIATIONTEMPERANCESOCIAL CONFIDENCE Four: [...]
O nos dedicamos a formar o nos dedicamos a informar. No se pueden hacer las dos cosas.El Inversor: Educación 3D • Pijamasurfeducación, o enseñanza, o aprendizaje, didáctica, pedagogía, conocimiento, saber, instrucción … esas palabras se nos han gastado y los conceptos que suponen o podrían suponer están cada vez más confusos y mezclados. Necesitamos una matriz [...]
coopeticiónCo-society | Dia Eroski: Competing to sell, cooperating to buy. - Co-society
A pesar de los muy interesantes planteamientos, yo sigo pensando que mejor ir "ayudando" de entrada, aunque además haya que arreglar las cosas a más niveles.¿En verdad crees que la filantropía y la caridad nos benefician a largo plazo? • Pijamasurfmás allá de desalentarte a participar con microdonaciones, o donaciones cuantiosas, en causas caritativas o [...]
development secrecy, hyper optimization, supplier negotiating powerOn Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage | steve cheney – technology, business & strategySo… making chips serves as the moat around untold strategic advantages: development secrecy, hyper optimization, supplier negotiating power, etc. And all the while smartphone market volume serves as ‘R&D lead gen’ for new products in entirely new [...]
"la búsqueda es más importante que el objeto buscado"10 frases del “Tao del Jeet Kune Do”, el libro que estaba escribiendo Bruce Lee antes de morir –PijamasurfMe muevo y no me muevo. Soy como la luna bajo las olas que siempre vuelven y golpean.La libertad muestra para el hombre el momento en que a este [...]
Science and Buddhism Agree: There is No 'You' There | Big Thinkif you train your mind, you can change your brain. the concept anatta is centered on the idea that there is no consistent self … Anatta doesn’t mean there’s no you; it just means that you are constantly changing, constantly evolving as Tara Brach says, our thoughts are “real, but not true” we can [...]
Parece que lo que el trabajo nos enseña nos ayuda a crecer interiormente, de manera que podemos aplicarlo en la vida "personal". Work and Maturity | The Book of LifeContrary to the Romantic view, it might be that we are quite often simply the better version of ourselves at work. We’re more dignified and more patient, [...]
‘We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing emotions have to be paid for.’ - Oscar Wilde…imagine that I want you to like me, but don’t want to pay the true price of friendship. I want to feel we’re friends (which is a very nice feeling). [...]
We are still learning how to live in this information ecosystem, and how to build the ecosystem for humans rather than for the information. How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less BusyUnderstanding Our Brains, Part 1: Dopamine, pleasure, and learning bad habits…Humans brains, it turns out, are built to privilege new information over just [...]