January 2012
1 post
Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama
Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three R’s: - Respect for self, - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them...
December 2011
6 posts
yongfook: Design is Horseshit! →
yongfook:
In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic
I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design in all forms - copywriting in particular fascinates me. I’ve never called myself a designer.
Here’s my pitch. This…
The "Oh Shit" Moment
Posted on December 19, 2011 by Josh Linkner
You probably know it well. That sinking feeling in your gut where you feel like you just got punched by Tyson. Heart-pounding, head-throbbing, room-spinning agony. We’ve all been there. Perhaps it was losing a huge client, a key team member jumping ship, or a major technology glitch. Or maybe it was a sharp scolding from a boss, an unexpected job loss,...
Five New Management Metrics You Need To Know
(via Forbes)
This is a guest post from James Slavet of venture firm Greylock Partners. Slavet’s investments include Coupons.com, Groupon, One Kings Lane and Redfin. Greylock Partners has invested in Facebook, LinkedIn and Pandora..
After years of leading teams and then, at Greylock, watching some of the best startup CEOs in the world, I’ve learned that the most important metrics are often ones you...
The Highest High
There’s nothing higher than finding truth on your own.
All worlds were made, all barriers put in place, every veil over G‑dliness hung, and the soul plummeted from its pristine height into the confusion of this harsh world—
—all for this one thing alone: That you should uncover truth on your own.
(Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson)
November 2011
2 posts
“The Seven Stages of Our Personal Identity and Motivation
These stages can help...”
– Lolly Daskal
October 2011
2 posts
The Window
The Window
By Yanki Tauber
It happened before: a world drowning in violence awaited redemption. Waited for divine action, because man had done all that was in his power and the rest was up to G‑d.
Man waited in a sealed ark, but the ark had a window. And from the window a dove was dispatched to circle the skies, to agitate the heavens with its restless reconnaissance. For the next four thousand...
Perpetual Struggle
Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
Some think life is all about doing good and keeping away from evil. To them, struggle has no purpose of its own — to have struggled is to have failed. Success, they imagine, is a sweet candy with no trace of bitterness.
They are wrong, very wrong. Struggle is an opportunity to reach the ultimate, when darkness itself becomes...
September 2011
1 post
The Power of Not Thinking
Thinking has a profound effect. So does not thinking.
A mind obsessed with yesterday’s travesties, today’s aches and pains, and tomorrow’s dark clouds, creates problems where none exist.
It transforms daydreams into realities, molehills into monstrosities, innocent creatures into venomous snakes. All the more so when such words pass the lips into the tangible world we all share.
That is why...
August 2011
5 posts
1 tag
Change By Doing
People are not changed by arguments, nor by philosophy. People change by doing.
Introduce a new habit into your life, and your entire perspective of the world changes.
First do, then learn about what you are already doing.
~ by Tzvi Freeman. Based on teachings of the Rebbe
Chutzpah
The first thing you must know before anything else applies: Truth demands chutzpah. If what you are doing is the right thing to do, don’t give two cents about what others have to say.
Without that knowledge secure in your heart and soul, don’t imagine you can take a single step forward. Once you’ve passed its test, then you can begin to grow.
~ from the teachings of the Rebbe
“Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the...”
– Viktor E. Frankl - author of “Man’s Search for Meaning”
July 2011
5 posts
Earned Living
Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
All that can be cherished from this world, All that makes life worth living, Is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, Fashioned from its clay by your own craft, Fired in the kiln of your own heart.
That for which you bruised your hands and wearied your limbs, For which you beat back the beast inside you, ...
The Art of Momentum : Why Your Ideas Need Speed →
I love this! There’s a great Afrikaans expression that exemplifies this idea: “Vok Voort!”
June 2011
2 posts
The Field of Your Mind
By Tzvi Freeman
A creative mind is a fertile field. But that may simply mean that the weeds are taller and grow faster.
First, soften your mind’s soil, plough its furrows. Open it to the wisdom that rains down from the heavens; let the dew of Torah sink into your soul, the seeds laid by tzadikim enter your heart. Learn to lie still as they awaken and take root. Quietly await the spring.
In...
May 2011
4 posts
Surviving Failure
There is only one thing that can put you further ahead than success, and that is surviving failure.
When you are successful, you are whole and complete. That is wonderful, but you cannot break out beyond your own universe.
When you fail, you are broken. You look at the pieces of yourself lying on the ground and say, “This is worthless.”
Now you can escape. The shell is broken,...
The Story Of The Universe
You build a dream house.
You start with a dream. The dream becomes a plan. The plan becomes a lot of dirty work. The dirty work becomes a house. If you are successful, it is the house of your dreams.
Dream, plan, dirty work, success. Why is this the fundamental strategy of all human endeavor? Because it is the story of the universe.
~ Tzvi Freeman
Start Simple
If you want to understand something to its depths, first approach it with the mind of a five-year-old.
Ask the innocent and obvious questions and make things clear and simple. Through that clarity, you will perceive the depths.
Tzvi Freeman - Chabad.org
April 2011
4 posts
Reaching Higher / Escape
By Tzvi Freeman:
Man, on his own, cannot reach higher than his own fingertips. He cannot break out of his own skin, he cannot lift himself up by pulling at his own hair. All of his achievements are tied to his ego. All that he may comprehend is defined by his own subjective perception. He is a prisoner by virtue of existence.
So G-d threw Man a rope. He gave him tasks to fulfill that are...
The Beggar
A wealthy man was fond of a particular beggar. Every year, before Pesach he gave the poor man 500 rubles.
Once, when the poor man came for his annual Pesach donation, the rich man gave him only 250 rubles.
“What is the meaning of this?” asked the beggar. “This is only half of what you usually give me.”
“I’m sorry, but I must cut my expenses,” replied...
March 2011
9 posts
Truly Small
By Tzvi Freeman
The truly humble person is not one who feels worthless or inferior.
True smallness is what happens when a person stops thinking, “What will be with me?” and instead thinks, “What is needed of me right now?”
Why The Jews?
By Alan M. Dershowitz:
When celebrities are drunk, on drugs or just high on their own egos, they often engage in rants. These days many such rants are captured on cell phone videos or audio tapes and go viral on the Internet. Nothing surprising there. What is surprising to many is that the rant du jour seems to be directed against Jews.
Consider the former Dior designer, John Galliano, who was...
Faith & Experience
By Tzvi Freeman
Faith is not the result of experience.
On the contrary, faith is an act that comes from within and creates experience.
Things happen because you trust they will.
Understanding Wonder
by Tzvi Freeman
That there are matters we don’t understand is obvious—how could the finite intellect of an inherently subjective mortal being, imprisoned within the confines of time and space, be expected to fathom the infinite wisdom of the Creator?
The great wonder is that there are matters we CAN understand.
Humble Compassion
By Tzvi Freeman
There is compassion that feeds the ego and there is compassion that humbles it.
Compassion that feeds the ego is a sense of pity for those who stand beneath you.
Compassion that humbles is born of a deeper understanding of the order of things:
When you understand that your fellow man is suffering in order that you may be privileged to help him — then you are truly...
Whole and Half
By Tzvi Freeman
To become one with another person, you must first recognize that you are only half.
To become one with the Infinite, you must give Him your all, knowing always that it is but a broken half.
The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology -... →
February 2011
4 posts
“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other’s...”
– Steve Jobs (via jacks)
“We stand at a unique time in our history, the rise of the internet and computer...”
– AnonNews.org : Everything Anonymous
The Prison of Stuff
By Tzvi Freeman.
The stuff you own owns you.
You put your soul and being into acquiring it. Your heart jumps at the thought of it disappearing. It is the tether that ties you to the ground.
You could give it all away and lead an ascetic life. But you will be no more than a coward. A slave who runs away is still a slave until he becomes his own master.
Here’s how to become your own...
The New Financial Matchmakers
The rise of private market networks is changing the capital markets and opening up new opportunities for business leaders and innovators.
by Bob Rice
In that ancient, un-networked world where public stock markets evolved, such markets were the only way that nascent companies could reach huge numbers of potential investors and that investors could trade with one another. Investment bankers and...
January 2011
7 posts
A Manifesto for Social Business
A Manifesto for Social Business
Posted by Graham Hill on Nov 10, 2009
The nature of business is inexorably changing. The changes are being driven by a number of factors: ranging from the need to compete differently after the recession, through the availability of huge volumes of new information, to the rapidly growing influence of social customers.
I would almost go as far to say that we are...
bijan sabet: Some thoughts about failure →
bijan:
Many people suffer from a fear of failure.
I know people that use this fear as a way to avoid risks. They won’t take a job at an early stage startup. Or they will sell a company early because they are afraid of looking and feeling bad if it ultimately doesn’t turn out well.
There are countless…
Intelligence is not just IQ. It’s knowing how to unite worlds, my world with your world, the spiritual world with the physical world.
- Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
10 Must Read Life Lessons from Buddha:
1. Its Okay to Start Small
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Every artist was once an amateur.”
We all start small, do not despise small beginnings. If you’re consistent, and if you’re patient, you will succeed! No one succeeds over night; success belongs to those who are willing to start small and patiently work until their jug is filled.
2. Thoughts Become Things
“All...