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Comment on Negotiation Skill: Leaving Some Value on the Table, or, Why Facebook’s IPO Failed by Danny Silverman

Danny Silverman — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:50:29 +0000

Of course, if you take The Social Network as truth (and it may only be as true as Charlton Heston’s Ten Commandments is an accurate depiction of the exodus), the move was very Zuckerberg-like: Ruthless and Self-centered. Good points made all around.

Comment on Urban Shinrin-yoku (都会の森林浴) : Top Places to Destress in the City by danspira

danspira — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:21:11 +0000

cf. 25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English: http://sobadsogood.com/2012/04/29/25-words-that-simply-dont-exist-in-english/ (well, some of these do exist in English... but still a good list... with some great comments too) cf. an older, annotated version of the list: http://facetcetera.blogspot.com/2012/05/28-words-that-dont-exist-in-english.html

Comment on There Are Two Kinds of People In The World: Those Who Think There Are Two Kinds of People In The World and Those Who Don’t by Pinche

Pinche — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:47:41 +0000

Thank you.

Comment on “Going to the Cloud” is a Psychological, Not a Technical Hurdle by danspira

danspira — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:46:02 +0000

More research on universal/non-universal human emotions: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/st_darwinfaces/

Comment on The DANdelion™ Effect by Urban Shinrin-yoku (都会の森林浴) : Top Places to Destress in the City « Meme Menagerie

Tue, 15 May 2012 03:15:08 +0000

[...] For example, Schadenfreude (delight in another person’s misfortune) and L’esprit d’escalier (coming up with a witty comeback too late, after the conversation), are words that perhaps only the Germans and the French could have come up with, and yet, these words have a certain je-ne-sais-quoi universal appeal (..and yes, I’m still on the lookout for a language that has deemed it important enough to describe The DANdelion™ Effect.). [...]

Comment on There’s No Such Thing as a Synonymous Synonym by Urban Shinrin-yoku (都会の森林浴) : Top Places to Destress in the City « Meme Menagerie

Tue, 15 May 2012 03:15:06 +0000

[...] Every language contains its own set of focal vocabularies, that is to say, a set a specialized words to describe — with great precision — the sorts of things that the culture considers important enough to elaborate upon. The old myth about “eskimos having words for snow” would be good example of this concept, were it not factually incorrect… at least compared to English, which has a flurry of its own flakey variants (hmmm… anyone know how many words for snow there are in Classical Arabic, or maybe the Saharan languages?) Typically, the economic activities of a given group of people will cause that group to generate large quantities of specialized words pertaining to their field of practice. For example, software programmers have their own vocabulary, as do lawyers, architects, herdsmen, dairy farmers, etc. However, outside of the area of expertise, such an expanded focal vocabulary does not typically serve much purpose (despite my belief that there are no true synonyms). [...]

Comment on Lao Tse vs. Ben Zoma — From the Tao Te Ching to Pirkei Avot: 誰是智者 ? איזהו חכם by danspira

danspira — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:45:41 +0000

One possible synthesized reading:

1) The moment you treat wisdom as a competition, you lose the competition. Embrace your blind spots as a source of potential.

2) Let go of what you can’t control. The more choice you exercise over your responses, the more power you have.

3) Wealth doesn’t come from what you can hold in your hands, but rather, what you are capable of receiving in your heart.

4) Arrogance and pride are ultimately self-defeating. Instead, play for the long term.

Comment on On the Importance of Brushing Elbows by Framework 18: Kotter’s 8-step change model « Framework Addict

Framework 18: Kotter’s 8-step change model « Framework Addict — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:02:55 +0000

[...] Source: danspira.com [...]

Comment on The Tao of Instructing, Teaching, Coaching & Leading by Lao Tse vs. Ben Zoma — From the Tao Te Ching to Pirkei Avot: 誰是智者 ? איזהו חכם « Meme Menagerie

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:50:28 +0000

[...] the Tao Te Ching and Pirkei Avot. One of the results that Google served up for me was my own post, http://danspira.com/2009/12/18/the-tao-of-instructing-teaching-coaching-leading/. Gee, thanks Google, now I really feel like I’m in a algorithmically-driven [...]

Comment on Serendipity Now! by danspira

danspira — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:55:38 +0000

By “plan regular moments of rest” (as one way to enable more serendipity) I mean “rest” as opposed to “work,” ie, not doing the kind of “work” that involves focus and directed energy towards building/achieving a specific, predetermined external goal. So yes, we can “rest” with friends… and I think you’re right, there’s LOTS of potential serendipity when we include other people in our unstructured, unprogrammed time. (Especially when we’re willing to go beyond predictable, ritualistic patterns of social interaction.)