January 2010
12 posts
“It’s so tempting to start drawing maps for people. It makes them happy and it...”
– seth godin
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Year in Cities, 2009
My favorite post of the year. Here’s a list of cities I stayed in, in roughly chronological order. An asterisk means I stayed there more than once on non-consecutive days.
Also see the 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 editions.
Five continents in calendar 2009. Though between Nov 08 and Oct 09 I visited all 7 :)
Kruger Park, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Jaipur, India
Agra,...
“It’s so hard when contemplated in advance and so easy when you do it.”
– Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, via Brad Feld
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via tedr)
I love this quote:
Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous...
“We are hard-wired to be altruistic. Put another way, it’s difficult for humans...”
– NYtimes: Our Basic Human Pleasures - Food, Sex and Giving
“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact...”
– Jessica Darling, Sloppy Firsts (via itchycosmicpocket) (via leeshiebean) (via quote-book) (via hiten)
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to...”
– Alan Cohen (via Elissa)
What really motivates workers →
Mastery of meaningful work motivates workers more than compensation (a secret for hiring startups - sell the meaning of the startup, not the job’s daily tasks):A close analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries, together with the writers’ daily ratings of their motivation and emotions, shows that making progress in one’s work — even incremental progress — is more frequently associated with...
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the...”
– Helen Keller
