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christine's brain: Children learn what they live →
If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
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Froth & Bubble: startup vs corporate ... specialize more... →
In corporations, as you move up the ladder, you get more and more general. Your goal is to specialize less, and manage more. In startups, it’s the reverse. The goal is to get more and more specialized in your role.
At the beginning, the team must all be generalist. I was (…am?) the product…
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Froth & Bubble: Struggle Unknown →
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force it body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no…
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Back of Mind: Don't Be *That* Guy →
We all know him…he retweets every positive mention of himself, checks into every hot startup he visits, overstates his role at each professional stop, name drops throughout conversation, and blogs about topics that allow for poorly-concealed celebrations of self.
I won’t lie, there’s an…
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Photo reblogged from Zach Klein's Blog with 189 notes
I spend four days a week up in the woods about 90 miles outside of New York City. I’m building a house.
There is a small town nearby, it’s really just a four-corners, and the other day I attended my first town meeting, of any town ever. I was surprised to find their government so earnest, to observe my neighbors practice an atom-sized form of community organization with such devotion. It made me feel that my world view is one-dimensional, that for my entire adult life I’ve focused on Internet enterprise and I use a lens that obscures everyone as a user — and here are many people succeeding with basic democracy and civility, and they’re ignorant to the optimism for technology solving all that I represent.
Related, being up there makes me realize that when I’m in the city I judge myself, and my peers, by my and their abilities to be productive and wealthy. When I’m away, the criteria for what makes me successful is far more complex: What have I done for my spouse, my neighbor, my community? How have I worked to rise the tide, to improve the livelihood for those immediately around me, how can I serve them? — I wonder. I feel good when I prioritize these thoughts.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Have had a tumblr account for a long time i never bothered to use…till this.
Make Some Noise
This wasn’t really part of the plan, but since this track is out there we wanted to let you hear it here first, or maybe second. Enjoy
Mike
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