More important than beanbags and coffee machines (though they are nice), are how employers recognise the needs for work-life balance, the importance of time for child-rearing and family life, and the ability of workers to easily move between the spaces of their lives. Employers should be asking how they fit into the ecology of everyday rhythms of t

The foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. - Eckhardt Tolle

I’m reading a wonderful book by the French Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard. He muses on the subject of happiness, and a book he later wrote on the subject: he captures it well: “My book was to be a work of interdisciplinary synthesis, taking into account the views of great thinkers of the past, in the West as in the East, as well as research on “wel

“Pleasure is the happiness of the fool; happiness is the pleasure of the wise.”

-Jules Barney d’Aurevilly

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

-Jack Kornfeld

The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives. - Tara Brach

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.

Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."

That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.

There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."

The effort to try and feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. -Oliver Burkeman