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Claudiu
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understanding of how your customers feel, and why, offers you a major opportunity to find clues about changing priorities and future profit growth opportunities. Many organizations, blinded by their traditional way of doing business, fail to stay on top of their customers’ key priorities.
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
From Franz Kafka’s letters (inspo for when the going gets tough, just do something/anything):
Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.
If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a community to forge a fully fledged adult. And this is largely due to the fact that whenever a committed group of open hearted individuals find themselves in true community, then they tend to actively assist each other in unearthing and developing their latent skills and abilities.
Joe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
So what is stopping me from stepping outside my habitual crap?
My mind, my limited mind.
The story of life is the story of the same basic mind readdressing the same problems in the same already discredited ways.
Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
Americans used to live within “place-based networks” of clubs, churches, schools, commerce, and recreation that overlapped, wrapping individuals in social support. Local networks protected individuals from isolation and loneliness.
Those networks have largely disappeared, replaced by networks based outside the local community. We shop and interact... See more
Those networks have largely disappeared, replaced by networks based outside the local community. We shop and interact... See more
Why we need to design community into neighborhoods
“In the west today most people are going to have two or three marriages, two or three committed relationships in their adult life. It’s just that some of us are going to do it with the same person.”
– Esther Perel
There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be,... See more