Living ethically

How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world

If we’re not careful, we can get stuck in the Disinterest Zone for years, maybe decades, simply because it’s what pays the bills.

Michael Hyatt • Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less

If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned toward eternity, it will be sufficient. Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves? If I speak strongly,... See more

J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

My answer to her was simple: Begin. Rekindle your creative craft for a few moments every day. Don’t worry about the rest right now; simply sit down and make something.

Chase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country’s future—and to us as a people

8 practical ways to make money with open-source projects.

1) Premium code: (Open-Core)

The open core model is a business strategy where you offer most of your code as free and open source.

However, an add-on commercial version is released as proprietary software.

Example: Dragula Pro by Zeno Rocha -($250K in 2.5 years )

2) Open SaaS:

Open SaaS allows... See more

Sachin Neravath on LinkedIn: I made $100k in revenue from an open-source JavaScript library in 14…

The humanities are our most treasured—and useless—“special skills.” And it is their very uselessness—their determination to remain uncorrupted by models of efficiency and optimization—that is their saving grace.

Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic

How do you write from the place in your gut where love dwells? The Sufi poet Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Gabe Berman • The Complete Bullshit-Free and Totally Tested Writing Guide How to Make Publishers, Agents, Editors & Readers Fall in Love With Your Work

“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
– allyi