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I Am as God Created Me.
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I am attending to the crises of my time with my best self, I am of communities that are doing our collective best to honor our ancestors and all human
I am listening now with all of my senses, as if the whole universe might exist just to teach me more about love. I listen to strangers, I listen to ra
The Gap Selling Methodology is a sales technique that shifts the focus of the sale from your product to the buyer’s problem.
Gap Selling teaches you how to be Problem-Centric™. We don’t pitch about our product or service, and we don’t try to find the customer’s “pain point”
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.” ― Anne Bogart
people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.
Everything is a story, and people need to understand themselves as having a meaningful role within the story you, as an organizer, are telling. If the
We are not simply “missing out” on knowledge; we are being robbed of it. To succeed in our movements, we must resist this theft and reclaim what has b
Given the sheer amount of media available to any person with an internet connection, we have no shortage of “witnesses” to atrocity. Forcing people to
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This shared belief would shape collective actions—policies, inventions, movements—that bring those ideals closer to reality. Conversely, shared fears
The restoration of possibility amid despair is an act of destruction paired with a call to imagine—which is a call to arms. The armament of knowing yo
If you look around, you’ll notice the people and organizations moving the fastest are the focused ones. Not only do they focus on a few ideas, but wit
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If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will gov
The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed.
True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It can't be gained by interfering.
The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.
Recent history shows the political danger in threatening low consumer prices. The public's reaction to the inflation of the past few years suggests th
poverty increases by about 8 percent in places where a Walmart opens relative to places without one even when factoring in the most optimistic cost-sa
The question is not whether we can shape the universe but what kind of reality we wish to create. Will we build lives—and a world—defined by fear and
Capitalism robs us of our time, exhausting our bodies and minds, while pollution, stress, and shifting media patterns shorten our attention spans, and
“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong
“People are only mean when they’re threatened,” he said later that day, “and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people w
“Here’s what I mean by building your own little subculture,” Morrie said. “I don’t mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don’t go around
If you are sincerely selfless, you can help others to achieve selflessness as well
None of us still living is in God's grace. We can't lift up our eyes, because they're filled with shame. And shame doesn't help.
What we pay attention to grows
When we are engaged in acts of love, we humans are at our best and most resilient
I was very young the first time I felt this restlessness, this sense that how things are isn’t right, isn’t enough, is empty even. Even as a child thi
mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
I am listening now with all of my senses, as if the whole universe might exist just to teach me more about love. I listen to strangers, I listen to ra
This isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a real problem. When the internet becomes dominated by AI, we lose the human touch that makes it special. Soon,
Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittific
While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the
Besides the infinite social media maelstrom1 and the continuously growing commercialization of the web2, we will soon have to deal with an avalanche o
some of the very people who are developing search algorithms and architecture are willing to promote sexist and racist attitudes openly at work and be
While we often think of terms such as “big data” and “algorithms” as being benign, neutral, or objective, they are anything but. The people who make t
“We need to open up and be transparent around how our algorithms work and how they’re used, and maybe even enable people to choose their own algorithm
The biases of Google and Facebook, whether algorithmic, datainduced, commercial or political dictate what version of the worldwe get to see. Reality b
It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
Ways to get lucky: • Hope luck finds you. • Hustle until you stumble into it. • Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss. • Become the
Stop operating from the assumptions of your past self, and start finding new and unique pathways. Find the people and pathways to get where you’re try
Do your part of the work, or you cannot succeed. Muhammad, one night, while encamping in the desert, overheard one of his fatigued followers remark: “
She gave them everything she had. She even gave them sons. All of them. And took the infants to their fathers to be recognized. But none of them wante
I kept thinking about the fact that humans have an extremely small chance (if we have one at all) to save ourselves from destruction in the next few y
The day you went away I knew I would never see you again. You were stained red by the late afternoon sun, by the dusk filling the sky with blood.
He stopped talking then. He said there wasn't much point in saying things he couldn't hear, things that evaporated in the air, things he couldn't get
Empty carts, churning the silence of the streets. Fading into the dark road of night. And shadows. The echo of shadows.
She gave them everything she had. She even gave them sons. All of them. And took the infants to their fathers to be recognized. But none of them wante