Joseph

Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness — an empathy — was necessary if the attention was to matter. Such openness and empathy M. had in abundance, and gave away freely... I was in my late twenties and early thirties, and well filled with a sense of my own thoughts, my own presence. I was eager to address the worl... See more

“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer,”

from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”

’s key point about EdgeRank is that its “two key ingredients” were manually programmed to reflect the judgments of Facebook’s engineers. That is, the programmers wrote the algorithm in code. In the traditiona

What we lack in innovation is definitely not capital, but a lack of confidence and knowledge of how to organize high-density talent for effective innovation.

The past wasn’t as good as you remember. The present isn’t as bad as you think. The future will be better than you anticipate.

There’s a Russian saying about nostalgia: “The past is more unpredictable than the future.” It’s so common for people’s memories about a time to become disconnected from how they actually felt at the time.

It’s going to be an expert through the proving of data — an expert through action, rather than an expert through appointment.

Gathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.