Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
We have seen that the amount of time a father spends with a child is “one of the strongest predictors of empathy in adulthood.”6 Teaching a child to treat boundaries seriously teaches him or her to respect the needs of others.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Writer and artist Austin Kleon uses two desks: an “analog” desk for generating ideas by hand, and a “digital” desk for refining work on a computer. This spatial boundary is more than a productivity hack; it’s a physical manifestation of conscious choice regarding when and how technology serves his creative process.
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
Ultimately you'll have to determine the info-diet that works for you. But if you insist on endlessly consuming whatever the web serves you, know that this banquet culminates in a bitter dessert: at the end of your life, when you're weighing your regrets, you probably won’t say “Man, I wish I’d spent more time browsing the web.” On the contrary,... See more
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
Once the heart area has been liberated, attention continues to move downward into the area of the belly, or the hara. The term hara is mostly used in Japanese martial arts such as aikido and meditative traditions such as Zen. It refers to a vital energy center that resides below the navel in the lower belly. While the hara appears to be distinct
... See moreJohn J. Prendergast • In Touch
path to awakening (mind->heart->belly) the final step, the hara
Men find meaning in one role — provider.
Carlyn Beccia • A Researcher Studied the Most Common Last Words of Suicidal Men
Imagine trying to shoehorn the elevator mirror solution into a Linear project. The software would prompt you to move through a neatly organized set of issues: “Research elevator speeds,” “Calculate upgrade costs,” “Implement faster motors.” There’s no task for “Stare at the wall and ponder human psychology,” but sometimes that’s exactly what we... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to... See more
Today’s knowledge workers carry a growing sense of anxiety. We have more tools than ever, but these options rarely match how we actually create. Rather than build more technology that keeps us on a miserable hamster wheel of churning out more shallow content, we have a unique opportunity to design tools that encourage us to slow down and create... See more