Sublime

Yet, his career continued to progress until one day, at the age of 49, he collapsed in his office on the 20th floor, surrounded by glass walls offering a stunning view of the city. A lengthy hospital stay ensued, during which he was forced to completely shut out professional concerns to recover. For the first time since his childhood, he had time f

Okinawans refer to purpose as ikigai

The companies I was looking for all operated on what you might call human scale, that is, a size at which it’s still possible for an individual to be acquainted with everyone else in the organization, still possible for the CEO to meet with new hires, still possible for employees to feel closely connected to the rest of the company.

Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.