The Best Reason to Say “No”
In 2.5 pages in The Practice, Seth Godin explains how to strike a balance between saying “yes” and “no” to focus on the change we seek to make, the generous work of making our own contribution.
But beware. […]
Quotes — “poking and prying with a purpose”
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” —Zora Neale Hurston, American writer and anthropologist
Find the right thing to obsess about
Thank you, Seth Godin, for this wonderful snippet of an article, Very good at a simple game.
The key to playing this simple game is figuring out the how and then committing to doing it again and again. […]
What makes a word “real”?
This TED Talk will improve our understanding of the way language works and our view of dictionaries. I have thoroughly enjoyed it and it’s a good 17 minutes spent.
Language change, according to language historian and English professor Anne Curzan (emphasis mine): "The language is not going to change so fast that we can’t keep up; language just doesn’t work that way. […]
What Should Exist?
I’ve been ‘marinating’ overnight on this question from James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter. “What should exist?” is a question from Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft.
Clear’s newsletter this week focuses on resilience, growth, and new opportunities. I find it most timely as I’ve been revisiting visualization—not in the data visualization sort of way—but more in the way of using one’s imagination to create the life one wants.
Actually, as I write this, I realize we are generating data as long as there is still breath in us, so can we visualize the ‘data’ we are creating in the best possible way? […]
Svenska för invandrare (sfi) - kurs C
Fantastic news! I’ve been bumped up the level to Course C (skipping B)!
I’m currently enrolled in the Introduction class and had formally started my Swedish for Immigrant (SFI) program on Monday, 25 October. Starting Monday, 6 December, I will join the existing Course C group, which is at a higher level of proficiency.
Good Sentences
I never thought I would find beautiful, good sentences in a business book such as Measure What Matters by John Doerr but found them I did. […]
Quotes — “information acquired are grasped in their relations to one another”
“But information is AN UNDIGESTED BURDEN unless it is understood. It is knowledge only as its material is comprehended. And understanding, comprehension, means that the various parts of the information acquired are grasped in their relations to one another — a result that is attained only when acquisition is accompanied by CONSTANT REFLECTION upon the meaning of what is studied.” —John Dewey, author of “How We Think” (1933)