JC Soriano
"After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper." ~ Kings 19:12
https://www.loyolapress.com/retreats/listening-to-whispers-start-retreat/
This is one of my favorite verses. Today's 3-minute retreat reminded me of a maxim I heard from the Jesuits: "God is in our deepest desires" (https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/our-deepest-desires/).
Too often I find myself, in my desire to advance my career, trying to...
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https://www.fastcompany.com/90534296/antitrust-hearing-may-make-regulators-far-more-skeptical-of-future-big-tech-acquisitions
Three thoughts:
1. Honestly it's not super hard to copy / re-create apps.
The more important things Big Tech companies buy in the acquisitions are:
- the user base / network effect
- the management team / employees
- the brand and halo effect the brand has built with its current user base
We see in G+ vs Facebook that copying the tech ...
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What if the Earth is an organism, humans are the Earth's coronavirus, and the coronavirus are the Earth's white blood cells trying to fight its disease and bring back Earth to a healthy state?
Two related thoughts regarding this photo and this article. (Context: sharp decline in CO2 emissions detected amid decreased human activity.)
Second thought: this phenomenon reminds me of Trophic cascade. In the Yellowstone park, the ecosystem's apex predators (wolves) we...
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This post is the third in a series of posts. On the previous post, we reflected on Ikigai, and thought about how finding it and practicing it can lead to a deep and long lasting form of happiness. In the first post we reflected on the three forms of happiness: pleasure, flow, and meaning.
Now, I thought of sharing an intriguing brain hack I learned for positive thinking and resilience: gratitude.
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Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means "reason for being".
Last post I reflected on the findings of Positive Psychology and what it thinks are the different forms of happiness. In that reflection my perception of happiness changed in three stages, akin to Lewin's Model of Change: unfreezing, transition, and refreezing. Through the findings of Positive Psychology on how Pleasure is fleeting, affected by things one cannot control (externalities, genetics), and vulnerable to the He...
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