“Interestingly, and usefully, it turns out that what we do with our money plays a far more important role than how much money we make.”
—Don’t Indulge. Be Happy. (via poptech)
July 2012
2 posts
June 2012
2 posts
“You should know better by now. The story of who you are is never about you. I’m starting from the beginning.”
—Rabih Alameddine (via kepete)
May 2012
2 posts
When Obama endorsed marriage equality...
A new tumblr was born.
… my office was all:
March 2012
11 posts
#LatinoSXSW: Calle 13 and other 'revolucionarios' honored for social media activism
The vocabulary learning mobile app “Vocabador” is one of the winners of the Revolucionario Awards to be given on March 12 at SXSWi. (Facebook.com/Vocabador)By NURIA NET and CONZ PRETI
Channel: MediaAre you ready for SXSW interactive in Austin?
With the the biggest meeting of entrepreneurs and digital media innovators in the world just around the corner, we wanted to share some big announcements regarding the Revolucionario Awards at the Social Revolución event — an event that Univision News is proud to be a part of.
“If failing is not an option, you’ve ruled out success as well.”
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- Acumen Fund: 10 Years Infographic by @Hyperakt.
Our mission is to create a world beyond poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas.
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
” —Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson via It’s Okay to be Smart. (via explore-blog)
Photo credit: Eastbaypen.org
TechCruch: "The Curated Web Will Run On Habits."
Nir Eyal writes:
Increasingly, companies will become experts at designing user habits. Curated Web companies already rely on these methods. This new breed of company, defined by the ability to help users find only the content they care about, includes such white-hot companies as Pinterest and Tumblr. These companies have habit formation embedded in their DNA. This is because data collection is at the heart of any Curated Web business and to succeed, they must predict what users will think is most personally relevant.
Curated Web companies can only improve if users tell their systems what they want to see more of. If users use the service sparingly, it is less valuable than if they use it habitually. The more the user engages with a Curated Web company, the more data the company has to tailor and improve the user’s experience. This self-improving feedback loop has the potential to be more useful – and more addictive — than anything we’ve seen before.
Something to think about when you’re not obsessively updating Tumblr and Pinterest.
February 2012
17 posts
“The book is fundamentally making a promise; this story will lead somewhere worth time. A well told promise is like a pebble being pulled back in a slingshot that propels you through the story to the end.”
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From the TED Blog:
Andrew Stanton is the writer behind the three hugely successful Pixar Toy Story movies as well as the writer and director of WALL-E
"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."
Our true enemies, the enemies within, are our delusions.
“Companies that don’t respect our information and where it comes from are not respecting us, and I think moving into this new world, we have to have a situation where human beings define their own ability to be themselves.”
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On Fresh Air, UPenn communications professor Joseph Turow explains how companies are defining your worth online. (via nprfreshair)
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Bonus rant: Digital privacy and what is happening to “our” data is something fundamental that we as a society are not paying a shred of the merited attention to — perhaps because we have such limited understanding of what the stakes are.
“We think in pictures. We remember in stories.”
— Cindy Krum, The Storytelling Problem
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California.”
—Excerpt from today’s Ninth Circuit ruling. (h/t Carol M.)
Court declares Calif. gay marriage ban unconstitutional
The battle over gay marriage in California could reach the Supreme Court. (Flickr: Damian Hopper)By JORDAN FABIAN
Channel: PoliticsA federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that California’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional.
January 2012
18 posts
Al Chisom: A survivor and an Inspiration about to be deported. →
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Children are sometimes the most vulnerable people in the world— innocent and unaware of our corrupt governments and social norms. As a child, Al Chisom was brought to the US from Nigeria shortly after his father was murdered. Al Chisom was 5 years old at the…
Sign the petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/ice-dreamer-al-okere-will-be-killed-if-deported-to-nigeria
“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh
“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
—- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle”
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Martin Luther King Jr.
(via @joseiswriting)
Ask and you shall receive? If you're a dude. →
thinkprogress.org
More tidbits:
Women who initiated such conversations and changed jobs post MBA experienced slower compensation growth than the women who stayed put. For men, on the other hand, it paid off to change jobs and negotiate for higher salaries—they earned more than men who stayed did. And we saw that as both men’s and women’s careers progress, the gender gap in level and pay gets even wider.
Ladies, looks like we’ve got our work cut out for us.
