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My older brother has been a Buddhist student for the last few years. He randomly creates conversations with me to tell me of his recent learning, such as the one below. We both have engineering degrees so it helps to speak in math terms sometimes with each other: Infinity is the division of anything by zero. [...] A Century Turns New Hopes, New Fears by William J. Bennett provides a good summary of America between 1988 and 2008. Bennett offers it from a political point of view, as expected because Bennet is first and foremost involved in politics, not as a politician, but as a political educator and advisor. He served under [...] There will come a point in everyone’s life when no amount of money, success, or fame can protect you when you are stricken by the human epidemic for a need to answer to no one but yourself, to the question of: what is the meaning of life? Not in a philosophical way, but in a [...] David Siteman Garland at The Rise to the Top recently interview Seth Godin about entrepreneurship, building communities, and what it means to do meaningful work. I sat unmoved after the interview completed and the sound still – I was blown away by the short but loaded insight pact in by Seth Godin.
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Sandy at Chase Bank is my new hero. She made a difference. She’s a linchpin. On a Saturday afternoon I visited a Chase branch to do some typical banking, one of which was to get a service fee waived on a dormant inactive business checking account. Maggie, my bank manager whom I have been doing [...] My name is Thanh and I’m a recovering…feminist. Feminism is an old word. The concept is no stranger to us. Every one of us has been influenced whether indirectly or directly by this movement that started in the mid 1800’s. When Hilary Clinton ran for the presidency in this last election, she broke 18 millions [...] I had to call a plumber out to snake a clog from the kitchen. He quoted me $55, good price (a home warranty would have charged me the same), but when he came, he "added on" $10 for another action of opening the pipes underneath the sink. I could have argued with him or [...] I recently read Lori Gottlieb’s Marry Him and laughed a lot throughout the book but specifically remembered that statement: “Feminism fucked up my love life.” It’s funny because it’s so true. It’s like saying, thanks for the power and equality, but feminism really messed up my head. Feminism gave women the go-card to be, do, [...] I attended a Toastmasters meeting last week. It was another great meeting with people wanting to improve their communications skills and the company is always full of welcoming and supportive members. The speeches usually vary in peaking my interest but I found myself thinking about a speech that was given at this Toastmasters meeting. He [...] |
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