Photo by michelhrv I just read the introduction and first chapter of Why Work Sucks And How To Fix It (free with email opt-in). This book is about how the workplace rewards time spent instead of results achieved. If you’re in your seat from 8-5, you’re a good employee, and if you’re not, you’re not. Your results don’t really matter that much in the current system. Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson advocate a Results-Only Work ...

Bodhidharma brought Zen Buddhism from India to China. He was well known for being fierce and uncompromising. There is a story about how he kept nodding off during meditation, so he cut off his eyelids. When he threw them on the ground, they turned into a tea plant, and then he realized he could simply drink the tea to stay awake! He was uncompromising in that he wanted to know what was true, and he ...

t-shirt at Bonaroo

در انتهای کوچۀ بن‌بست راه آسمان باز است، پرواز را اگر بلد باشی …..

Let's say, for the moment, that the US Treasury, the Fed and their European counterparts have fired a shot across the bow: we will not let our financial institutions go under without a fight. By stepping up with what is essentially an unlimited guarantee of broad swaths of the financial sector, Western governments are hoping that both consumer and inter-bank confidence will be rebuilt such that a complete market melt-down and economic ice age is ...

For English subtitles, choose “Danish” from the “Choose Language…” drop-down. There is a misconception that lifestyle design is just for entrepreneurs or CEOs. In reality, the principles — borrowed from economics and behavioral psychology — can be applied within organizations and groups with even more dramatic effects. Just watch the 25-minute segment above from the Danish equivalent of the BBC (DR1), where lifestyle design is tested by both an employee at insurance giant Codan and ...