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by pcpcpc 8y ago
Ask and you shall receive: "Followers of voudon also believe in a universal energy" https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/o... "Many Neopagans worship Gaia... Gaia was the great moth
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
For anyone else reading this comment and curious about Buddhism and Panpsychism, here are some links. Buddhism suggests that the perception of the boundary of the self (I am a distinct, separate being) is a delusion/wrong view. Perhaps
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
He's also a good marketer. I have a mostly unsubstantiated theory that Buffet's celebrity 1) allows him to negotiate better deals than other investors and 2) moves the market after he's invested. Re: 2) if Warren buys somethi
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
I just finished The Toyota Way and am getting started on The Goal. I'm very curious about the Taichi Ohno book. Do you have a link or a title?
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
Anecdotal evidence, but service was getting worse and worse with google fi (in San Francisco) over the past few months and I just switched to another carrier a few weeks ago. Calls were regularly dropping and data would cut in and out. (I s
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
I'd also ask questions to get a sense of the "soft skills" of the founders or whoever will be managing you. It's a truism, but "people quit managers, not companies." There are tons of resources online for quest
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Lif...
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
I've been reading a book on nonviolent communication[1]. It's been helping me rethink how I approach work conversations and communicate what I want. Putting it into practice has been tough, but early results have been good. I&#x27
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
Yoga can be a form of meditation, and if it's working well for you that's fantastic! The groups that I go to and the retreat that I did are in the Buddhist (Theravada/Thai Forest and Zen) tradition (with some other traditions
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
There are many good ones on YouTube, but here are two to get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Z4t9ZiUzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15q-N-_kkrU
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
For those who are interested and new to meditation, I started meditating several years ago with Headspace and YouTube videos of Jonathan Kabat Zinn and others. It's a great place to start. I later went on a silent meditation retreat an
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
Check out my response to your sibling comment.
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
I chased the opportunities in finance for the money and the prestige. Once I got there, I realized that those things were less important to me than meaning in my work, work-life balance, relationships outside of work, etc. They were still i
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
It's anecdotal, but I've noticed this a lot in the years since I've graduated from a "top-ranked" school. I worked on Wall Street after graduating from school and burned out very quickly. I had a very high estimatio
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
I'm in a similar position to Steve Blank: early employee navigating various role transitions as the company grows. Would appreciate additional resources like the above, recommended coaches, books, etc. if anyone can offer.
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
Maybe the emphasis is too much on the suicides. It seems like the concern is not just about the suicide rate, but the general working conditions and lack of freedom in China, in Shenzhen, and at Foxconn. Here's a pro-labor take on the
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
Derk Pereboom posits that there is no free will but that fact is not inconsistent with moral responsibility. http://derk-pereboom.net/views/
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
If legislation required (certain/any) publicly funded projects to use open source software, whose code would be made freely and publicly available, then open source would see a much greater market share and level of investment and we&#
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WikiTribune: What we have learned so far(wikitribune.com)
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In Liberal San Francisco, Tech Leaders Brawl Over Tax Proposal to Aid Homeless(nytimes.com)
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
Using Firefox and DDG daily for personal use. I'm looking to switch off of inbox/gmail, google calendar, etc. but haven't settled on an alternative yet. I've made heavy use of the snoozed notifications in inbox. Any reco
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
I've been using GMail/Google Inbox for awhile and thinking about switching. Now that Google's announced they'll be shutting down Inbox next year, I want to finally make the switch. It seems like there's some consens
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by pcpcpc 8y ago
full quote: "I had a pretty serious Christian upbringing. I remember growing up I was taught to be small, be a turtle,” he says. “I remember thinking, Why would I go around the company and just chat with people? Like that would be so a