My Holy Book

TED:

Genius isn’t who we are but a power that comes to visit, not always to stay…

Advice for women leaders:

1) Sit at the table — don’t underestimate yourself. advocate for yourself.

2) Make your partner a real parter — you and your partner should shoulder equal parts of responsibilities in the home. (couples that divide housework more equally and have similar incomes also have more sex…)

3) Don’t leave before you leave — even if you think you want to have children and a family someday, don’t “quietly lean back.” Push forward until the minute you’re actually going to step away.

So much truth.

“Tell your story of who you are with your whole heart.”

“You cannot selectively numb. When we numb those [bad feelings] we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.”

“Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen.”

“Practice gratitude, lean into joy.”

Cameron Herold on Entrepreneurism »

Inspiring in some ways, but also troubling… I love the ultimate argument: foster entrepreneurship, creativity, the urge to build and make; but it bothers me that after an initial (perfunctory) nod to “solving problems in the world” and a quick reference to creating jobs, the lion’s share of the rest of the talk is about finding ways to make money and explaining why it sucks to be an employee. Maybe it sucks to be his employee if he’s constantly finding ways to trim the bottom line by taking advantage of labor in pursuit of a bigger bottom line, rather than looking to some other standards of fairness..

Wade Davis on the Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual.

Lakshmi Pratury: The lost art of letter-writing

I believe she’s right about the power of the personal touch. Notebooks, scrapbooks, actual photos — with everything in the *cloud* these days, it’s comforting to know that some physical things will remain, at least for awhile, for those who love us.

There’s something also about the thoughtfulness of a letter — unlike an email (all business!), a letter seems to allow for, or even encourage, beauty, poetry, romance, philosophizing, in a way that online communication may not (yet?) match.