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Awesome mission from SEOmoz
Love the mission page on SEOmoz:
Generous
Gut check:
Am I being as helpful as I can? Am I giving back to the community?
Really nice way to present them, too, with gut checks for each one.
Forrester CEO on Davos
Here’s a few highlights from Forrester CEO George Coloney’s Davos round-up:
6) Desmond Tutu is one of the great men of the world. My favorite quote: ” If we are hollow morally, our world will collap…
Lars Pind is now Calvin Conaway
Just changed my name to Calvin Conaway.
Why?
Long story. You'll find it here.
TL;DR: Because I could :)
Cheers -Calvin
Why do we want to start a business?
If we’re going to do anything, let alone start a business, something that’s so demanding and difficult, almost as hard as being in a relationship or having kids, we might want to start by asking ourse…
The man who quit money
Money is not real. It’s something we invented. It’s juts paper, pieces of metal, and numbers in a computer, that we have endowed with power and meaning.
Richard Feynman: Doubt
Richard Feynman in “The pleasure of finding things out”:
I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which mig…
How and why I changed my name
On Friday, I got a letter from the authorities in Denmark that my name is no longer Lars Holger Pind, it is now Calvin Jeremia Conaway.
That naturally begs the question: Why did you change your name? …
Critical thinking, followed by action.
The Dalai Lama, quoted in I Am, the movie:
Question for the Dalai Lama: “What’s the most important meditation we can do now?”
Answer: “Critical thinking, followed by action. Discern what your world i…
Sobriety in the white house
Timothy Egan for the New York Times:
Sobriety, laudable in many respects, does imply rigidity of thought. The best presidents were open-minded, and generally open to a drink. The nondrinkers, at leas…
Creating waves
Jonathan Mead on Illuminated Mind:
Don’t try to be the next Steve Jobs or the next Maynard Keenan. Be the next you. Explore the uncharted stretches of your own path — the one that’s waiting to be rel…