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Seth Godin in Tribes:

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.

As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then c…

Another quote from Seth Godin’s Tribes, where he talks about Meghan McDonald (who seems to be from his own home town of New Rochelle):

She doesn’t lead the way other people lead. And that’s fine, be…

Seth Godin in Tribes:

Dr. Laurence Peter is famous for proposing that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” In other words, when you do a great job, you get pro…

“Be the change you want to see in the world” is a famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi.

Ouch.

It’s so much easier to run around telling others how they should be, how they ought to change, in order to make th…

Facebook billionaire Peter Thiel’s take on education as the next bubble:

He draws the following comparisons between the real estate bubble and higher education:

1, A consumption decision masque…

From today’s Gapingvoid newsletter (it’s good, sign up for it):

You can’t achieve your destiny until you’ve accepted responsibility for it. I’m as guilty as anyone…

Often I’ll be grumpy about…

J. K. Rowling in her brief biography on how Harry Potter fell into her head:

After leaving university I worked in London; my longest job was with Amnesty International, the organisation that campaig…

Interesting finding over at PsyBlog:

Surprisingly, it was those highest in trusting others that emerged as the superstar lie detectors. High trusters were more sensitive to deceit and more accurate …

Joseph Jaworski, founder of American Leadership Forum, in Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership:

But another notion of freedom was beginning to make its way into my consciousness at this time,…

Marc Lesser in Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less:

One of my teachers was Harry Roberts, a Yurok Indian-trained shaman, naturalist, cowboy, and Irish curmudgeon, and one day he asked me, “Do you…