Sunday, December 23, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
"The improvement of the world must be highly contexualized. It's not relevant to have it only at the regional level. It must be more detailed."
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Ernesto Sirolli talks about sustainable economic development and the importance of listening to entrepreneurs.
"The first principle of aid is respect"
"I decided when I was 27 years old to only respond to people. And i invented a system called enterpreise faciliataion where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local passion, the servant of the local people who have a dream to become a better person."
"The most important thing is passion. You can give somebody an idea - but if that person doesn't want to do it, what are you going to do? The passion that a person has for her own growth is the most important thing. And then we help them to go and find the knowledge. Because nobody in the world can succeed alone."
"Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death for entrepreneurship."
"There's only one thing that all the richest companies in the world have in common: None of them were started by just one person.......Nobody started a company alone. No-one."
"The first principle of aid is respect"
"I decided when I was 27 years old to only respond to people. And i invented a system called enterpreise faciliataion where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local passion, the servant of the local people who have a dream to become a better person."
"The most important thing is passion. You can give somebody an idea - but if that person doesn't want to do it, what are you going to do? The passion that a person has for her own growth is the most important thing. And then we help them to go and find the knowledge. Because nobody in the world can succeed alone."
"Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death for entrepreneurship."
"There's only one thing that all the richest companies in the world have in common: None of them were started by just one person.......Nobody started a company alone. No-one."
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
History, the rise and fall of civilizations, perspective and forward thinking
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/opinion/sunday/is-this-the-end.html?pagewan...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Study: Free birth control leads to fewer abortions.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/study-free-birth-control-leads-fewer-abortions
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
The keys to simplifying your decision making process....
Cut
Concretization
Categorization
Condition for Complexity
Friday, October 19, 2012
http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/22/121022fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=1...
"Inside the system today, if you don’t take bribes you have to get out. There’s no way you can stay. If three of us are in one department, and you are the only one who doesn’t take a bribe, are the two of us ever going to feel safe?”
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment, or failure; these things just fade away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die, is the best I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You all already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
-Steve Jobs
"if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original"
Ken Robinson contends that creativity is just as important as literacy and should be treated that way in our educational systems.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Barry Schwartz says the abundance of choice (which springs from some faulty (perhaps) underlying unquestioned American values - i.e. personal freedom and it's relation to happiness) is actually causing paralysis and great dissatisfaction
Malcom Gladwell says:
1. In embracing the diversity of humanity, we will find the way to true happiness.
2. Rather than looking for universals of human happiness, it might be better to look towards clusters of similarity.
3. People don't know what they want (what they say is very often quite different from what they actually want deep inside).
"All of science through the 19th century and much of the twentieth was obsessed with universals. Psychologists, Medical Scientists, Economists were all interested in finding out the rules that govern the way all of us behave. But that changed. What is the great revolution in science over the last ten, fifteen years? It is the movement from the search for universals, to the understanding of variability."
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