It’s been a good summer for spending half hours standing on a beach with no shoes. Back in July, while I was in San Diego for an annual conference, I managed to stop by the Pacific the day before I left. I hadn’t planned out the beach trip at all and was wildly overdressed. But […]
Called to life
“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” —1 Corinthians 15:22 This verse, part of an extended argument from the writings of Paul, became a triumphant chorus in the hands of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. In my favorite version of his Messiah, which I mentioned two weeks […]
Ending Well
Life is as much endings as it is beginnings and maintenance. But I never got taught how to close things down, and entrepreneurs don’t easily tell the stories of the business ideas that failed or the companies that folded. We talk about startups, not shutdowns. We teach whole courses about how to get new jobs, […]
Reader Review 9
Long and short reads for your next weekend. Fall 2014 edition. On Work that Works for Us Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity (AlterNet) “Research by the US military has shown that losing just one hour of sleep per night for a week will cause a level of […]
QOTW: Living Beautifully
“Keep doing whatever it is that you do to help the world be a more beautiful place to be. Try to stay in the moment. Learn how to give yourself compassion and then learn how to have compassion for others. If we all did these things—imagine!” —V. Kingsley
