While talking to Polle de Maagt today, one sentence sprang up: “If you know who you are it is easy to adapt, because you know your boundaries and so the environment provides no threat.”
When you are lost in identity, you try to hang on to whatever you have and whatever is foreign is a threat. [...]

Not sure when this movie will come out over here in Europe, but the trailer alone inspires to follow your dream.
via NAU: the thought kitchen

My friend, Leka, posted this picture on a forum a few days ago. It depicts the Arati ceremony which plays a big role in Hindu ritual service. He took it in the Radha Gopinatha temple in Vrindavan, India when we visited there earlier this year. It reminded me of my 5 months in a Hindu [...]

While reading Rebecca’s blog, Modite, last week, I found her say this:
“I studied design in college and found that given the chance to design anything at all in the whole wide world, the canvas will remain blank. Told to design something with a right angle, or without connecting any lines, or including three circles and [...]

“A line in a William Blake poem inspired me to think differently about my day: ‘Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night.’ This has made a huge difference in my life. Now, I take out a yellow pad every morning and write my thoughts for the [...]

While watching John Doerr’s powerful talk, I had to think of the debate of the Walmarts and the big corporates to go green. Many green fanatics branded them as trend followers. The critics basically said it was uncool to go green for the wrong reasons. I think this is just debate for debate’s sake. Why? [...]

It dawned on me the last few days how important “focus” is. If we really want to accomplish something we got to be focused on it. While rereading this last line, its simplicity almost appears not worthy of mentioning. Many have repeated this sentence, but how many have realized what it means?
I’ve been thinking about [...]

Real progress hurts. It’s that simple. It’s a hurdle we have to take. By changing our environment we oftentimes escape taking the hurdle. Stay where you are and make that change, go through that development. We should push like athletes and feel a pinch of pain. Not too much, not too little. Like a friend [...]

I’m a great fan of Inhabitat and won’t be reposting their blogs of course, but I couldn’t help but point you towards this prefab, MCube by Mdesigns. I love the American meets Japanse design. It’s solar powered by the way.

Read Inhabitat’s article here with more pictures.

If you like what I said about networking, you’ll probably like Keith Ferrazzi’s book, Never Eat Alone. In this article, “The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker” in Inc magazine, you’ll get a glimpse of how he views networking. Or watch his presentation at the Microsoft Small Busines Summit, “Skills & Techniques for Building & [...]