BeInternational Concerning Cake, Bilbo Baggins, and Charity So a couple days ago I did an AMA on Reddit. It was fun. I enjoy goofing off, interacting with my readers, and answering questions. The day after the AMA, I went back in to see if I’d missed any particularly important/interesting/clever questions. And I found one. I started to answer it. So rather than post my answer there, buried deep in a thread at the bottom of a dead AMA. This is going to sound pretty awful, but why all the charity work? I’ve always been… well, financially challenged (at young Kvothe-like levels at times), and from what I’ve read, you were in a similar state for a long time. Well, it kind of bugs me. This sounds intensely selfish, I know, but it comes from ignorance, not malice. Thanks for being honest here Jason. The simple truth is, Jason, at this point in my life, I have enough money to live comfortably. It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. (No lie.)
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Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Místo věčného hledání se raději dívej | Život v přítomnosti Proč, pokud chceme poznat sami sebe, neustále hledáme? Víme, že hledané je hledající sám. Tak kam se to pořád díváme? Pokud se považuješ za "hledajícího", budeš hledat celý svůj život, protože "hledající" věčně něco hledá. Namísto toho "poznej sebe" jako "pozorujícího" – nehledej „něco“, ale dívej se „na“ to, co se nikdy neztratilo. Z této perspektivy se všechno otočí o 360 stupňů - okamžitě! HLEDAJÍCÍ: pořád hledá dalšího učitele, další knihu, video, audio, satsang, cvičení, nebo nějaký „klub nedvojnosti“, kde by možná mohl uslyšet ten správný výrok nebo větu, která všechno změní a náhle přinese osvobození. Může to být veselé, relaxující, nebo tě to na chvíli zbaví sama sebe. DÍVAJÍCÍ: dívá se na to, čím již je. Co je míněno díváním se „na“? Takže nyní jsi „dívající“ – díváš se „na“. Zvaž tedy tento návrh: skonči s hledáním a začni s díváním se dovnitř. Živoucnost je tím, čím jsi. Témata tohoto článku: hledání Tisk
100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.
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