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Ask and you shall receive: "Followers of voudon also believe in a universal energy" https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/o... "Many Neopagans worship Gaia... …

For anyone else reading this comment and curious about Buddhism and Panpsychism, here are some links. Buddhism suggests that the perception of the boundary of the self (I am a dist…

He's also a good marketer. I have a mostly unsubstantiated theory that Buffet's celebrity 1) allows him to negotiate better deals than other investors and 2) moves the market after…

I just finished The Toyota Way and am getting started on The Goal. I'm very curious about the Taichi Ohno book. Do you have a link or a title?

Anecdotal evidence, but service was getting worse and worse with google fi (in San Francisco) over the past few months and I just switched to another carrier a few weeks ago. Calls…

I'd also ask questions to get a sense of the "soft skills" of the founders or whoever will be managing you. It's a truism, but "people quit managers, not companies." There are tons…

https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Lif...

I've been reading a book on nonviolent communication[1]. It's been helping me rethink how I approach work conversations and communicate what I want. Putting it into practice has be…

Yoga can be a form of meditation, and if it's working well for you that's fantastic! The groups that I go to and the retreat that I did are in the Buddhist (Theravada/Thai Forest a…

There are many good ones on YouTube, but here are two to get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Z4t9ZiUzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15q-N-_kkrU

For those who are interested and new to meditation, I started meditating several years ago with Headspace and YouTube videos of Jonathan Kabat Zinn and others. It's a great place t…

Check out my response to your sibling comment.

I chased the opportunities in finance for the money and the prestige. Once I got there, I realized that those things were less important to me than meaning in my work, work-life ba…

It's anecdotal, but I've noticed this a lot in the years since I've graduated from a "top-ranked" school. I worked on Wall Street after graduating from school and burned out very q…

I'm in a similar position to Steve Blank: early employee navigating various role transitions as the company grows. Would appreciate additional resources like the above, recommended…

Maybe the emphasis is too much on the suicides. It seems like the concern is not just about the suicide rate, but the general working conditions and lack of freedom in China, in Sh…

Derk Pereboom posits that there is no free will but that fact is not inconsistent with moral responsibility. http://derk-pereboom.net/views/

If legislation required (certain/any) publicly funded projects to use open source software, whose code would be made freely and publicly available, then open source would see a muc…

Using Firefox and DDG daily for personal use. I'm looking to switch off of inbox/gmail, google calendar, etc. but haven't settled on an alternative yet. I've made heavy use of the …

I've been using GMail/Google Inbox for awhile and thinking about switching. Now that Google's announced they'll be shutting down Inbox next year, I want to finally make the switch.…

full quote: "I had a pretty serious Christian upbringing. I remember growing up I was taught to be small, be a turtle,” he says. “I remember thinking, Why would I go around the com…