Abraham Shafi's Blog

ilovecharts: A chart of life hacks These are indispensable.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:40:36 -0400

ilovecharts:

A chart of life hacks

These are indispensable.

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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:08:18 -0400

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"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful..."

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:18:14 -0400

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”

- Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (via psychotherapy)

Worry Isn't Work

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:21:22 -0400

Worry Isn't Work:

zenhabits:

Worry isn’t work. Being stressed out isn’t work. Anxiety isn’t work. Entertaining a sense of impending doom isn’t work. Incessant internal verbal punishment isn’t work. Indulging the great unknown fear in your own mind isn’t work. Hating yourself isn’t work.

"if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:35:05 -0400

“if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning opportunities will be unlimited.”

- Clayton Christensen

he is an inspiration

How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review

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"Chris works in the Pussycat Lounge, even closer to the site. When the airplanes struck the World..."

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:33:12 -0400

“Chris works in the Pussycat Lounge, even closer to the site. When the airplanes struck the World Trade Center, Chris became a Red Cross volunteer working with survivors. The WSJ writes she “sat on a barstool in a tiny, shiny red dress and defended Park51. ‘They’re not building a mosque in the World Trade Center. It’s all good. You have your synagogues and your churches. And you have a mosque.’” Chris lost eight of her friends on Sept. 11, 2001, firefighters from the Brooklyn firehouse she lived next to at the time, but “the people who did it are not going to the mosque.””

- Ten things I know about the mosque - Roger Ebert’s Journal (via mikehudack)

Sunset+ my rooftop + blue bottle + a good book = the life. Nuff...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:19:23 -0400

Sunset+ my rooftop + blue bottle + a good book = the life. Nuff said

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me..."

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:50:37 -0400

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”

- M. Ghandi via alex bogusky (via kareem)

Robert Reich: The Anatomy of Intolerance

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:02:54 -0400

Robert Reich: The Anatomy of Intolerance:

Connect the dots:

Many Americans (and politicians who the polls) don’t want a mosque at Manhattan’s Ground Zero.

An increasing percent believe the President is a Muslim.

Most Americans approve of Arizona’s new law allowing police to stop anyone who looks Hispanic and demand proof of…

"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept..."

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:50:36 -0400

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.”

- (via youmightfindyourself) (via evangotlib) (via matthendrick)

"Sources with knowledge of this entire situation have assured me that Apple has submitted orders for..."

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:42:24 -0400

“Sources with knowledge of this entire situation have assured me that Apple has submitted orders for millions of units of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets for a Verizon iPhone run due in December. This production run would likely be for a January launch, and I’d bet the phone is nearly 100% consistent with the current iPhone 4 (with a fixed internal insulator on the antenna).”

- Why The Verizon iPhone Rumors are True—CDMA iPhone Due in January (via mikehudack)

"America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable..."

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:30:25 -0400

“America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect. Women who cover their heads in this country must feel comfortable going outside their homes. Moms who wear cover must be not intimidated in America. That’s not the America I know. That’s not the America I value.”

- GEORGE W. BUSH - September 17, 2001 (via aatombomb) (via mikehudack) (via tedr)

"Risk is the price we pay for opportunity"

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:16:28 -0400

“Risk is the price we pay for opportunity”

- Entreprenurial Adage

tmblg: Scientists Take Quantum Steps Toward Teleportation The...

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:10:14 -0400

tmblg:

Scientists Take Quantum Steps Toward Teleportation

The problem with such an act, Kaku says, is that “you have to be destroyed in order to have your body teleported to the other side of the room. So if you’ve been destroyed and teleported, then who is that person there? They have the same memory, the same jokes, the same everything, except the original was destroyed in the process of being teleported.”

So if one was to be teleported, would he or she simply be re-created but not able to tell the difference? Stay tuned to the Joint Quantum Institute website to see if they ask for volunteers.

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tmblg: These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:55:10 -0400

tmblg:

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD as part of a test conducted by the US government in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject was the medic.

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:21:37 -0400

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas Edison -b-e-a-utiful: via picquotes

"The President should stop talking and acting on anything else – not the deficit, not energy, not the..."

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:24:01 -0400

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The President should stop talking and acting on anything else – not the deficit, not energy, not the environment, not immigration, not implementing the health care law, not education. He should make the whole upcoming mid-term election a national referendum on putting Americans back to work, and his jobs bill. Are you for it or against it?

But none of this is happening. The hawks and blue dogs are still commanding the attention. Herbert Hoover’s ghost seems to have captured the nation’s capital. We’re back to 1932 (or 1937) and the prevailing sentiment is government can’t and mustn’t do anything but aim to reduce the deficit, even though the economy is going down.

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- Robert Reich (via marco)

"To embrace the misfit in oneself is to be vulnerable. It is to forsake the easy acceptance that..."

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:40:00 -0400

“To embrace the misfit in oneself is to be vulnerable. It is to forsake the easy acceptance that comes with fitting in and to instead be fortified by a kind of love, really. A love of life, a love of wonder, and, ultimately, a sustaining love for oneself. Far from egoism, that love for oneself is a measure of one’s love for others, for humanity. And it is only from love that great ideas can be born.”

- Dan Pallotta - Misfit Entrepreneurs (Harvard Business Review)

"Startups are hard. When you read the press you only read the glamorous bits. You read about Mark..."

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:45:41 -0400

“Startups are hard. When you read the press you only read the glamorous bits. You read about Mark Zuckerberg or the guys at FourSquare, Twitter or Zynga. But that’s a bit like reading about your state lottery winner and feeling bummed out because you haven’t won despite years of trying.”

- Mark Suster - Life is 10% How You Make It and 90% How you Take It (via davidnoel) (via sebastianwaters)

"people who are mid-career and young enough to want to disrupt things, but old enough and have paid..."

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:55:19 -0400

“people who are mid-career and young enough to want to disrupt things, but old enough and have paid enough dues that it somehow feels unfair when the industry is ripped out from under their feet. To me, this three-hour out-pouring of enthusiasm for the future mixed with nostalgia of the past was like any conversation I used to have when I still worked in old media newsrooms.”

- Conan O’Brien’s Love/Hate Relationship with the Internet (via interestingsnippets)