Month: January 2017

Engage in protest, but not from a place of anger. You need to express your opinion, and you need to go out there and say this is wrong. But don’t do it by saying hateful things. In a way, we Buddhists look more at energy than personality. That helps us be wiser. A Buddhist monk… Continue reading A Buddhist monk explains mindfulness for times of conflict

And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant on television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope… Continue reading The Hope Speech : Harvey Milk | From Dana’s Guests | DanaRoc.com

But you must remember that in the week before Miami and the week after that, the word homosexual or gay appeared in every single newspaper in this nation in articles both pro and con. In every radio station, in every TV station and every household. For the first time in the history of the world,… Continue reading The Hope Speech : Harvey Milk | From Dana’s Guests | DanaRoc.com

history of early Islam. He hadn’t spoken to anyone in white nationalism since his defection, aside from occasional calls home to his parents. Instead, he’d spent his time catching up on aspects of pop culture he’d once been taught to discredit: liberal newspaper columns, rap music and Hollywood movies. He’d come to admire President Obama.… Continue reading The white flight of Derek Black

He was still living across the country after finishing his master’s degree, and he was starting to learn Arabic to be able to study the The white flight of Derek Black

Another New College student learned about the conference and posted details on the forum, where gradually a new way of thinking had begun to emerge. “Ostracizing Derek won’t accomplish anything,” one student wrote. “We have a chance to be real activists and actually affect one of the leaders of white supremacy in America. This is… Continue reading The white flight of Derek Black

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living – NYTimes.com

Work-life balance was a term not yet coined in the years my children were young; it is aptly descriptive of the time distribution I experienced. My success in law school, I have no doubt, was in large measure because of baby Jane. I attended classes and studied diligently until 4 in the afternoon; the next… Continue reading Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living – NYTimes.com

Project Aristotle is a reminder that when companies try to optimize everything, it’s sometimes easy to forget that success is often built on experiences — like emotional interactions and complicated conversations and discussions of who we want to be and how our teammates make us feel — that can’t really be optimized. What Google Learned… Continue reading What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team – NYTimes.com

But to be fully present at work, to feel ‘‘psychologically safe,’’ we must know that we can be free enough, sometimes, to share the things that scare us without fear of recriminations. We must be able to talk about what is messy or sad, to have hard conversations with colleagues who are driving us crazy.… Continue reading What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team – NYTimes.com