The Big Chill-Out: How Meditation Can Help With Everything | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

The Big Chill-Out: How Meditation Can Help With Everything | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.

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Airbnb lessons on distruption

Disruption Lessons From Airbnb
The Build Network staff, inc.com

Your future competitors will likely supply what you do—but from cheaper, off-the-radar sources.

There are back­yard busi­ness terms, and there are—how shall we put it?—more ele­vat­ed notions.

Any kid with a lemon­ade stand grasps “sup­ply”…

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10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter

10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter
By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com

Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even the toughest questions.

No two…

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The Slow Medicine Movement

(via The Slow Medicine Movement: My Mother, Your Mother « The Healthcare Marketer)

Things banned by the Bible punishable by death

76 things banned in the Bible, most of which are punishable by death
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

An oldie but good­ie single-purpose Tum­blr list­ing things banned in Leviti­cus, the banny-est of all scrip­tures. The sex stuff you can imag­ine (no bonk­ing ani­mals, dudes if you are a dude, divorcées, your grand­moth­er, or your own chil­dren…

RT @BoingBoing: According to the Bible, trimming your beard, getting tattoos, eating fat, or “mixing fabrics”—all majorly bad. http://flip.it/WZQyA http://flip.it/EL1oD

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bOING-bOING-02 (Photo credit: Frauenfelder)

Real political map of US

This Is the Real Political Map of America—We Are Not That Divided
Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com

This is the real polit­i­cal map of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca after the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. A fas­ci­nat­ing view, much dif­fer­ent from the maps you saw that night, which showed an arti­fi­cial, bina­ry divide. But these maps…

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Data about God and belief

This Week in God
Steve Benen, msnbc.com

First up from the God Machine this week is a look at the 2012 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, and the dif­fer­ences along reli­gious lines. The Pew Forum on Reli­gion & Pub­lic Life pub­lished a report this week based on exit polling data, and I put…

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Is Buddhism the most bio-scientifically accurate religion?

A map of the world, showing the major religion...
A map of the world, showing the major religions distributed in the world as of today. A different type of map which views only the religion as a whole excluding denominations or sects of the religions, and is colored by how the religions are distributed not by main religion of country etc. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Buddhism: The Most Accurate World Religion? – Boston.com.

Adaptive Path: UX consulting

Adaptive Path Sixth Anniversary Party
Adaptive Path Sixth Anniversary Party (Photo credit: Scott Beale)

Adaptive Path.

Why Sufi Muslims could be our most valuable allies in the fight against extremism

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110527-A-UJ825-003 (Photo credit: isafmedia)

Why Sufi Muslims, for centuries the most ferocious soldiers of Islam, could be our most valuable allies in the fight against extremism – The Boston Globe.

Interesting article that shows the value of understanding ethnography and underlying spiritual traditions in the fight against terrorism. We incorrectly classify all muslims as terrorists.