Home » Posts tagged 'Facebook'
Tag Archives: Facebook
Sheryl Sandberg: Barriers
Sheryl Sandberg at the Moët Hennessy Financial Times Club Dinner, San Francisco. (Per Flickr description: “Photo Credit: Drew Altizer”.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Image via CrunchBase
Let the barriers you face — and there will be barriers — be external, not internal.”
Related articles
Maybe You Should Read the Book: The Sheryl Sandberg Backlash(newyorker.com)
Sheryl Sandberg’s `Lean In’ Circles Can Fix Our Politics(bloomberg.com)
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Announces Formation Of ‘Lean In’ Online Community(allfacebook.com)
Karin Hurt: “But Your Life Looks So Perfect on Facebook”
Facebook logo Español: Logotipo de Facebook Français : Logo de Facebook Tiếng Việt: Logo Facebook (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I just got off the phone with an old friend. She had several important concerns weighing on her heart. We talked about them for a while, and then she shared:
You know I was talking to another friend about this and she said, “but your life looks so perfect on Facebook.”
I took a quick look at her Facebook page. Of course it did. It’s Facebook. Who wants to put their troubles out there for the world to see? All those great pics are absolutely true. Much in her life is fantastic. And, like every single one of us, other parts are messy.
So What’s This Got To Do With Leadership?
Continue reading on Let’s Grow Leaders…
Steve Jobs: Running
Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
Related articles
- Remembering Steve Jobs (digitalsurgeons.com)
- P.E.I. marathon committee bars 10-year-old runner from competing in race (news.nationalpost.com)
- Steve Jobs Steps Down, My Apple Inc. (AAPL) Market Forecast (optionsanimal.com)
- Why Innovative People Fail (forbes.com)
- Why we hate to like Steve Jobs and like to hate Mark Zuckerberg (digitalsurgeons.com)
- Time, Money, Work, Family, Steve Jobs, and Death (phanimahesh.wordpress.com)
- How did a clown end up with Steve Jobs iPad? [Literally] (bazaardaily.com)
- Tips for Your First Marathon (wiserunning.com)
- Thousands cross the line at Edmonton marathon (metronews.ca)
Joe Henderson: Your toughest opponent
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.
Joe Henderson, running coach and author
Related articles
-
TP’s Quote of the Day (takboprintipe.wordpress.com)
English: Obstacle This is one of the obstacles on the toughest mountain bike trail on Whiteash Hill. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Is tech making us stupid?
Nicholas Carr speaking at the VINT Symposium held in Utrecht, Holland on June 17, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The above statements have been pouring in from scientific studies across the world. This is their essential premise: that multitasking between emails, Facebook, Twitter, TV, mobile phones, tablets and gaming consoles have made us perpetually distracted and a scatter-brained race. Not only is the
new era of information technology making us less creative and more muddled – it’s put into place a permanent change in the way our brain maps information, how it retains it, which parts are used how and even the size of the brain is going through a metamorphosis. Very scary, right? Wait, there’s more.
Shallow and fried
The first news of this came when a series of articles and a book was released by Nicholas Carr. His argument was that ever since the advent of the Internet, we as a human race have been becoming more stupid. His book (The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember) made some very compelling points. Taking himself to be the guinea pig, Carr said that over the last few years the way he read and absorbed books was completely changing. He said, “I was losing my own capacity for concentration and contemplation. Even when I was away from my computer, my mind seemed hungry for constant stimulation, for quick hits of information. I felt perpetually distracted.”
Related articles
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (contemplatingtruth.wordpress.com)
- Is the Internet Really Making Me Stupid, Crazy, and Constantly Distracted? [Ask Lifehacker] (lifehacker.com)
- Turning Into Man Machines: Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows” (shorequalblog.com)
- Don’t Delete Your Stupidity. Fix it. Facebook Rolls Out Comment … – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
- The art of tweeting–Jasmine’s Tech Dos & Don’ts (reviews.cnet.com)
- It’s Important To Have Dreams (winextra.com)
- Google isn’t making us stupid, we are (theengagingbrand.typepad.com)
- Don’t blame Twitter when journos tweet stupid things; blame stupidity (stevebuttry.wordpress.com)
It’s a mad, mad world
Image via CrunchBase
I admit I didn’t see it coming. All this while Facebook (FB) users mocked people like me, who are not fond of the social network, for being inherently shy and lonely. But we have kept our opinions about those suffering from FB OCD to ourselves — more out of our belief in the maxim ‘to each his own’ than the fact that a majority of FB fanatics simply do not seem to understand the concept of privacy.
But a German daily, Der Taggespiegel has now taken this battle to another plane. By linking the mental state of the shooters of the two recent attacks in the US to their absence on FB, it has made a, well, insane observation: only psychopaths and mass murderers are not on FB.
Related articles
- Are You a Psychopath if You’re Not on Facebook? Some Employers, Psychiatrists Think So (mashable.com)
- If You Don’t Have A Facebook Account, There’s A Good Chance You’re A Sociopathic Serial Killer (thegloss.com)
- Are People Who Don’t Use Facebook Psychopaths? (fox4kc.com)
- Not on Facebook? You’re probably a psychopath (theweek.co.uk)
- Not joining Facebook a sign you’re a psychopath? (mobot.net)
- Is not joining Facebook a sign you’re a psychopath? Some employers and psychologists say it’s ‘suspicious’ (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)
Sabbatical
Followers of this blog will have noticed that there have been no original posts since the beginning of this year.
The story:
I have taken a sabbatical from writing; the quotes will continue—hard,fast and strong.
Till then!
Related articles
- How To Plan A Sabbatical (essentialtravel.co.uk)
- Why Take A Social Media Sabbatical (likewhy.com)
- Why I Took a Sabbatical… (partnersforthegospel.com)
- Sabbaticals as a Startup Benefit (davidcummings.org)
