Stilgherrian’s great post on calling Jason Calacanis a “prick” is a fun and worthwhile read on many fronts.

It is also a great real example of authenticity.

Jason Calacanis made some comments on a blog post which he later edited after receiving loads of negative responses.

Fire people who are not workaholics. don’t love their work… come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a game. don’t work …

These are my highlights from Dacher Keltner’s article The Power Paradox which takes a more humane and positive look at the idea of power, contrary to the Machiavellian views of Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power.

[The belief] that attaining power requires force, deception, manipulation, and coercion … [is] dead wrong.

Instead, a new science of power has revealed that power is wielded most effectively when it’s …

Guy Kawasaki’s post Power 3.0: Kinder, Gentler, and Better discusses the idea of “power” in business.

Conventional business practice tends to promote the idea that power = aggression, founded on the myth that everyone is out to get you, that the fittest win. This is the sort of power that is based on fear - fear of punishment and deprivation. This sort of “power” leads to sociopathy.

Guy …

My friend Christina Jayne Duncan said in an email:

“The heart core of the issue is the only way!”

“Heart core” immediately made me think of “hard core” (mind out of the gutter please, just for the duration of this post).

So much of the conventional business world is about the hard core stuff - we are business MEN and must therefore must only make hard core MANLY “rational” decisions; we …

Imagination is more important than knowledge. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. You cannot do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its …

This fun little ad epitomises “play” to me. It is that sense of continual wonderment at the world, of newness, of conscious engagement with the smallest of things, and the simplest of the stuff that surrounds us. It is being awake to the moment.

You want to be more innovative, more creative? Try and live like this everyday. …

Last week, I was at a concert put on by a number of community choirs for charity. Great music, great performances, and for a good cause.

As we left the concert, we were talking about how wonderful it was to spend an afternoon with people who were truly passionate about and committed to what they do. There is this awesome energy of creation, of togetherness, of being that is …

I had a nice day today – mostly spent lying in bed, reading (a novel), and dozing off in between chapters. Only slightly thinking about work… It’s the whole “we must have this done by Christmas” workload . Not that I am complaining!

In the afternoon, I got up and started a new painting. It has been a while. The canvases were piling up accusatively.

After …

I have been thinking and talking to friends and associates a bit recently about the in-between.

We are very good at compartmentalisation in our world today. Most things/concepts/services/people lie in their very own special boxes. Our job descriptions pigeonhole us neatly into what we do (and not a thing more).

There exists huge opportunities for those who can thrive in the in-between. The classic role is the …

How many times do you really face a choice in life? …

Make them count. They will define you. …

every time I am about to follow my heart, I am offered enormous temptation. …

I’ve found that a lot of people have the same stigma about the question of what to do with their life, the geography of their career. They fear it’s not a serious question, because it’s mostly …