Unconditional Love
“Even after all this time, the Sun never says to the Earth ‘You owe me’.
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.”
Hafiz of Shiraz
Deconstructing The Lean Startup
This is the first in a series of posts that look at Lean Startup methodology, providing insights on how to apply its techniques, in addition to describing common mistakes made when following it.
“I know that I don’t know”
So what’s serious mode?
Played 46 times
David Lynch & lykke li // i’m waiting here
Je déclare l’état de bonheur permanent
Et le droit de chacun à tous les privilèges.
Je dis que la souffrance est chose sacrilège
Quand il y a pour tous des roses et du pain blanc.
Je conteste la légitimité des guerres,
La justice qui tue et la mort qui punit,
Les consciences qui dorment au fond de leur lit,
La civilisation au bras des mercenaires.
Je regarde mourir ce siècle vieillissant.
Un monde différent renaîtra de ses cendres
Mais il ne suffit plus simplement de l’attendre :
Je l’ai trop attendu. Je le veux à présent.
Que ma femme soit belle à chaque heure du jour
Sans avoir à se dissimuler sous le fard
Et qu’il ne soit plus dit de remettre à plus tard
L’envie que j’ai d’elle et de lui faire l’amour.
Que nos fils soient des hommes, non pas des adultes
Et qu’ils soient ce que nous voulions être jadis.
Que nous soyons frères camarades et complices
Au lieu d’être deux générations qui s’insultent.
Que nos pères puissent enfin s’émanciper
Et qu’ils prennent le temps de caresser leur femme
Après toute une vie de sueur et de larmes
Et des entre-deux-guerres qui n’étaient pas la paix.
Je déclare l’état de bonheur permanent
Sans que ce soit des mots avec de la musique,
Sans attendre que viennent les temps messianiques,
Sans que ce soit voté dans aucun parlement.
Je dis que, désormais, nous serons responsables.
Nous ne rendrons de compte à personne et à rien
Et nous transformerons le hasard en destin,
Seuls à bord et sans maître et sans dieu et sans diable.
Et si tu veux venir, passe la passerelle.
Il y a de la place pour tous et pour chacun
Mais il nous reste à faire encore du chemin
Pour aller voir briller une étoile nouvelle.
Je déclare l’état de bonheur permanent.
#love #laughter #music
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
Yann Martel.
Sing for Hope
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Dream, beyond dreams
Beyond life you will find your song
Before sound, to be found close your eyes
Then rise, higher still, endless thrill
To the land of love beyond love
Come alive and you’ll find
Forever watching you arrive
You are the night, you are the ocean
You are the light behind the cloud
You are the end and the beginning
A world where time is not allowed
There’s no such thing as competition
To find a way we lose control
Remember, love’s a holy mission…
This is the journey of the soul
The perfect song is framed with silence
It speaks of places never seen
Your home’s a promise long forgotten
It is the birthplace of your dreams
Beyond. Daft Punk.
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We’re just like other people
We love to sing
We love to dance
We admire beautiful women
We’re human
And sometimes very human
[sample: To Be or Not to Be (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1942); voice: Stanley Ridges as Professor Alexander Siletsky]
Perhaps those who may be among us for the first time
May be wondering what is going to happen now
It is of course necessary for the minds and the souls of us all
Wax Tailor, Ungodly Fruit
The clock is ticking. We have all the time in the world. #play
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.
The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe.
The lizard brain will fight (to the death) if it has to, but would rather run away. It likes a vendetta and has no trouble getting angry.
The lizard brain cares what everyone else thinks, because status in the tribe is essential to its survival.
A squirrel runs around looking for nuts, hiding from foxes, listening for predators, and watching for other squirrels. The squirrel does this because that’s all it can do. All the squirrel has is a lizard brain.
The only correct answer to ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ is ‘Because it’s lizard brain told it to.’ Wild animals are wild because the only brain they posses is a lizard brain.
The lizard brain is not merely a concept. It’s real, and it’s living on the top of your spine, fighting for your survival. But, of course, survival and success are not the same thing.
The lizard brain is the reason you’re afraid, the reason you don’t do all the art you can, the reason you don’t ship when you can. The lizard brain is the source of the resistance.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
On #liberty #free #speech in the era of #technological #amplification by Jason Pontin.
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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” Hunter S. Thompson. Farewell Rachid
Hunter S. Thompson. Farewell Rachid
I want your days to be filled with #poetry
The #amnesia of #amnesty #lebanon the #war has yet to end.
