Settembre 2010 Archives

There is seldom enough time and energy to do what you want to do, when you focus only from the level of physical doing. You must constantly let go, relax and refocus. If you're in a hurry, your vision can become myopic and your energy can be prematurely exhausted. With your clear intention inserted into the universe, trust that the method and the process and the resources for its manifestation will unfold in the grander scheme, in the best timing. Chill a bit, and allow yourself to play your bigger game.

You speed up by slowing down, tratto da Ready for Anything di David Allen, il fondatore della metodologia GTD.

Dai commenti del Votemaster di Electoral-vote.com:

The Republicans want to teach Murkowski a lesson and hurt her every way they can. For comparison's sake, when Sen. Joe Lieberman showed equal disrespect for his constituents in 2006 by running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, the Senate Democrats did not strip him of his seniority on the spot as the Republicans will do today to Murkowski. In fact, when Lieberman won, he was welcomed back into the caucus with no punishment at all. This difference is very characteristic of how the two parties operate. The Republicans are very focused and run top-down, with strong party discipline and clear rules. If you violate them, you are punished swiftly. The Democrats are far less coherent. Will Rogers' old joke is still applicable. When someone asked him if he was a member of an organized political party he said: "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat."

This strong party organization helps the Republicans and hurts the Democrats in many ways. For nearly two years, the Republicans with fewer than 180 seats in the House and 40-41 in the Senate have been amazingly successful at watering down or blocking most of Obama's legislation. During the Bush administration, when the Democrats had a much stronger minority position, they weren't able to block anything.

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Si scrive tanto sul web, si scrive troppo (considerazione che ovviamente vale anche per questo blog…) e sappiamo perfettamente che nelle "redazioni web" si viene pagati a cottimo, un tanto a post, forse un tanto a riga.

Non posso quindi biasimare più di troppo l'autrice di un articolo apparso sul supplemento seidimoda di Repubblica.it, intitolato La rivincita del vecchio drin parla di come tanti scelgano come suoneria per i cellulari, anche i più moderni, il vecchio e rassicurante suono di un telefono del passato. Guilty as charged, il mio iPhone ha proprio da sempre questo tipo di suoneria e quindi sono andato a leggere con piacere il pezzo.

Peccato che dopo un'introduzione e uno svolgimento del tutto precisi l'autrice abbia capito che era ben al di sotto della quantità di righe assegnatale e così si lancia nelle ipotesi del "successo trasversale del vintage", nelle spiegazioni psicologiche e nel meccanismo per cui "è il suono che ricorda casa" e addirittura "le antiche buone maniere". Meno male che non doveva riempire un altro paio di paragrafi…