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The world mar­kets crashed recently, and we were reminded of the futil­ity of short term think­ing. A friend wrote a piece about blog­ging (link) Another blog­ger wrote on the virtue of long vs short posts . I read an inter­view in ‘The McK­in­sey Quar­terly’ with Al Gore and David Bloods, founders of Generation […]

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One of my con­stant sources of inspi­ra­tion is best-selling author Dan Mill­man. I am start­ing to notice a pat­tern here: two of my spir­i­tual guides (Jack Lalanne and Dan Mill­man) were for­mer ath­letes, and shared their per­spec­tives on life with oth­ers in a rather pub­lic way. If you know of more characters […]

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Aiming for excellence

by The Crazy Colombian on December 20, 2007

in Life, Opinion

 

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On Dan Millman’s blog, there was a recent entry that gen­er­ated some inter­est­ing com­men­tary (click here to see the entry and com­ments)
This is what was said that grabbed my atten­tion: “I feel the aspect of achieve­ment and suc­cess and making-something-of-oneself plays less of a role here in Europe. These are, after all, […]

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Corporate memory? The human record?

by The Crazy Colombian on December 7, 2007

in Life, Reflection

The human race, like many other enti­ties, oper­ates in cycles. Empires rise and fall. Sea­sons come and go. And we con­tinue to make the same mis­takes many times, over and over.
As indi­vid­u­als, we can rely on our mem­ory (if we have a decent one!) to remem­ber our mis­takes and try to avoid them in the future. […]

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Almost 20 years ago I was sit­ting on a class­room at the ‘Uni­ver­si­dad de Los Andes’ learn­ing about System’s The­ory. In that class-room, I learned a very use­ful par­a­digm: Almost any­thing you care to look at, can be inter­preted as a sys­tem that takes some inputs; processes them; and pro­vides some out­puts.
Throughout […]

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Can we fall out of love?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 23, 2007

in Life, Opinion

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When I started this blog, I wrote for myself. The blog started as a col­lec­tion of ran­dom thoughts I was hav­ing, pri­mar­ily dur­ing bor­ing busi­ness meet­ings (What? I thought this was about love!” You’re right, dear reader. Hang on there and we’ll get to it in a sec­ond)
However, […]

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Do you believe in Karma?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 21, 2007

in Life, Reflection

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Yes­ter­day I came across a blog post that related the sad story of a 76 year-old Trishaw dri­ver in Sin­ga­pore who was taunted and abused by 3 young and (obvi­ously) imma­ture men. (link to Youtube video)
In the last sen­tence of the post, the author extols us to “take a good look […]

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This is the sec­ond part of a com­ment to a post from a fel­low blog­ger. You can find his post here, and the first part to my response here. I hope you enjoy these new reflec­tions on his essay about the dan­gers of over­spe­cial­i­sa­tion.
– The crazy Colom­bian
REFLECTIVE COMMENT #2 — ON LETTERS AND THEIR HIDDEN […]

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Hello reader; we find each other again. I have an announce­ment to make. Over the last month, I found some­one very sim­i­lar, and at the same time very dif­fer­ent to me. His name is Andres Melo, and like me, he is a Colom­bian expa­tri­ate in an Eng­lish speak­ing coun­try (Canada).
Like me, he has a reflective […]

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Meditation through prayer?

by The Crazy Colombian on November 6, 2007

in Reflection, Religion

As some of my read­ers will know, I have been increas­ingly inter­ested in the Bud­dhist tra­di­tions. Over the last 18 months, I have read a lot about this phi­los­o­phy; learned about med­i­ta­tion; and increased my med­i­ta­tion prac­tice from about 15 mins every few months, to about 1 hour every day.
Last Sun­day, I was lis­ten­ing to Radio […]

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