February 2012
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Kasama-Yaki (Made in Kasama) A beautiful sample reel for a documentary in production directed by my friend Yuki Kokubo about her parents in Kasama, Japan. If you like what you see, please consider supporting the project on Kickstarter. Thank you. SYNOPSIS The triple disasters of March 11, 2011, shook Japan to its core. It claimed over 18,000 lives, with 3,000 still missing. Many thousands were...
Feb 29th
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“Everyone should have at least two friends who are different from them.” -Jon Yates If you’re not familiar with the work that The Challenge is doing in the UK, you should. Important and inspiring, and I believe will have a real impact on future generations. NB: Jon is a Class of 2008 Acumen Fund Global Fellow.
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“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– L.P. Jack from his Education Through Recreation, published in 1932. (HT swissmiss)
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“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in...”
– Eliel Saarinen
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“This shift of the configuration of the electrons inside the diamond has...”
– Brian Cox (HT Brain Pickings)
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“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”
– Paul Rand (via Brain Pickings)
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“When we copy, we justify it. When others copy, we vilify it.”
– Kirby Ferguson, Everything Is A Remix
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“The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather. People who think...”
– David Ogilvy, September 7, 1982 in an internal memo sent to all Ogilvy & Mather employees. (HT Brain Pickings)
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“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
– J. L. Borges
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“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were;...”
– George Bernard Shaw  
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“A billion dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s really cool? Making a hundred year...”
– Phil Libin, CEO Evernote (HT @collabfund)
Feb 20th
41 Pieces of Advice for High School Students
Last August, I had the privilege of speaking to a group of remarkable NYC high school students for the Pencils of Promise Leadership Institute. The night before the talk, I decided to ask my friends on Facebook for a little help. In an attempt to crowdsource a little wisdom, I asked “What’s one piece of advice you wish you had received when you were in high school?” To my shock,...
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Anonymous asked: what's for supper?
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein
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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is...”
– Lewis Carroll
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“Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment...”
– Alain de Botton
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“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
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“I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I...”
– David Ogilvy
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“It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or an antelope… when the sun comes up,...”
– Unknown
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“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others...”
– Jerry Rice
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“The mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive.”
– Laurie Anderson on Moby-Dick
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January 2012
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“When someone has to tell you to put your brushes down at night and you can’t...”
– As told to me by Nick Gamarello. (via ovadiaandsons)
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Anonymous asked: Hey James. My name is Juniper. I live in Brooklyn too. I moved here in October and have been looking for work. It's been hard because I've got an atypical type of resume. (I got a B.A. degree and then traveled the world for three years) Anyways, I saw from Shatterbox that you work with the Acumen Fund and wanted to ask how you got involved, and if you had an suggestions for someone like...
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