The first time I took the first Bodhisattva Vow, it was done with humor, in a very serious way, of course. Not surprisingly, the person who opened that door for me was Dr Larry Brilliant, a laughing bodhisattva I’m honored to call my friend. In the Zen...
There is a great story on Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/googles_scott_h.html ) about Google’s “Evaluation Team” (“Eval”), the team which, among other things, measures the performance of...
A few months ago, I wrote about the idea of “Egoless Ego”. Main idea: To achieve breakthroughs, you need to have enough ego to know you can change the world, AND at the same time be egoless enough to know that you are mostly irrelevant. It is like being...
My friend, Ke, told me that in China, it is common for graduating students to write their own letters of recommendation in the names of their professors. If I got to write my own recommendation in the name of my professor, it’d look like this: Meng is, by far,...
Over the years, I’ve developed a 4-step plan to deal with my distress. I hope this would be helpful to you too. My 4 steps are: 1. Know when you’re not in pain. 2. Do not feel bad about feeling bad. 3. Do not feed the monsters. 4. Start every thought with...
