November 2010
6 posts
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“Never trust those hippies. They just want to keep you from killing one another....”
– WikaJunkie o Hnutí Brontosaurus.
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“1) Can you name one country where U.S. development intervention has been a...”
– “Ted” v komentáři k článku QDDR: we can hardly contain our excitement
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“The myth of scale is seductive because it is easier to spread technology than to...”
– Kentaro Toyama o tom, proč vznikají stále další a další “OLPC-like” projekty a rozvojový svět je pořád v průměru stejně chudý.
“Lámat hlavu si člověk nemusí. Buď budete bohatý, nebo chudý. Když budete bohatý,...”
– Němci byli nepřátelé, zrada Čechů mě bolí víc, říká židovský emigrant Harry Pollak - iDNES.cz
What burns you?
Make Mama Proud: Do you have any lessons for folks that getting out of school and either thinking about what to do or trying to do it?
Ben Losman:
When recruiting new Youth Venturers, we ask young people two major questions
(1) What burns you about society? and
(2) Do you have the courage to stand up and do something about it?
Start with the first question. Identify your passions and interests (it helps to do this with someone who knows you well); create a broad list of topics and issues that you can read and say to yourself, “I’d be excited to dedicate myself to at least one of these things.” Then start exploring the work that’s being done to address those issues. Using your issues as anchor points, cast a wide net – ask friends, family, professors, etc. for leads, ideas, and connections. Search for organizations and companies doing interesting work (idealist.org is my go-to starting point). Don’t filter the results by geography; you might find amazing work in a place to which you’d never move – use this as a stepping stone to discover new ideas and connections.
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“Armenians are an ethno-criminal network, imposing a threat to the whole world,...”
– Mubariz Ahmedoglu, ředitel azerbajdžánského Centra pro politické inovace a technologie v článku Azerbaijani political scientist: Armenians are ethno-criminal network imposing threat to the whole world