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Brad Stevens Can Coach

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9018653/shaka-smart-brad-stevens-butler-vcu With Brad Stevens being selected as the new coach of the Boston Celtics I thought about this awesome profile of Stevens and Shaka Smart from March 2013. I love Phil Jackson’s approach to leadership called process based coaching. Here are some great quotes from the article: Both are committed to positivity on the sideline, […]

NYT: Mindfulness: Getting Its Share of Attention

We’ve written about the yoga benefits for coders and programmers and here’s an excerpt of another interesting article about mindfulness and benefits. Mr. Gordhamer started Wisdom 2.0 in 2009 to examine how we can live with technology without it swallowing us whole. The wait lists for his panel talks and conferences now run into the hundreds. The […]

Everything Changes

Zen teacher Lewis Richmond tells the story of hearing Shunryu Suzuki sum up Buddhism in two words. Suzuki had just finished giving a talk to a group of Zen students when someone in the audience said, “You’ve been talking about Buddhism for nearly an hour, and I haven’t been able to understand a thing you […]