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Tara Brach on Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion.

March 3, 2022 In Insight 6 Mins Read By Lanre Dahunsi

Tara Brach is an American psychologist, author, and proponent of Buddhist meditation. She is a guiding teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. USA. Tara Brach is one of my favourite meditation teachers, I found her books: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame and Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN; to be very helpful and insightful.

In her work, Brach expands on concepts and ideas such as RAIN, Buddhist meditation, Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion, Loving Kindness, living in trace, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Self-healing, Self-nurturing, among other life changing topics.

Book Summary: Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda.

February 28, 2022 In Book Summaries 11 Mins Read By Lanre Dahunsi

Get busy. Decide what it means to do great work, and then try to make it happen. Success is never assured, and the effort might not be easy, but if you love what you’re doing, it won’t seem so hard.

Ken Kocienda worked as a software engineer and designer at Apple for over fifteen years. In Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, Kocienda takes the reader on a journey of how some Apple Inc. products such as the Safari Web browser, iPhone and iPad were built, the design thinking, the key players, Apple’s innovative DNA, working with Steve Jobs, dealing with corporate politics and what it feels like working in an innovation baised company like Apple.

Apple is a top-down leadership, bottom up Contribution organization.

Masterclass: Marc Jacobs teaches Fashion Design

February 26, 2022 In Masterclass 8 Mins Read By Lanre Dahunsi

Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer from New York City. After graduating from the High School of Art and Design in 1981, Marc entered Parsons School of Design, where he stood out among his classmates by winning both the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award and Design Student of the Year in 1984. In 1997, Marc was appointed creative director of luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton, where he created the company’s first ready-to-wear clothing line. He is now the head designer for his own eponymous fashion label, Marc Jacobs. Marc is a five-time recipient of the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Womenswear Designer of the Year Award.

Book Summary -Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey.

February 21, 2022 In Book Summaries 8 Mins Read By Lanre Dahunsi

Keep one important, complex object of attention in your awareness as you work.

In Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction, Canadian writer and productivity consultant Chris Bailey describes strategies for maintaining and controlling focus, determining priorities, and minimizing interruptions in order to increase productivity.

Masterclass: Steve Martins teaches Comedy

February 19, 2022 In Masterclass 6 Mins Read By Lanre Dahunsi

Steve Martin was born in 1945 and raised in Inglewood, California. An imaginative youth, Steve nurtured a love for performing at an early age and became a talented musician and magician in college before turning his focus to comedy. He began writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour while in college, and in 1969 won an Emmy Award for his work on the show.

Steve cultivated a small but dedicated fanbase in the 1970s for his stand-up routines, but it wasn’t until his 1976 appearance hosting Saturday Night Live that he became a renown comedian. Following his breakthrough, Steve transitioned from stand-up to acting and cemented a reputation as a blockbuster movie star with films like The Jerk (1979) and All of Me (1984). To date, he has acted in over 45 films and written 11.

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level by Leander Kahney.

February 18, 2022 In Biographies 10 Mins Read By Lanre Dahunsi

Technology writer Leander Kahney, author of numerous books about Apple subcuTechnology writer Leander Kahney, the author of numerous books about Apple subculture and products, chronicles the journey of Apple CEO Tim Cook as the leader of the most valuable company in the world. When the founder and former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs died in 2011, there was a lot of skepticism surrounding the selection of Tim Cook as the new Apple CEO.

It’s easy now to look at Cook’s ascent to the head of the world’s biggest tech company as the markings of a new era for Apple, but in 2011 it felt more like an ending than a new chapter.

Tim Cook has steadied the Apple ship, leading the company to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company. Drawing on access with several Apple insiders, Kahney reveals how Cook have been able to maintain the Apple culture of innovation by taking some tough decisions, humane leadership, reinventing Apple’s supply chain and committing to his core values. In January 2022, CNBC reported that Apple first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap.

John Fisher’s 2018 University of San Francisco Commencement Speech.

February 16, 2022 In Speech 9 Mins Read By Lanre Dahunsi

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and CEO of medical technology company, CrowdOptic Jon Fisher delivered the 2018 commencement address to the graduating students of the University of San Francisco.

John Fisher’s 2018 University of San Francisco Commencement Speech Transcript:

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