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“I know a lot of people in the tech and design community in New York but don’t know any knife-makers or doctors,” said Mr. Karnjanaprakorn. “I wanted to meet people in other industries — someone I would never meet otherwise but would really get a lot of value out of meeting.” - Taisha Rucker

sk what her “brand” is, and she replies as well as any Madison Avenue advertising executive: “Optimistic, accessible, universal.” It’s true. Her music is the kind of upbeat, bubblegum pop that appeals as much to teenagers in Tokyo as in Tooting. “It’s R&B but not too R&B. It’s poppy but not too poppy. Hardcore but not too hardcore,” she says. She dresses trendy “but not too trendy. I never want people to think I just wear ‘this’ or ‘that’ designer and that they cannot afford my stuff.” - Taisha Rucker

weaving the essence of the story over and through every single aspect of the script so that the cumulative affect on the executive or producer will evoke particular emotions and unconscious associations. - Taisha Rucker

Steve blogged about the whole process on www.thetolltakermovie.com. He’s even cut together a trailer for the short and put together a few short behind-the-scenes clips that are on YouTube. - Taisha Rucker

came to understand that it wasn’t how much any person had or didn’t have that mattered. It was the spiritual lessons they were learning from what they possessed and how well they consciously, lovingly, and intelligently managed their possessions, and how capable they were of sticking to spiritual principles no matter how much wealth, or what kind of circumstances they faced in their lives. Perhaps this is why so many spiritual people go through both prosperous and adverse situations. Like the double dorje, they are learning to stand poised at the center of the circle, staying spiritually balanced no matter the outer circumstances of their world. - Taisha Rucker

On the Questions to Ask Before Writing a Script. The first question is: Whose story is this? It sounds simple, but it's not. Then: What do they want? And that want has to last the whole film. And then: Why should we care? Are we going to be participants in this film, or spectators? Then: What's the cost for the hero? What price does he or she have to pay? Is it life or death? Is the point of view that rigorous in the film or does it go all over the place? What's important is how rigerously you address these questions: Does the hero own every bit of that film? Does he own everyone in it? Every scene? Every action? How does Joe the Hero own the scenes he's not in? - Taisha Rucker

At the Centre of Applied Positive Psychology, a British consulting firm, Robert Biswas-Diener (Ed Diener's son) has started a charity called the Strengths Project, which has worked with slum dwellers in Calcutta to help them identify, develop, and use their strengths to improve their circumstances. - Taisha Rucker

A man is asked to lie, on pain of death, by an unjust ruler. This lie will see another man who has fallen foul of the regime sentenced and then put to death for a capital crime. We don’t know what we would do in that situation, but – and this is key – we do know what we ought to do. Neiman writes: ‘Not pleasure but justice can move human beings to deeds that overcome the strongest of animal desires, the love of life itself. And contemplating this is as dizzying as contemplating the heavens above us: with this kind of power, we are as infinite as they are.’ - Taisha Rucker

It's a gangster state, running on gangster economics, and even prices can't be trusted anymore; there are hidden taxes in every buck you pay. And maybe we can't stop it, but we should at least know where it's all going. - Taisha Rucker

If the falling relative price of basic necessities (other than health care, of course) has reduced the proportion of people who go without basic necessities, then that is a great thing. But that is not the same thing as a decrease in inequality - Taisha Rucker

Instead, she uses what she calls "wise wandering," a system of positive psychology, chaos theory, and visual mapping techniques to help students - and anyone - figure out what skills they have, what personal values matter most to them, and how to channel it all into a career they'll love. - Taisha Rucker

As Wittgenstein, whose views on religion Armstrong thoroughly endorses, also said, an inner process stands in need of outward criteria. You can feel good without being good, and be good without stretching your understanding beyond words. - Taisha Rucker

Until artists begin behaving like adults who run a business, they will be treated like children who have a hobby. - Taisha Rucker

substitute tofu for eggs - Taisha Rucker

For example, he wrote that, “a person who truly believes in God would never try and thrust the idea on anyone else, just as when you understand mathematics, you are not a fanatical proponent of the idea that two and two are four.” - Taisha Rucker

Government data show the percentage of unmarried people surged from 14% to 47% for men aged 30 to 34 and from 8% to 32% for women over the three decades ending in 2005 - Taisha Rucker

Do you miss city life -- the book parties, the cocktail lounges, the ballet -- or have you so overcome Weberian alienation from the modern world that you could no longer give a shit about any of it? I don't really miss city life at all. I wasn't leaving anything behind I felt deeply attached to. In fact, I never succeeded there in terms of being happy or comfortable, or even doing the things one is supposed to do in the city. I'm never lonely here. I'm never longing for life. - Taisha Rucker

What we've lost, in a word, is monoculture. Michael Jackson is the final pop star of seeming consequence to everyone -- not just people who don't normally care about music, but people who don't care about culture, period. Obviously, it's been a quarter-century since that was unequivocally true. But he's the last pop musician for whom it was even equivocally true. - Taisha Rucker

For him, the solution to big business is small business; he pits the work ethic and scrappy spirit of “small commercial enterprise” against the “softly despotic tendencies” of “outsized corporations.” - Taisha Rucker

I'm not made at this at all! - Taisha Rucker

In other words, the individual and social costs of a bad diet have their roots in institutional and political policies. "It is cheaper and easier to eat unhealthy," Shira explains, "and those cheap and unhealthy foods are what’s contributing to the diet-related diseases that are running rampant—diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease. But that’s not necessarily how it has to be. They are artificially cheap because of farm subsidies—cheap meat, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils." - Taisha Rucker

Beats law school. - Taisha Rucker

Four decades later, however, it's worth considering how far the idea of Asian America has come, and how far it can go. Does Asian American identity still have meaning? Have prevailing attitudes towards race evolved to a point where the term "Asian American" limits us rather than lifting us up? Has the moment passed? - Taisha Rucker

Ouch! Unless you're a white man, at least. - Taisha Rucker

"You can't plan an inspired life." You will never know the way, but the way knows the way. - Taisha Rucker

Learning a trade is not limiting but, rather, liberating. If you are in possession of a skill that cannot be exported overseas, done with an algorithm, or downloaded, you will always stand a decent chance of finding work. Even rarer, you will probably be a master of your own domain, something the thousands of employed but bored people in the service industries can only dream of. - Taisha Rucker

What the world needs now is an actualization index that measures something worthwhile, something that helps us move people up both the economic pyramid as well as Maslow's needs pyramid. - Taisha Rucker

An example of an action platform would be something like "plant a garden to feed the local homeless." One person might secure the site, another might convince a local nursery to donate seeds, someone else might know a graphic designer with the time and inclination to create promotional leaflets, another participant could print those, while volunteers plant, harvest and distribute crops — and so on. These tasks appear will in a zoomable timeline with photos, videos and blog-style updates, putting each step into context so individuals can see the effect they’ve had. - Taisha Rucker

If you were a James Bond villain, how would you take over the world? -- Andrew Noseworthy I'd release a pheremone that increases the fear that people have about doing great things. It would only increase it by 3%, but that would be enough to wipe out most competition. I'm convinced someone is already doing this, by the way. - Taisha Rucker

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