June 2008
7 posts
Risks
We start running risks when we get out of bed in the morning. Risks are good for us, they bring out the best that’s in us. They brighten the eye and get the mind cooking. They put a new shiny look on our days. Human beings should never be settled, it’s ok for chicken, cows and cats, but it’s wrong for human beings. People start to die when they become settled. We need to keep...
Mythogenetic Moment
Joseph Campbell had a term for the nodal moment or temporal vortex: he called it themythogenetic moment. On the first page ofCreative Mythology, he signaled the 12th century as the last great mythogenetic moment in the history of Western civilization. … Campbell felt passionately that the transition into the 21st century could be a mythogenetic moment morally and spiritually equivalent to the 12th...
“Dream the dreams and then be foolish enough to make your dreams come true. That...”
– Vinod Khosla, Sun
“You don’t solve all of the problems before jumping into a new situation....”
– Vinod Khosla, Sun
“We were building a team for a Zero Billion dollar company.”
– Vinod Khosla, Sun
“Sometimes simplicity is more complex than complexity.”
– (I’d say not sometimes, but always!)
