May 2023
After returning from a meditation retreat, Rohit wrote this epic post that covers a lot of insightful ground: Prisoner's Dilemma It even features Preeta . :) While I'm at it, a few tidbits from here and there ... Inspired by Nimo and Guri 's intent, our climate challenge…
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In the beautifully curated and produced Who Am I? video shown this morning, we were inspired by tidbits from many different corners of the world! That reminded me to underscore an invisible part of our platform -- that it allows people to engage across languages! In your settings , if you…
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[TLDR: this weekend, we start a 21-day, me-we-us Laddership Pod that you may like to explore. More here: Dancing with Emergence ] I've recently been thinking about how serendipity might become an endangered resource. These days each one of us has a " data double " -- and the more we identify…
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Today, 75 years ago, Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist. Seeing some photos in today's NYT brought up our recent time together. Particularly Ishtar's feeling that few people in this particular retreat might've previously volunteered with Gandhi. :) After I left India, I flew…
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In basketball, a lesser known metric is the “hockey assist”. It’s easy to spot the player who scores the basket, and even the player who assists that score. But a hockey assist goes back to one more person – a player whose pass enables another player to assist the scorer.…
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Last week, I had the delightful joy of being interviewed by Michael Krasney -- who hosted the top-rated show on NPR for 25+ years. Here's the interview that they titled: A Deeper Thanksgiving And this is how Michael shared it online: We met with Nipun Mehta, the founder of…
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Dear ServiceSpace Friends in India, I hope you are doing well. After almost three years, since the start of the pandemic, my India karma has ripened again. :) This winter, I’ll be traveling to Awakin Circles in various cities, and hope we get a chance to hug in-person! In particular, it…
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Dear Volunteers, It's so exciting that all of us are coming together to volunteer for this Pod. While we will invariably practice giving, this is also a great opportunity to practice receiving. :) In particular, receive lived experience of how context informs the content. We have…
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Following our announcement , 900+ folks have applied for 21-day of Interfaith Compassion -- from 53 countries! To support that geographical breadth, we just launched our "live translation" and "live audio" for ALL our pod posts. To try the translation, change your language preference in…
Read →August 2022
Last week, Jennifer mentioned how she was a rather slow reader -- that it would help her, and many like her, if we could listen to an audio recording instead. And lo and behold, this week, all our pod documents have a "listen" button in the top right . It'll be a particular boon for visually…
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