一旦登闻鼓被敲响，不论赵祯这个官家手头上有什么要紧事，都得出面去处理。别说刘娥晕厥了，就算是刘娥死了。赵祯也得出面。这就是赵匡胤就给百姓唯一的特权，只是百姓们没命用而已。 Read more

在塞内加尔，如果想礼貌地说某人逝世了，那就会说他或她的图书馆被烧毁了。 Read more

某种阶级位置最切实可感的一个方面，就是它能以何种方式替人挡下生活中的许多苦厄。 Read more

Having conflicting goals, dedicating resources to unconnected targets, and accommodating incompatible interests are the luxuries of the rich and powerful, but they make for bad strategy. Despite this, most organizations will not create focused strategies. Instead, they will generate laundry lists of desirable outcomes and, at the same time, ignore the need for genuine competence in coordinating and focusing their resources. Good strategy requires leaders who are willing and able to say no to a wide variety of actions and interests. Strategy is at least as much about what an organization does not do as it is about what it does. Read more

人ごみの中を歩くのは久しぶりだった。村崎はまるで自分が気まぐれで地上に降り立った神であるかのように感じた。こいつら有象無象とは別次元の存在なのだ。そういう自負があった。 Read more

寓意是“飞黄腾达”。 也就是希望腾达这个公司能够飞快地黄！ Read more

In literal translation, the word means: What God wills. A closer approximation of meaning— of one meaning— is something like: What has happened is what God willed. But English, tasked with a word like this, turns stiff and monophonic, and Mashallah is orchestral. Read more

Actually, I don’t exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears. Mostly the fears predominate these days. When my kids were young I could still hope we might not totally screw up the environment for them, but now that we’ve done so, and are more deeply sold out than ever to profiteering industrialism with its future- horizon of a few months, any hope I have that coming generations may have ease and peace in life has become very tenuous, and has to reach far, far forward into the dark. Read more

What all share is a recognition that we live in a polyphonic world, but also one in which the majority of Earth’s inhabitants– human and other- than- human– are denied voice. To be silenced is not the same as to be silent; to go unheard is not the same as to be speechless. No landscape speaks with a single tongue. Read more

The bathroom is empty, but I duck into a stall anyway. I wonder if every dude with a girlfriend finds himself hiding from her next to a toilet at some point. Read more