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  • Posted on August 31, 2009
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Psalm 16:11

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David Bonifacio

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@elijahbonifacio negotiating the rules. But I’m @elijahbonifacio negotiating the rules. But I’m an old school dad with old school tricks up my sleeve.
Fresh from a swim! Love this boy! Fresh from a swim! Love this boy!
I learned a lot from the book Thinking Fast and Sl I learned a lot from the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman, so was excited to read this. I like books like this that make me think about how I think, allowing me improve how I capture, process, and apply ideas, information, and impulses. We really are not as controlled as we think we are. Bien aware of the role of things like our subconcious, our biases, our inner noise, the environment’s noise, help us build systems around us to improve judgement. I really loved this quote that explains why the wisdom of crowds many times crashes into the madness of mobs: “Independence is a prerequisite for the wisdom of crowds. If people are not making their own judgments and are relying instead on what other people think, crowds might not be so wise after all.”
David the Grouch #jumpropehusband part 2 Volume Up David the Grouch #jumpropehusband part 2 Volume Up! Because of my last post on the IG madness (see my IGT) I had to make up for it with this video of @yasminperucchetti and @kristieboni Disclaimer: Well in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking at this matter in a different way and without fighting and by trying to make it clear, and by considering each and every ones opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.
Volume up! @elijahbonifacio and I were having a d Volume up! @elijahbonifacio and I were having a discussion about how crazy all this Instagraming and Tik Toking has become. 😂 Well in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking at this matter in a different way and without fighting and by trying to make it clear, and by considering each and every ones opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say. Disclaimer: This is a joke! It’s a free world. Video all you want. Besides, @yasminperucchetti rarely asks me to video her other than… ehem… that’s private.
“Now you know it's not the suit that matters but “Now you know it's not the suit that matters but the pilot inside." -Char Azanable 😉
I remember my friend, @benjomarquez asking me once I remember my friend, @benjomarquez asking me once, after a breakup, “So what did you learn from this latest experience?” I told him, “I now know what I knew.” I’ve been feeling that way a lot lately. It’s like old lessons taught to me as a child, many of which I didn’t think of so much, coming back to me with fresh value. When I feel the joy from giving with ease, when I feel the peace from morning prayer in the midst of a storm, when I feel the excitement from giving my best even without assurances, I realize that all these seemingly new themes were being addressed by ancient wisdom. Creativity, generosity, and contentment as answers to poverty; selflessness, humility, and forgiveness, as answers to inner restlessness; and the list goes on, I keep thinking, “I knew these in my head but now I know them in my heart.” In a time when the necessary information is just a Google away, it’s important to make a distinction between knowing the information and understanding the principle, and to be humble. Just because I’ve read a book or an article, just because I watched a YouTube video or spoke to a successful person, doesn’t mean I understand. It is possible that it is simply data sitting on a hard drive with no application. All of this to say, don’t stop seeking for understanding. You may just find the two things I find over and over, that I really don’t know that much and the things I thought I knew, I’m only really starting to appreciate properly today.
New post nearly done: Think Thrice. Jumping from m New post nearly done: Think Thrice. Jumping from my last article about The Case of the Easily Triggered, The Case of the Constantly Paralyzed, and The Case of the Never-At-Rest, I’m sharing how more mindfulness, more thoughtfulness, more thinking about and thinking through, makes us behave much differently then when we react with our impulses, biases, and appetites. This post is my simple 3-question filter to help an impulsive guy like me think about and through things.
An excerpt from my latest blog post on Thinking. An excerpt from my latest blog post on Thinking. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback (both the positive and negative). I hope the article caused you to think and not just trigger an emotionally positive or negative reaction. 😂 Part 2 drops this weekend. If you want to see more of my business-specific posts, please follow @bridgesoutheast and @theemergentph, where I (and others) share more of our thoughts on creating and capturing value at work.
September 1, 20201 - The One Thing to Know (Writte September 1, 20201 - The One Thing to Know (Written on @elijahbonifacio’s 4th birthday) When my son was younger, I wrote a poem that said, “fast goes the time you can’t have back”. As we celebrate his 4th birthday (his second under pandemic), it’s sad to think that over a 4th of his life has been spent mostly in our apartment. While I’m grateful that he is healthy and developing, I am concerned about a generation of children growing up, asking, “If I go outside will I get sick and die?” And I can’t worry about my son without worrying specifically for the Philippines, for the majority of children, all with amazing potential, who are relying on our government leaders to chart a path out of this pandemic, out of this economic slump, and out of this national downward spiral. The critical time of their development years going to what? How are they going to grow to be competitive and get out of poverty? There remains to be no light at the end of this political tunnel. Fast goes the time you can’t have back.
One more sleep until this boy’s birthday! 4 year One more sleep until this boy’s birthday! 4 years of joy!
Book Recommendation: Dominion by Tom Holland (not Book Recommendation: Dominion by Tom Holland (not Spider-Man). Since I picked this up at @dauntbooks in 2019, I’ve been going back to it quite regularly during my morning prayer to be reminded of the central message best summarized in this passage: “If secular humanism derives not from reason or from science, but from the distinctive course of Christianity’s evolution – a course that, in the opinion of growing numbers in Europe and America, has left God dead—then how are its values anything more than the shadow of a corpse? What are the foundations of its morality, if not a myth? A myth, though, is not a lie. At its most profound—as Tolkien, that devout Catholic, always argued—a myth can be true. To be a Christian is to believe that God became man and suffered a death as terrible as any mortal has ever suffered. This is why the cross, that ancient implement of torture, remains what it has always been: the fitting symbol of the Christian revolution. It is the audacity of it – the audacity of finding in a twisted and defeated corpse the glory of the creator of the universe—that serves to explain, more surely than anything else, the sheer strangeness of Christianity, and of the civilisation to which it gave birth.” Historically, the strangest thing about the Christian belief, what should have remained the distinctive factor, were people who thought it glorious to CARRY A CROSS for love of God and love of others. Throughout history, “great people” and “great thinkers” hated this message because they saw it as weak, and indeed, when you look at religious places like the Philippines, the faith is extremely weak against corruption, against injustice, and against selfish materialism. Too many Christian leaders keep telling their flock to suffer now because there’s a heaven. I hate that message. There are not enough Christian leaders telling their people that the goal is not to simply to suffer but to carry your cross, suffering may be a part of that journey, but the Christian journey isn’t merely one of suffering, but of glory. Christ carried his cross, not to suffer for nothing, but to save. And we are called to do the same.
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