How To Get "Real" in Community

Great article here from Bob Thune and Will Walker.

Check out their new book here.

The Golfer, the Leaf, and a Crisis of Conscience

Some things are more important than money. Great story here.

Public Repentance

This is pretty remarkable from Tim Cook, CEO of Apple:

 At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better. We launched Maps initially with the first version of iOS. As time progressed, we wanted to provide our customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice integration, Flyover and vector-based maps. In order to do this, we had to create a new version of Maps from the ground up. There are already more than 100 million iOS devices using the new Apple Maps, with more and more joining us every day. In just over a week, iOS users with the new Maps have already searched for nearly half a billion locations. The more our customers use our Maps the better it will get and we greatly appreciate all of the feedback we have received from you. While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app. Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the best in the world. We know that you expect that from us, and we will keep working non-stop until Maps lives up to the same incredibly high standard. 

- Tim Cook,  Apple's CEO

For some reason, I don't think Steve Jobs would have responded like this.  I think he would have just demanded to have the heads of everyone on the Maps team on a platter and delivered to his office, STAT!  Nonetheless, I think this response from Tim is winsome and honesty is always the best policy.  

Why We Lie

Not exactly the theological angle here that I would find ultimately persuasive, yet this study is quite interesting and points to our collective brokenness.

DAN ARIELY writing for the Wall Street Journal:

Everybody has the capacity to be dishonest, and almost everybody cheats—just by a little. Except for a few outliers at the top and bottom, the behavior of almost everyone is driven by two opposing motivations. On the one hand, we want to benefit from cheating and get as much money and glory as possible; on the other hand, we want to view ourselves as honest, honorable people. Sadly, it is this kind of small-scale mass cheating, not the high-profile cases, that is most corrosive to society.

Read the rest.