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Beneficial all around, and particularly refreshing compared to the typical self-help literature of the genre. I loved the entwining of spirituality with material productivity (indeed, there shouldn't be a dichotomy in the first place) but Faris blew ...more "
“The types of photographs we post need ground rules as well. For example, it is wise to make sure no personally identifying information is accidentally put into a photograph. This includes things like license plates on your cars, the names of your kids’ schools, or your home address. Permission should be sought before posting a photo of someone else. In the case of minor children, this is even more important. It is not fair to them to create a digital trail of their lives that is publicly accessible without their input.”
― Fiqh of Social Media: Timeless Islamic Principles for Navigating the Digital Age
― Fiqh of Social Media: Timeless Islamic Principles for Navigating the Digital Age
“Unfollow relentlessly. Unfollow anyone who shares updates that are toxic, that bring negativity, or are even just annoying. Your feed is a place to exercise being selfish. If an account does not positively contribute to your life, then unfollow. This goes for unfollowing discussions in addition to people. It can be tempting to go down various rabbit holes while following trending discussions, or even the news. Exercise that same level of restraint. If a discussion is not of direct benefit for you, remove yourself from it.”
― Fiqh of Social Media: Timeless Islamic Principles for Navigating the Digital Age
― Fiqh of Social Media: Timeless Islamic Principles for Navigating the Digital Age
“A’isha, al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali, Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri and others described him. They said that he would work in the house with his family. He would delouse his clothes, mend his sandals, serve himself, sweep the house and hobble the camel. He would take the camels to graze and eat with the servants. He would knead bread with them and carry his own goods from the market.”
― Muhammad, Messenger of Allah: Ash-Shifa of Qadi 'Iyad
― Muhammad, Messenger of Allah: Ash-Shifa of Qadi 'Iyad
“As he deployed his forces, Newton imposed the same empirical rigor on his new job as he had with his pendulums and prisms. The Mint could not operate any faster than his men could spin their capstans, and every other step had to be timed to match the work of his presses. So Newton watched to “judge of the workmen’s diligence.” He saw how quickly the brutal effort needed to turn the press wore out its team. He observed just how nimble the man loading blanks and pulling finished coins from the press had to be to keep his fingers. Eventually, he identified the perfect pace: if the press thumped just slightly slower than the human heart, striking fifty to fifty-five times a minute, men and machines could stamp out coins for hours at a time. By autumn, Newton had the Mint’s output up to £100,000 every working week—a century ahead of Adam Smith, and more than double again before Henry Ford showed the world just how powerful time-and-motion rigor could be. Newton continued to drive his horses and men for the next two and a half years until the nation’s entire silver money supply had been remade. In all, under his command, the Mint recoined over £6 million—£6,722,970 0s. 2d., to be exact. As that last tuppence indicates, Newton, having spent the whole of his prior life as an essentially solitary thinker, proved to be a truly extraordinary administrator, bringing the effort home with accounts accurate to the penny and stunningly free of corruption.”
― Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism
― Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism
“THERE HE REMAINED for almost two years, cut off from every other scholar or mathematician. The isolation suited him. “In those days,” he would recall half a century later, “I was in the prime of my age for invention & minded Mathematics & Philosophy more than at any time since.”
― Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism
― Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism
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