Random Musings

Some interesting titbits on parenting young children from my favorite parenting blog . Could'nt help but smile at some of the bolded ones :-) 1 . Teenagers need to make dumb mistakes to get smart. 2 . Be ALERT but not ALARMED. 3 . Be compassionate and concerned but not enmeshed. 4 . Love them but do not worship them like idols or despise them when they let you down. 5 . Be observant without spying or prying. 6 . Pretend you have seven kids: Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy, Doc (the “know it all”), Sneezy (Does he have a learning disability? An undiagnosed handicap of some kind?), Happy (Is he too laid back? Where is his passion, focus, ambition and drive?) and that which ever of these seven appear in your child’s form on any given day, they are all just going through a phase 7 . When they come to you in distress, resist responding like a concierge, talent agent or the secret police. Assume that they are capable of figuring out — through trial and error — how to solve their own prob...

A nice essay guess this is what "most" parent's goes through.....growing up his/her kids :-) http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/a-fathers-acceptance/

"It's not what we have in our life- it's who we have in our life that counts"

Great talk by Sir Ken Robinson

The true size of Africa!!! http://twitpic.com/2woim6/full

A story from a startup CEO that failed... and some advice "You'll hear a lot about why company A won and company B lost in any market, and in my experience, a lot of the theories thrown about -- even or especially by the participants -- are utter crap. A domain name doesn't win you a market; launching second or fifth or tenth doesn't lose you a market. You can't blame your competitors or your board or the lack of or excess of investment. Focus on what really matters: making users happy with your product as quickly as you can, and helping them as much as you can after that. If you do those better than anyone else out there you'll win." http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint

Interesting finding of why diversity in a group helps... "That collective intelligence, the researchers believe, stems from how well the group works together. For instance, groups whose members had higher levels of "social sensitivity" were more collectively intelligent. "Social sensitivity has to do with how well group members perceive each other's emotions," says Christopher Chabris, a co-author and assistant professor of psychology at Union College in New York. "Also, in groups where one person dominated, the group was less collectively intelligent than in groups where the conversational turns were more evenly distributed," adds Woolley. And teams containing more women demonstrated greater social sensitivity and in turn greater collective intelligence compared to teams containing fewer women." http://www.physorg.com/news205076011.html