Random Musings

1 If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities. 2 Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. 3 In unanimity, there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. 4 Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. 5. You can’t recover a fumble unless you’re on the field. Get out there. 6. First law of holes. If you get in one, stop digging. 7. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. 8. You pay the same price for doing something halfway as for doing it completely so you might as well do it completely. 9. It is difficulties that show what men are. 10. What you measure, improves. 11. If you are lost, “climb, conserve and confess” 12. It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. 13. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. 14. People don’t spend money ear...

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Multitasking and the effects in the new world..... and why FACE-FACE matters.... Great TedTalk by Cliff Nass

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

"  When you don’t create things, you become defined by  your tastes rather than ability.  Your tastes only  narrow & exclude people. So create!!."

 Read this Story... True Grit!!!... Inside the dark and dingy room on the terrace of a house in Tirupur, Coimbatore--the textile hub in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India -- six women are hard at work. "We have just two hours before the power is out and we have a target," Indumati shouts over the blaring sound of a compressor in the room. Cotton-like dust fills the humid room, but the women seem to be at ease even without masks. I cover my nose with a scarf as I watch them make the biodegradable sanitary napkins. The women bought the machines from a company called Jayashree Industries a little more than a year ago. A social entrepreneur, Arunachalam Muruganantham, manufactures them in a neighboring town, Coimbatore. The women faced resistance from their families: Their mothers-in-law told them, "it was as good as selling shit," and their husbands refused to fund them. So, they micro-financed the venture instead. ...

 if you want time to slow down, become a student again. Learn something that requires sustained effort; do something novel. Put down the thriller when you’re sitting on the beach and break out a book on evolutionary theory or Spanish for beginners or a how-to book on something you’ve always wanted to do. Take a new route to work; vacation at an unknown spot. And take your sweet time about it. Read more here