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The Art of Not Wobbling
From a book that my brother was reading ( Read more... ) -
Modems
I read something recently, which implied the following - "We are modems. Walking, talking modems deciphering the analog and feeding it into the Web".
I thought it was interesting. Maybe we ARE really feeding large datasets to enable evolution of the next dominant species. -
Silence
From Verlyn Klinkenborg, on NYTimes:
For the past week, I’ve been staying in northern Finland, just south of the Arctic Circle and a few kilometers shy of the restricted zone that marks the Russian border. This is the boreal forest, a place of almost surreal silence this time of year, when most of the birds have already migrated ( Read more... ) -
Tips for Fuel efficiency - from Shell
Well, crude has come down to $124, from $147, but even 124 is high.
Petrol prices continue to be at an all-time high. So, here you go.
20 tips from Shell, for fuel-efficient driving. -
Steve Jobs, and Experience
At the D Conference this year, Steve Jobs made an interesting statement - If you want to hire bright and creative people, you can’t over rule them ... You can do that once or twice a year.
At the same conference, he also made another interesting statement during his much-hyped discussion with Bill Gates. When asked what he wished he could learn ( Read more... ) -
Opium, and How India Created Hong Kong
Li Ka Shing, one of the world's richest people, is a name known to fewer people than one would expect. Astute followers of Indian business would have seen him mentioned recently, during the Vodafone acquisition of Hutch. Newspapers referred to him by his nickname - "Superman".
I was reading through his mini-bio on wikipedia. Li seems to have had a ( Read more... ) -
The Psychology of Success
Guy Kawasaki's blog - 2 blocks snipped ..
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/guykawasaki/Gypm/~3/101811192/the_effort_effe.html
Here’s some food for thought: perhaps this explains the inexorable march toward mediocrity of many (temporarily ( Read more... ) -
For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Well. That, supposedly, was Hemingway's shortest story. All of 6 words. A very deep 6 words, if you ask me. What happened to the baby? Why were the shoes never worn? And why are they for sale? Many questions. I doubt I could write such 6 words.
So Wired asked popular sci-fi writers to write a story, in no more than 6 words. Arthur Clarke had an 11 ( Read more... ) -
On Affirmations ..
Scott Adams speaks about Affirmations, as a technique that makes things happen. Briefly put -The idea behind affirmations is that you simply write down your goals 15 times a day and somehow, as if by magic, coincidences start to build until you achieve your objective against all odds.
But I would guess the biggest confusion here is that one doesn't ( Read more... ) -
Interesting article on China
Here is an article that challenges popular perceptions about China. It references a few other articles, notably this WSJ article (subsc reqd).
Western views of an authoritarian central government in China that controls all activity in the country help to reinforce the misconception that there is a single China. There is no doubt that the central ( Read more... )