Musings of my complex self
Ask yourself whether you are happy…
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.— John Stuart Mill … Wikipedia defines happiness as “a state of mind or feeling characterised by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy.” Each of these concepts is hard to measure or quantify to provide a meaningful quantity to happiness. Consequently, when one asks…
Lifeless
I wrote a poem completely unplanned and after a very long time. I just got in a bus to the train station and felt like writing it. It might not be perfect but it says close to what I want to say and I am happy for it.
If you are going through hell, keep going…
If you are going through hell, keep going…Winston Churchill … The beauty here, in my opinion, is the play on the word “going”. The repeated word makes it straight-forward that you don’t have to put a lot more effort to keep going onwards since you are going anyway. The only problem would be you. More…
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it…
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe … The operating word here is not doing or dreaming; it is beginning. In fact, it is equated implicitly with boldness. Most men who count themselves successful by any measure are so not because…
Quotation Tuesday
I have not been doing this since long because I wanted to do it through a personal project I am building (or going to build). I have been too busy to work on that and consequentially, this never started. I now realize that even though it would still take some time but I should start…
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
The book also describes guidelines and best practices to write checklists that actually work and are useful as opposed to being just a formality. It gives example of aviation industry checklists used worldwide and describes the principles used in framing them. This adds to the practical value of the book, which otherwise, would have just…
A Whole Long Time
Let me count… It is about fifty days since I last wrote here. I have missed writing new entries here. With one thing or the other, I have stayed extremely busy these days. I moved to a new house in the first week of August and stayed busy with home shopping for rest of the…
Toy Story 3
It is not new to have a deeply emotional and touching story in an animated film. I can count many animated movies like Wall-E, How to Train your Dragon, Ratatouille, etc… that have an emotional tone and a thematic message.
Effectual Entrepreneurship
This is continuation to my previous post on my experiences in Startup Saturday, July 2010. This post concentrates on the highlight of the meetup which was a presentation on Entrepreneurship by Prof. Suresh Bhagavatula.
Startup Saturday, July 2010
Yesterday was my second participation in Startup Saturday organized by The HeadStart Network. The experience was insightful and enjoyable even if it was less attended. Read on for my experience at the meetup and look out for the followup post.
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