It is never too late to learn a new habit; never to early to shed the old like dead, useless skin. Bad habits are formed by the slow and steady accumulation of mindless minutes. As a million years of rainfall will smooth the slope of a mountain summit, so do a million misplaced moments warp [...]
The account of Sjida’s life is inspiring, Do read the whole thing! My prayers are for the people still in bondage, any form of bondage.
Sajida is a 29-year-old college-educated woman from a Christian family here (and a reminder that oppressive values in Pakistan are not rooted just in Islam). She scandalized her family by marrying [...]
It is one of the larger paradoxes of our time that the very same food policies that have contributed to overnutrition in the first world are now contributing to undernutrition in the third. But it turns out that too much food can be nearly as big a problem as too little — a lesson we [...]
wow, can’t say this enough: We Are All In It Together!
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In online discussions people say we should let the companies fail — they scare me even more, because they don’t understand how much our lives depend on each others. That was clear in New Orleans after Katrina. They couldn’t re-open the restaurants not because there [...]
Lyndon Baines Johnson before congress:
There is no cause for pride in what has happened in Selma. There is no cause for self-satisfaction in the long denial of equal rights of millions of Americans. But there is cause for hope and for faith in our Democracy in what is happening here tonight. For the cries of [...]
This was a great thought provoking story! Wow!
A programmer’s view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
I write a column for computer programmers called “Stevey’s Blog Rants.” It’s basically a magazine column — I publish to it about once a month. The average length of my articles is about 12 pages, although they can range [...]
This i priceless!
So the federal government is now sending $700 billion of taxpayer money to free market scions who, I remind you, spend millions on collective protest (“lobbying”) against any form of government aid — especially to the middle class, to the poor, and to foreigners.
Whither the Riot? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York [...]
The story was wow go read it!
I send messages to myself to remind of the days when I find myself with a lightness of being and an unexplainable happiness.
I woke up, went to church then, afterwards whilst commuting for work I just had that feeling and sms myself.
I open my computer at work, and read [...]
The impact of tax rates on productivity and development is something economists masterbate about, enterpreneurs don’t waste their time thinking about it. We have business to do.
Entrepreneurs live to be entrepreneurs. I have never had a discussion with anyone about starting a business that included tax rates. Ever. If anyone that wanted an investment [...]
excellent dichotomy.
Success is culturally defined. When you give the culture what it expects, the culture will reward that. But a leader is someone who gives the culture what it needs, not what it expects.”
Eric Musselman’s Basketball Notebook: Leadership is different than success.
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