January 2012
1 post
“The fact that you’re in over your head, that you almost cannot will yourself to...”
– http://blog.asmartbear.com/chaos-at-start.html
July 2011
1 post
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and...”
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
“Certain tasks and thought processes are best carried out without anyone else...”
– The power of lonely - The Boston Globe
“Entrepreneurship is and should be irrational. You are taking on huge risks,...”
– The “Tilt” Thing and the Case for Journalist Entrepreneurs
“A man sees an attractive woman and wants her to notice him. Women partially...”
– The Psychology Behind Why Hot Female Employees Increase Sales
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
3 posts
“The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with...”
– You Should Date An Illiterate Girl « Thought Catalog
“Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take...”
– Roosevelt’s approach to life
December 2010
1 post
“You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before...”
– Good and Bad Procrastination
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
7 posts
“Four years after getting married, about 10% are as happy as they were when they...”
– Art Aron, Psychologist
“My theory is that happy marriages are made up of a curious combination of lust,...”
– Adam Gopnik, Writer
“Change is caused by lazy, greedy, frightened people looking for easier, more...”
– Morris Theorem
My Time Budget - 2010
Sleep: 6 hours Work: 12 hours Preparations*: 1 hour, 15 minutes Commute: 30 minutes Total: 19 hours and 45 minutes Time to do anything else: 4 hours and 15 minutes
Am I running any deficits? I suppose only hindsight will tell.
* includes pre and post-sleep preparations. ie. shower, shave, breakfast, dress
“For women, the romantic fantasy of flying away with their dream lover is bound...”
– Psychology Today
“If you are an investor or entrepreneur, this is the best time in history to make...”
– Venture Hacks
“On the one hand, sperm is physiologically cheap, extremely plentiful, and...”
– Psychology Today
September 2010
3 posts
“It’s true that gold has enjoyed a dramatic rise in price over the last few...”
– The Gold Bubble by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal Summer 2010
“59% of Canadians would be in financial trouble of their paycheque was delayed...”
– Canadian Payroll Association
August 2010
6 posts
“The challenge facing the world’s 1.8 billion women and men who grow our food is...”
– Excerpt - The Coming Famine - By Julian Cribb - NYTimes.com
“‘It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men...”
– ~Bertrand Russell
June 2010
2 posts
“To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine,...”
– The School of Life
May 2010
5 posts
“Flashing her pearly whites can make a woman appear more generous, agreeable,...”
“People keep buying even when it’s unaffordable, loading up on debt because...”
– http://www.greaterfool.ca/2010/05/22/bc-3/
February 2010
2 posts
“It takes obsession to make a little company go. Forget “passion” — everyone’s...”
– Sacrifice your health for your startup
“We evolved to want to fit in like most species. You don’t have a long profitable...”
– Seth Godin
November 2009
4 posts
“The ultimate test of a man’s character is the health of his wife”
– Cyril Connolly
Poem: Oh Yes
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late. by Charles Bukowski
Kazakhstan's Radioactive Legacy
http://su.pr/2rKBpN - Chilling photojournalism of Kazakhstan’s radioactive legacy which has silently devastated three generations of people in Kazakhstan.
“It’s precisely when we stop believing in the idea that gods made religions that...”
– http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/utopia-june
July 2009
1 post
“When we skip a vacation to work overtime or pass up that awesome vintage Porsche...”
– Wired
March 2009
3 posts
“Rather than scaling vertically and building a company with systems, levels and...”
– Simplicity-Driven Entrepreneurship
“Make something people want” is the destination, but “Be relentlessly...”
– Paul Graham
“What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html
February 2009
5 posts
“A team from the University of Pisa in Italy found the bodily chemistry which...”
– Seems 5 years was too optimistic! Source: BBC NEWS
“Nothing kills startups like distractions. The worst type are those that pay...”
– Startups in 13 Sentences
“If you’re in debt then you’re a slave, in the sense that you do not...”
– Dave Ramsey