Archive for the ‘Observations’ Category
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
What is the meaning of life? It gets asked so many times, and few every really try to answer it. For all intents and purposes, it's a rhetorical question that we simply brush aside and move on to whatever it was we were doing. And for a ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
reflections at a bus stop
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.Steven Covey
So simple... yet so hard to actually do.
I kept repeating this to myself while at work today. I was doing some critical experiments for a new production process that I'm trying to get to work. I ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
In case you don't have time to view the vid below (which I recommend), This American Life host, Ira Glass, keenly observes that many people engage in a creative outlet and they genuinely have very good taste in that genre. At the outset, it's very frustrating because he wasn't ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
I've been silent lately for two big reasons: I've been devoting time to my other experiments, but more importantly - work has been insane!
I'm enamored with the idea of 'The Four Hour Work Week' and I've come to realize that all this talk about 'outsourcing' is beyond my reach ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
a random picture i took
I'd Rather Be Lucky than Good -- Lefty Gomez
This quote came to mind as I was reading through John P Schaefer's 'Basic Techniques of Photography'. He writes:
It is easy to slip into the habit of taking a picture of anything that catches your ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
I've recieved some feedback that has convinced me that turning off comments right now for my blog doesn't make sense. Here's a refresher collage image of my last posts in case anyone had a comment about them:
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Good decisions comes from having experience. Getting experience comes from making bad decisions.
I don't know who originally said this, but I love this quote and I find it to be very true. When I started my career as an engineer, I really floundered for a while. I ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
This past weekend, I attended a talk by a guy named Dylan Wilk (that's a picture of him). He had everything the world could offer. Forget luxury cars, he went to work in a helicopter. We wasn't even 30 years old. As he was ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
this really is my wallet. and this is about the amount of cash that I typically carry with me.
If all I did was write posts pointing to great 'This American Life' episodes, I'd have a new post every week. The urge to do this is so great because ...
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