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Bill Gates’s 10 (or 11) rules of life!!!

I saw a post on Twitter about Bill Gates’s 10 rules of life, and I clicked it. I found the list quite good, but the post was a bit vague. It says that the 10 rules were given in a high school event, but it didn’t mention which high school, or when.
So I Googled it, [...]

Human Chemistry

I just had an unusual enlightenment this afternoon, as witness some event took place.
Human interaction dynamics are often called “chemistry” for all the right reasons. Persons are the elements, and they react with each other with such a chemistry-like reactions.

Elements and persons have different degrees of reactivity.
Elements and persons have different polarities, and some have [...]

‘The’ quote from Vinod Khosla

“An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.” — Vinod Khosla

Hedonic Treadmill

This is from Investopedia.com.
What Does it Mean?
The tendency to remain at a relatively stable level of happiness despite a change in fortune or the achievement of major goals. According to the hedonic treadmill, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. The hedonic treadmill theory [...]

Don’t contradict yourself

Two days ago, I listened to John C. Maxwell’s latest Audio Book, titled “Leadership Gold.” In the preface, he mentioned that he had been wanting to write such a book for a while, but he strove to wait until he turned 60 before writing it. There is a wisdom to hold yourself off, especially when [...]

Quote of the day

“Try and fail;  Do not fail to try” — Dhandapani Murugesan

Richest potato peeler salesdude

MSNBC has a nice story on the a potato peeler salesman who has resides on Park Avenue.
Simple old mantra at work:
Step 1. Be good at what you are doing.
Step 2. Repeat.
Step 3. Profit.

Love the Bailout, like chemo therapy

The economic bail out package just failed at the House, 228 – 205. The stock market plunged, and I am a few thousand dollar poorer because of that.
A few days ago, my wife and I watched “Sex and the City”, the movie.  There was a moment when a sentence uttered with the words “chemo therapy” [...]

Only once!

The person in my head today is Marc Cuban. He crept in my head while I was reading his interview with Jason Calacanis at TechChrunch50.
Marc is a self-made billionaire, who started selling trash-bags while he was 12 to buy some cool shoes. In one sense I was doing better (or worse??) than him for not [...]

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