December 2011
13 posts
“When you’re sorting through your passions, consider what you have the potential...”
– Umar Haque (Marsha, ABSORB this DEEP DEEP down your soul!)
The Art of Living Well
Some quotes I love from Umair Haque’s (Author of Betterness: Economic for Humans, ranked one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50) article on the Harvard Business Review.
“What’s important is that what you’re doing matters — to yourself, to the people you love, and to something bigger, whether your community, society, or even...
Life and Music
By British Philosopher Alan Watts.
In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition.
If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest; and there would be composers who only wrote finales.
People go to concerts only to hear one crashing chord - because that’s the end…
Now, but we don’t see that as something brought by our...
Law & Innovation
A policy memo with a brief background on American law, to those interested :D
Innovation and growth of a country rely heavily upon the legal framework of the nation itself. The legal structure could either enhance the government to be efficient in various sectors, or prevent innovation and growth.
In Law & Economics, there are two types of efficiencies: Static & Dynamic. Static...
A Letter to Thomas Friedman
Dear Mr. Friedman,
In six moons, I ought to conquer;
A floating metal, ascending through the stratosphere.
Disguised as a star, induced by the wind;
Gliding along the circumference, contrasting universes transpire.
The ticking clock adjudicates, the distance restrains;
From longitudes to attitudes, the resistance is insignificant.
A vacuum filled with ambitions, indistinguishable from...
“My dream is to become an Ecnassianer Namow.”
If the Mayans were correct....
That means we all have exactly one more year left before the end of the world.
(Yes, yes I am aware of the actual history behind their calendar..So I guess, assuming the society’s common misconception towards the Mayan’s prediction is correct….)
Life is too short……………….(I basically fail miserably on almost all of these)
To neglect our true...
“Ah, worries. They’re just another variable in our life differential...”
The Top 5 Regrets People Have on Their Deathbeds
Shared by my lovely friend Sasha Kanarski via TMW
When Ms. Bronnie Ware, a woman who worked for years with the dying, wrote a list of the top 5 regrets people say aloud on their deathbed, we teared up a little bit here at TNW.
She posted the top 5 regrets along with her commentary on her website, and we’ve recopied them for you here below. But instead of just the grandmotherly bits of advice...
“I am 100% certain that I will one day read my old blog posts and laugh...”
Life is Like a Business Cycle
I would like to thank Steve Jobs, the Dalai Lama, and the 1929 stock-market crash of the United States for being the dominant inspirations for this post.
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Irving Fisher, a prominent economist from Yale University, announced the week before the US ‘stocks fell off the brink’ at the end of 1920s that the US were experiencing a “permanently high plateau”. Relating this to my recent IPE...
