"No effort in this worldis lost or wasted;a fragment of sacred dutysaves you from great fear." -The Bhagavad-Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 40 trans by Barbara Stoler Miller For many years, I have believed that process is more important than product. You do not always have control over outcomes. Even with our best efforts, it is … Continue reading Process & Results
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Newsboat
Newsboat is the Mutt of RSS readers. Works and looks pretty much the same as mutt. In making the conversion, I learned that I have over 500 RSS feeds, which in combination with a few dozen newsletters via email is how I discover the material to post to this blog. I used to use an … Continue reading Newsboat
Do The Easy Bits First
"As soon as you've done the easy bit, everything around it becomes easier. This is the way we solve the puzzle.This is also the way we fix the world......If I run into a problem I can't solve yet, or I encounter a subject that's too hard for me, I go "Huh, interesting", and save it … Continue reading Do The Easy Bits First
A Page A Day = A Book A Year
"Lately, I've been following a dictum I first heard from writing coach Donald M. Murray. "A page a day," he said, "is a book a year."As the author of more than a dozen books, Murray knew what he was talking about. A double-spaced page of prose is 250 words. Multiply that by 365 days and you could … Continue reading A Page A Day = A Book A Year
The Resulting Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions – Issue 55: Trust – Nautilus
"In life, it’s usually even more complicated because in most real decisions we haven’t examined the coin. We don’t know if it is a fair coin, if it has two sides with a heads and tails on it and is weighted properly. That’s the hidden information problem. We can’t see everything. We haven’t experienced everything. … Continue reading The Resulting Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions – Issue 55: Trust – Nautilus
