PinnedWhat I Learned Working for Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” — [Attributed to] Mark Twain. Warning: I didn’t understand…Career Advice13 min readCareer Advice13 min read
Mar 7Career Advice for those without one!How to make one of the most important decisions of your life — “You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work…Career Advice10 min readCareer Advice10 min read
Jan 5Stress as a Catalyst for CreativityDonald Knuth, Stravinsky, and a Rabbi walk into a bar! — “Progress condemns idleness. The work needed to deliver humanity is vast. Indeed it is limitless, since as one plateau of achievement is reached another looms up. Of course this is only a mirage; but the worst of progress is not that it is an illusion. It is that it is…Work8 min readWork8 min read
Jan 2Babel Fish: The App that Lets You Talk to Animals!“The Babel Fish is a small, leech-like, yellow fish, and by putting this into one’s ear one can instantly understand anything said in any language… The Babel fish has led to significant and profound consequences for the Universe… The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a…Humor4 min readHumor4 min read
Dec 27, 2022The Least Flexible Man in the WorldAn Ode to Yoga — “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what…Yoga11 min readYoga11 min read
Nov 30, 2022Open Your ApertureOf global human consciousness — “A human being is a part of the whole called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us…Consciousness8 min readConsciousness8 min read
Nov 22, 2022You are what you eat.The modern diet and its discontents — “Sometimes you have to change the way you understand everything to properly understand a single something.” — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. “Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the…Diet11 min readDiet11 min read
Oct 18, 2022Virtual Nations: Prelude to RevolutionLet a thousand nations bloom — “Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms we’ve ever tried.” — Winston Churchill. “Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.” — Henry David Thereau. Civil Disobedience. “Much of history…Politics14 min readPolitics14 min read
Jun 17, 2022How my Mom cured Covid and caused a climate disaster!#MomCuresCovid — “If you have an argument with an older person, you should listen to them. It doesn’t mean they’re right. It means their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.” — Louis C.K. Oh My God! “We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrassed us. This is…Covid 195 min readCovid 195 min read
Jun 12, 2022The Billion Year PlanClimate Change and the Fate of Planet Earth — “The color of the global empire may well be green.” — Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. “Man in his arrogance” thinks himself master of the universe, believing he has uncovered all the mysteries of the cosmos. After all, he knows practically everything worth knowing since a…Climate Change12 min readClimate Change12 min read
