Curious Idiot

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~Mark Twain “I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.” - Shelby Foote “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” -Epictetus, Discourses, Book II, ch. 17 “First law of Bad Management: If something isn’t working, do more of it.” — Tom DeMarco “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed by who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.” — Alain de Botton “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” — Alan Turing

http://www.inner-growth.info/power_of_now_tolle/eckhart_tolle_interview_cohen.htm The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger. There's been an ego growth over thousands of years; it's growing to a point of madness, with the ultimate madness having been reached in the twentieth century. One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans. So in the present time, we can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now. It may be that at the...

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”  --Mark Twain “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”  --(Martin Fowler) "If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and two minutes later he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where t...

Note: HbA1C is in percentage, hSCRP is in mg/L, while the units of all the other parameters are in mg/dL. Note: My plan is it to do the tests every six months. I will keep adding to this table. My Interpretations: Fasting glucose has come down which I believe is good. Triglycerides have come down from around 150 to under 70 as soon as I started the diet. HDL is increasing but is very resistant and slow. I need to add more fat maybe. LDL has been increasing a little but I am not bothered at all :-) HSCRP has drastically(and danegerously) increased in Jan 2017 and July 2017. I am not sure how to interpret this. Antibodies had something serious to fight with? However it has come down in the last two reports to safe levels :-)  HbA1C is in a healthy range Ketones are now measured(D3HB) from July 2017. I removed breakfast in Jan 2017 and Lunch in July 2017. Still the ketones were in the lower border in Jan 2018. I suspect the curd which I have been taking afte...

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http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170227-this-is-why-the-boss-will-crush-all-your-good-ideas “The focus of a business starts to shift from long-term thinking and the focus is on next-quarter earnings." “The moment you focus on short-term profits, and not long-term revenues, you put handcuffs on innovation.” “The leaders don’t want to put that investment into play”. “They would rather focus their efforts on immediate revenues.” “Corporations hire bright folks, but they don’t hire risk takers". “[They] hire folks who are like them.” So if a manager is not a risk-taker, he’s likely to hire another person who doesn’t take risks. “And his manager’s boss? Same story”.