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Echo 14: Something
Lets try something new. I’ll comment on Marika’s blog posts with another blog post. This will make it easier to respond, generate a larger audience and increase posts per day. Yes, I’m pigbacking on somebody else’s work. 🙂 So without further ado, I present a new sporadic feature: Echoes to Ramblings. In response to Ramblings…
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Sleepless in Toronto
It is too early to blog this morning. I’m sitting in at work in an empty office space. Alone, just a few lights and mostly in the dark. Still dark outside with some street lights, the slow moving lights of communter’s car and random distant lights of various colours. The sun still has an hour…
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A Time for Silence
We live in a busy, bustling and noisy world. Ever since the industrial revolution and the explosion of commerce and industry, we have learned to make more and more noise. To the point, we get uncomfortable as my friend Marika pointed out. We get so used to the background chatter and noise, that when it…
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Quotes
Friedrich von Hayek: “We mustn’t assume that all problems are solvable in the short period. There are problems that we cannot solve or which trying to solve them quickly may do more harm than good.” Hayek was being interviewed by the press in 1975 on economic problems at the time. This question answers directly to…
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Variations of the Void Ad Infinitum
I sat today and wondered about the infinite variations of life, possibilities and their outcomes. This time I didn’t think about the standard what-if things happened this way or that in the past. Looking back into the past beyond analysing and preventing mistakes or repeating successes is pointless. A variation in a single event can…
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Perfectionism Rant
I’ll be the first to admit it. I am a perfectionist. At first glance, this is a very positive trait. I pay attention to detail. I can “hyper-focus” on a task, and flesh out all the issues with it. I want to bring into existence the best solutions, the most efficient code and most beautiful…
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Some Thoughts About Life and Consulting
Some thoughts to think about: Set expectations early. It avoids confusion and hassle in the future. Assertiveness instills confidence and helps achieve what you need. Smiling helps keep everyone positive and repels negativity from you. Show progress cause it encourages people. Review your goals and schedule time lines. This will make them concrete. Break up…
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As a Tree Grows, So Does One
In the headlong rush that my week or rather month turned out to be, I failed to notice it. From the parking lot that begins my morning commutes, I just noticed a beautiful tree growing at the side of the street. Thin, olive green leaves sprouting out of gnarled, weathered grey bark, and everything in…
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Approaching Freedom
Well its nighttime… and I am bored out of my mind. There is nothing to do except to think about tomorrow’s freedom, what the machine is doing and finally about other non-trivial but unimportant issues. Such as this rant: My musings about the operation of the human mind on a “fundmental” level: ~ has a…