I first heard this song on TV. It was an advertisement for Saab. I now listen to it whenever I feel "contained". While on a run. While on the job.
What do you do? I’m an analyst.
“So,” my wife’s friend asks, “what do you do?” I pause for a moment, prepare to say “business analyst”, but then decide not to because I didn’t think she’d understand what I did. I look at my wife and ask her, “what do I do?”, hoping she'd have a better answer. My wife looks at... Continue Reading →
I'm a sucker for personality tests. Here's one I haven't taken (and believe me I've taken many) which though I wouldn't read too much into its results, does seem in its own little way pretty accurate: ColorQuiz (I suppose one reason I like personality tests is that I'm always amazed when they get things right, and... Continue Reading →
Colour Quiz
On the Boston Marathon Bombings
I haven't written about it. I didn't think I would. But I think I should. The tragedy at the Boston Marathon has hit me worse than I'd thought. (“Why do you look so sad?” the wife asked. “I don’t know,” I replied.) I’m an avid runner, and one who has dreamt of qualifying for Boston... Continue Reading →
Automated out of a job
“Most of the time,” my friend told me,” they were just doing really manual work. Copying and pasting, doing very routine things that could have been automated. And they’d do these things for 8 or 9 hours a day, sometimes more. They’d come back on Saturdays just to finish their work.” He was talking about... Continue Reading →
I want to live a positively interesting life
Because that's the best way I know of living a "good" life. To live the good life, I'll want to live a positively interesting life. There's something I heard or read about before about performance measurement: that if you want to positively reinforce the behaviour of someone, you should not reward based on outcome, but rather... Continue Reading →
No GPS: Learning your way around through running
I wrote about a (wonderful) run I had a couple of weeks ago while holidaying in Perth. During that trip, I had had a very hard time figuring out the roads. Though I could travel the same route countless times (especially those close to where we were staying), my brain would for some reason or... Continue Reading →
On Making Plans
There's a saying attributed to Woody Allen: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." The first time I'd seen it, it made me laugh. Not because it was funny (though it was), but because it was true. It was a nervous laugh. Here's another quote from the book Rework, written by Jason... Continue Reading →
Exceptional talent is about hard work
Saw an article by Entrepreneur.com on Facebook about a section in Robert Greene's book, talking about how exceptional talent is about hard work: He says that there is no such thing as being born into superior success. Rather, those politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists, athletes and artists who rise above the rest in their field, achieving what... Continue Reading →
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