I was feeling sick. I mean really sick. Walking five steps would leave me gasping for air. My throat felt like murder (:bad). My head throbbed like a discotheque. But I had work to do. Work I didn't feel like doing, but which my professional self wouldn't let me off not doing. Let me share... Continue Reading →
To Judge a Life, Just Look at the Last Half
A beautiful quote from a beautiful book, Vegetable Roots Discourse, #92: If a singing girl is virtuous later on in accord with her circumstances, her earlier life of rouge and flowers will not matter. The faithful wife with white hair who lets down her guard nullifies half a life of chaste endeavor. The proverb reads,... Continue Reading →
Shipping like there’s no tomorrow
The concept of shipping as per Seth Godin is a beautiful thing. In essence it relates to the idea of getting something out (i.e. "creative output"; a "product") without the need to achieve perfection before getting that something out. Ship, get feedback, improve; then ship again, get more feedback, and improve once more. Do this... Continue Reading →
2015: Dare Greatly
Happy New Year! It is now 2015. 2014 has come and passed. It's had its ups and downs -- as had every other year preceding; and as will every other year succeeding, though in many ways this year has had a little more of the latter than the former. As with the start of every... Continue Reading →
Wanderlust
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Attributed to Augustine of Hippo, the quote above reignited latent wanderlust. If I had to be honest though, as much as I like the idea of Travel, the execution of the act of Travelling is very different. Alain de Botton,... Continue Reading →
Doing math as an analyst; work before school
I pick up my pen and write down what I see on the screen: 600 out of 14000 rows are selected based on the criteria A = 2 (that's 4%); if I switch over to A = 5, 135 out of 14000 are selected (that's only 1%) -- I now know the probability of several... Continue Reading →
Perspective Matters
120. 130. 140. We were now at 150km/h and cruising past traffic on our left, traffic already exceeding the official speed limit. Let's be clear: I wasn't the driver (let's call him Mr. X) In another world, the world before the one I had just entered, I would have been one of those on the... Continue Reading →
Business vs. IT
I felt like a lawyer. The call was in less than 12 hours, and I was busy preparing my case, consolidating evidence and building my story. To be honest, I wasn't 100% behind the argument I was preparing to put across, but I didn’t really have much of a choice. I had to believe -- how... Continue Reading →
Stars
I used to look up to the stars with a quiet mind and a quiet heart, thinking but not thinking; wondering but not wondering. It'd always amaze me how quickly the stars moved if I tracked them against something close by, like the tree outside that partially blocked my view. Without the tree as a... Continue Reading →
Different, with a better story
I'm currently watching The Voice of China. On that show, there's this singer called Perhat. He's, in the words of his fans, an "Uyghur Rock Star". I'm not really a fan. But that's just me. Many, many others think he's the next Bob Dylan. There is something about him. He's different from the other contestants.... Continue Reading →
Donn, fragments 