Category: thoughts
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Get off the computer if you want to do anything original
Being in front of the computer is detrimental to your thinking. I’ll go as far to say that it kills your creativity. It robs you of your ability to have eureka moments of new ideas.
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Ulysees
Ulysees – Lord Alfred Tennyson “We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
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Airtime
I try not to be a cynic, but this is the second best monetization idea Airtime could come up with? Sell users special effects such as the ability to give someone a virtual mustache or to set their head on fire and blow it. source: Launch of Airtime Hobbled by Glitches
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Thinking Endlessly
Pretty much realized after 31 years of living that thinking (of the ruminating kind) is the most damaging state of being. To many this would seem common sense but to someone who spends a lot of time in his head, it doesn’t come easy.
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A Year in SF
Exactly one year ago yesterday, I moved to San Francisco to start a new life. After having spent more than half a decade in San Diego working a job that taught me well but was just too cushy at times, the transition couldn’t have come sooner. Truth be told, I had been wanting to move…
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Death Is Nothing At All
Death is Nothing at All by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which…
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9 years
9 years ago, on this day, I landed on the shores of California. I was talking to mom on the phone and of course, like every mother, she hadn’t forgotten the date and to commemorate this, casually said – “That sure has been a long time but you haven’t really come too far in life”.…
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Movies The French Make
I am going to make a bold claim. The French make a certain kind of a movie better than anyone else in the world. This kind of a movie is somewhat quiet in its treatment. This movie is rhythmic in flow, harmonious and melodious, like the language itself. It manages to be poignant and witty…
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