delegation of thought
When Descartes said “I think, therefore I am”, I wonder if he could extend it to AI saying “it thinks, therefore it is” 😉
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financial freedom
Its a fairly well known idea nowadays that time is becoming increasingly more valuable than money, and what we really need is more time for ourselves.
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Emperor Ashoka | ಅಶೋಕ ಮಹಾರಾಜ
Came across various versions of the same story. As I couldn’t find a succinct version, I consolidated yet another one myself from different sources on the web to match the one I’d heard originally long ago (can’t remember where).
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a kid on a slide
A small child was climbing up a slide in a playground today. He was trying hard clambering up the ladder – almost fell down at one time but was caught by his alert father – and finally reached the top. It was a small slide but I suppose it felt gigantic to him. And what…
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real faith | ನಿಜವಾದ ನಂಬಿಕೆ
Build up your faith so that in times you will not be shaken This was a quote from a friend, and it was nice to read it – but in my opinion, faith “gets built” up, one cannot actively build it. If one actively tries to build it, it may end up becoming disillusionment.
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currency comparison
My friend was asking me the other day – how can I possibly take off paid leave and go out somewhere every now and then.
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[flashback] considering a shortcut
flashback = old memory. In this case, something that happened over twelve years ago (when I was a teenager)… and nothing to do with me today! If you read this article, please read it completely – do not jump to any conclusions and abandon it midway!! 🙂 —— Sitting in stillness may at times bring…
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I am a software engineer
This is how he’d introduced himself to Kichu and everyone else in the room in 1998 – and to anyone and everyone he’d ever met since he’d started working a year ago. And Kichu had remarked “No you are not.
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fearlessness
A friend emailed me this this morning and is probably one of the best quotes I’ve come across: Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important than fear Reminded me of a random statement I came across in a book
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timely link
Learnt a lot about time management in Hyderabad (straightaway through the experience, there was no time to think about it!) I surprised myself by being a radically different fellow – a meticulous principled person completing each and every task perfectly and in time, handling random interruptions and yet addressing each of them completely and thoroughly!…