dnrc on blogging…
Scott Adams comes down pretty hard on blogging in his latest DNRC newsletter… but then goes on to start a blog of his own 😉 (If you’ve been a Dilbert fan for years like me, you might consider subscribing to the newletter)
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quote: benefits of philosophy
A philosopher knows exactly what to do in any situation, until it happens to him. I guess this rather stunning quote conveys more or less the same point as this story from the Mahabharata 🙂
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life's maxim upgraded | ಜೀವನದ ತತà³à²µ
When someone is reading a book, I’ve this habit of borrowing for a second and flipping through it and returning it. In one such instance a few years ago, I’d come across a “serene prayer” of three lines. I was so impressed that I later on googled for the exact words and put them down…
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creative way of representing creativity
There are a lot of nice things out here on this site which I get regularly from their mailing list. But this particular one on creativity really got to me. (It includes music as well).
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working children | ಕೆಲಸಮಾಡà³à²µ ಮಕà³à²•à²³à³
Need some odd jobs done at home? Simple, just go to some rural area. There are plenty of kids out there, pick one of them.
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been there done that | ಯೆಲà³à²²à²¾ ಮಾಡಿ ಬಿಟà³à²Ÿà²¿à²°à³‹à²¦à³
This is something some people seem to be prone to saying a lot of the time. When somebody’s enthusiastic about something, they may comment smugly along the lines of “you’re seeing these things only now, I’ve done all that years ago…” or “I know everything that’s to be known about it” or “ok good you…
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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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short story from the Mahabharata
updated 26 Sep, 05 Though I’d read the Mahabharata in my childhood days – all abridged versions, though from multiple sources , I heard a story today in a seminar in IISc that I had never heard before… (What’s in italics here is merely a verbatim repetition to the best of my memory…)
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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).