To my friend

by | Oct 29, 2013 | Post

I lost a friend. One day she was clicking the Like button on my Facebook post and adding the hahahahahahaha laugh that brought me back her all-encompassing laugh that covered the entire universe. Sometimes letters convey messages much stronger than our real presence:...

Removing the slash from Work/Life

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Post

When a task/work that supposedly consumes a large amount of time appears, my mind enters the panic mode. I need to secure time! When and where? Can I move this and that to another time? If that task takes approximately 12 hours to complete, I try to find a whole day...

The system is a gigantic amplifier

by | Oct 16, 2013 | Post

I was discussing with my friends over our grand vision: how to make this world a better way. Playing God is always one of the most entertaining funs for man-children. For a gigantic toddler in a sandbox or a nerdy teenager with SimCity, the ultimate pleasure is to...

Invest in nobody’s future

by | Oct 14, 2013 | Post

Paul Graham is a guru of tech investment nowadays, but several years back he was mostly known as the geek who gets it all—money, fame, good-looking, and wisdom. On his recent (a few years back) post, he talks about how we lose money. So I started to pay attention to...

Meet the slow death in your comfort zone

by | Oct 12, 2013 | Post

I stumbled onto the speech by Gregory Jaczko, the former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Watch from 50:00 and on for Jaczko’s speech) He talks about the recent visit he made to Japan…the children still playing around...

Answer goes, question remains

by | Oct 9, 2013 | Post

During the comment conversation for the Question & Answer post, my friend and I realized what a question and an answer mean to us: anchors to our present and future. For him, it is the answer that anchors us to the present moment, while the question drags us into...