Life
Choose a career that is scalable. [An advice flow from Nasim Taleb's senior to him to Me]
Here is an example.
An artist with his/her new album, doesn’t have to sing those song for each set of different audience. The songs are recorded and made into an album and could be replicated zillion times for it to [...]
Exactly a year since I landed in the JFK international airport, NY for my study here in the USA [August 8, 2009].
And it seems like life has just started. Cheers to the exciting times ahead.
Cheers to Life!
Picture: Lonely bench by the lake side (Rabin Karki’s flickr photostream)
This was funny. I mean I looked an idiot at the end of this whole incident but it can happen to anyone.
I got a call (it was from “Anil” and I never looked at my phone while it was buzzing) while I was busy at work. I was about to complete the task and [...]
Today somebody disappointed me. But I let myself sulked and got miserable all day long. In fact I should have spent sometime assessing and reflecting that incident and move on.
Is it always so hard to move on?
Moral:
- Spend less time focusing on things you can’t control.
- Accept, don’t Expect.
Well it’s been about 2 years now not being a full time student (I hadn’t been part time too apart from reading random books and articles). This is the longest break from my study as far as I can remember. It seemed that I have been a student my entire life.
Actually I have planned for [...]
Today on my way to office I saw a dry rose on the road. It must have been put in between the book pages or similar things. Although a bit dry, it still looked good and all the petals intact. It was a Yellow Rose.
I can clearly see some text written all over the dry [...]
Age is a quality of the mind:
If you have left your dreams behind,
If hope is cold;
If you no longer look ahead,
If your ambitions fires are dead
Then you are old.
But if from life you take the best,
And if in life you keep the jest,
If love you hold;
No matter how the years go by,
No matter how the [...]
Continue reading about It is Never Too Late to be What You Might Have Been
It’s been about a year I read this book. Influential. I make little summary while reading and that helps to gain a quick idea about the pages read in the past. i did the same with this book. Today i found that page in one of my old files and i felt that this should [...]
Continue reading about The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - The Highlights
My Europe trip has left me wondering about how people think differently (or rather how we have to think) on things that effect ours lives daily. Back home we usually face a daunting task of getting petroleum and gas as we like. We need to be in queue for hours to get our bike refueled [...]
life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which i have got hold of for the moment, and i want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. — George Bernard Shaw
I believe that’s the way of living.
