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Continue Reading >Tag Archives: Make Your Life Better
April 09, 2012
Three Keys To Being An Optimist – Part 1
April 06, 2012
Becoming Personally Energy Efficient
September 30, 2011
The Philosophy of Leadership
January 03, 2011
Be it resolved..
A recent study I saw compared the difference between people who had set goals for themselves and told someone else and a group of folks who set goals for themselves and did not tell anyone. Now, conventional wisdom would tell us that by telling someone that we are committed to a goal, we should have the kind of motivation that would help us through the task. But the researchers found that those people who did not tell anyone about their...
Continue Reading >November 16, 2010
Routines that Automate
What make computers powerful and ubiquitous is their ability to automate easy (and eventually complex) tasks. When I was watching Apollo 13 the other night, I saw the NASA engineers checking the calculations of Astronaut Jim Lovell using their slide rules. Slide rules and other such devices are mechanical in nature but soon calculators and now our smart phones easily automate calculations as simple as addition or as complex as amortization tables. What would happen if we began to apply...
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