Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Books by weight
In Driving hungry, the author refers to Antiquariat in Berlin where used books are sold by weight. Well, in India too when you are selling away used books to a recyclist, you do that.
In rajasthan, my father and I were shocked to learn that bananas were sold not by the dozen but by weight.
In rajasthan, my father and I were shocked to learn that bananas were sold not by the dozen but by weight.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Relax-a-bye Baby: A bedtime guide to help your little one relax and sleep tight
'Relax-a-bye Baby: A bedtime guide to help your little one relax and sleep tight' written by Mimi summers and illustrated by Dana Theveneau uses 'body scan' technique to help the baby go to sleep, with steps that make him/her appreciate and thank the body. The lyrics rhyme. The illustrations have a lot of colour with very few lines and objects befitting the winding down for a good night sleep. Since the book is not just read-aloud but act along, but like the shavasana in yoga, it is an easy, calming read. The book is too long, so you shouldnt need to read all of it. With time, one it becomes a practice, it will be easier to fall asleep, just like meditation gets easier with practice.
The body scan technique can be used even while bathing, so kids will learn naming the body parts and become familiar with the getting to bed routine.
The body scan technique can be used even while bathing, so kids will learn naming the body parts and become familiar with the getting to bed routine.
Monday, June 1, 2015
The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work
"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them." - Andy Grove.
In "The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work" by John Danner and Mark Coopersmith, you get to see what the crises can be and how your company size will change your reaction to it, what you can learn from it and how you can remember that to learn from failure as an individual and team.
With Edison and WD-40, we have learnt how taking more risks, we increase our chance of success. But to keep on going ahead like King Bruce, we have to know that we are not going to build that web the first time, learn and improvise from each attempt.
The Failure Value Cycle is about how to mine gold from your crash and burns. With its 7 step process, you create an environment where you accept the ubiquity of failure in a venture, prepare for it, be on the lookout for it, respond, avert and get back on track.
The authors have referred to the latest security debacles of great companies. After each chapter, there is a summary of what are the keypoints. There are questionnaires about how failure is treated in our organisation. There is an encouragement to show off not just your laurels but your albatrosses too.
The best I like are the 3 Rules of learning - from others, by play and thinking and by doing, 'What has to be true' exercise.
You are your worst competitor
In "The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work" by John Danner and Mark Coopersmith, you get to see what the crises can be and how your company size will change your reaction to it, what you can learn from it and how you can remember that to learn from failure as an individual and team.
With Edison and WD-40, we have learnt how taking more risks, we increase our chance of success. But to keep on going ahead like King Bruce, we have to know that we are not going to build that web the first time, learn and improvise from each attempt.
The Failure Value Cycle is about how to mine gold from your crash and burns. With its 7 step process, you create an environment where you accept the ubiquity of failure in a venture, prepare for it, be on the lookout for it, respond, avert and get back on track.
The authors have referred to the latest security debacles of great companies. After each chapter, there is a summary of what are the keypoints. There are questionnaires about how failure is treated in our organisation. There is an encouragement to show off not just your laurels but your albatrosses too.
The best I like are the 3 Rules of learning - from others, by play and thinking and by doing, 'What has to be true' exercise.
You are your worst competitor
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Muddy rice and black sake
On reading following Bashos lines
I sit facing muddy sake
and black rice
I thought of the images of Muddy rice and black sake
"Avoid
Adjectives of scale,
, you will love the world more and desire it less.” - Rober Hass paraphrasing Basho.
I sit facing muddy sake
and black rice
I thought of the images of Muddy rice and black sake
"Avoid
Adjectives of scale,
, you will love the world more and desire it less.” - Rober Hass paraphrasing Basho.
Creativity
is like sugarcane
get the most out of it
by optimally recycling
it through the machine
use it like
an essential oil
a drop is enough
to get you
started
Dip in that inkwell
often but scantily
I started with thoughts become things rock inspiration with words become things in mind, but when I started writing it out, it took its own direction and became two things.
get the most out of it
by optimally recycling
it through the machine
use it like
an essential oil
a drop is enough
to get you
started
Dip in that inkwell
often but scantily
I started with thoughts become things rock inspiration with words become things in mind, but when I started writing it out, it took its own direction and became two things.
Leverage
1. employing experts. Steve jobs about hiring smart people
2. Integration instead of reinventing the wheel.
2. Integration instead of reinventing the wheel.
Starting with a word
solopreneur to slopreneur
entrepreneur to rentrepreneur
This is how
words can become things
By naming it
you can make it
At a Home Sales Office
A broken
message rock
"Thoug hts
becom e
Thin gs"
A child had chucked it
to the ground
not sure if
with thought
to break it
to see if it would break
to see if it would not break
to see if it will bounce like a ball
Rocks Message
I break
message rock
"Thoug hts
becom e
Thin gs"
A child had chucked it
to the ground
not sure if
with thought
to break it
to see if it would break
to see if it would not break
to see if it will bounce like a ball
Rocks Message
I break
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