Net Galley Challenge
Saturday, May 3, 2025
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Sunday, April 27, 2025
Turkish language
How does fascination with a language start? uzak sehir
Some words sound similar to the language you know or you are able to isolate some words.
This is beautiful like a poem.
Bu bir şiir gibi güzel.
これは詩のように美しい.
Kore wa uta no yō ni utsukushī
göreceğiz - we will see
Confines of a poem
Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Who sheared the fog from the mountain?
While reading the poetry book, I was reminded of music from 25 years ago. kismat se tum hamko mile ho
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Idioms
Money grows on the tree of persistence
I came across this Japanese proverb. I wanted to see it in Japanese and was surprised at the conciseness of the characters.
There comes a time when you have to make your language learning interactive.
English Idioms Target 1000 5th Edition has English idioms usage in Japanese. preview
英熟語ターゲット1000 5訂版 book
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Retirement
take-this-simple-step-runup-retirement
after paying off mortgage - home insurance and property tax
Abstract thinking
diffuse benefits and concentrated costs
how to make economic development more inclusive
housing crisis - not wealth building for all - if leverage used as tool
first dollars or first rupees towards education - Indra Nooyi
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Everyday Japanese in 10 Carefully Structured Lessons
Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Everyday Japanese in 10 Carefully Structured Lessons (Audio Recordings Included)
Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure
Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure
Tadoku online free reading Japanese
I learned about ekiben today. Stories read
Stories recommended
衣食住 = いしょくじゅう is roti, kapda, makaan -- tortilla, clothes and house
A 5 language dictionary
Firefly 5 Language Visual Dictionary: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Rookie mistake
It might seem like a rookie mistake, when you see an executive, who has been a CFO earlier to order more supplies, when there is lot of inventory. With little knowledge thats a no-no but remember any midpoint looks the same going up or going down.
There must be the behavior component or the ostrich burying its head in the sand, to not see whats going on or assume that the burning platform can still be saved. The speed at which things change or the interconnectedness of things (some Unintended consequences), that have been not considered might not leave much leeway.
"Which means you’ve got to anticipate what’s going to happen based on all the trends. You’ve got to look at the trends constantly, you know, read lots of signals." - Indra Nooyi.
Have a future back strategy and anticipate what going wrong might look like and steer ship.
IRA to employer sponsored 401k, IRA to HSA
and Direct Indexing - tax flexibility
One tiem transfer of IRA to HSA.