The Warming Drawer

Yesterday, I thought of walking to the grocery store and buying a cake. Instead in the last minute, I thought why not make the fudge? While chosing the pan for it, my not so deft hands moved two pizza sheets under the 'warming drawer' that is under the oven.

Here's What That Drawer Underneath Your Oven Is Actually For
Hint: It's not for storing baking sheets.https://t.co/p7bn37UdTE

— livecitizen (@livecitizen1) April 18, 2019

Now thats not even the fun fact. even more fun fact is -
I thought that for eternity the pizza platters will langush in the oven basement for years to come. Just like two pretty bookmarks that have been stuck in the office cube paraphernalia for more than a decade. Wonder when their day will come.

At first, I tried to engineer my hand into the cave to get it out. I remember it working another time. At one point, a thought ran through my head, that my hand might get stuck there. On a lark I tried to pull it out. And there it was, I got a peek of the florr there too after retrieving the pizza sheets.

If you didnt know, the Warming Drawer, thinks and moves out of the box.

For a person whose writing is more visual than any other sense, the smell of the brownie moved me across rooms.

Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change 

The value of alternative thinking

From I, T to X

Dissecting the board meetigns prior to the fall, Siilasmaa wonders  'How do you prevent the agenda from being a mile wide and an inch deep?' This brought me to imagining the T as broad T (too much breadth reduces depth) or tall T ( and too much depth narrows your area). Doing an MBA or changing an industry can move you from (I=tall T) to normal T.

Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement

Even if you have not read Janet Evanovich, you will recognise the name from any book displays on the library portals and other places you take a book peek at.

Do you push for first chair?

Draw 200 Animals: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Horses, Cats, Dogs, Birds, Fish, and Many More Creatures 

Can't wait to start drawing from this book.

G-Mac: Essence of a Wave

I have not heard of Garrett McNamara before and thought G-Mac is some scientific term like the g used for gravity.

This video shows Garrett at a personal level of who he is, how he got started, what keeps him going. I love his selfless attitude of helping his friends to fulfill their dreams of big waves.

I found it fascinating that while in Satori, some surfers mentioned anxiety and fear, Mcnamara doesn’t it feel it when he is on the big waves but he does when he is taking along someone. You even hear from a friend he nudged to go for the big waves.

Garett McNamara says with ideal conditions, no wave is too big for man. In an unusual disastrous time, Alaska has seen a 1700ft wave.

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I have never heard of the word Satori, so was curious about it.

If you have wondered why people surf or how they feel after their bout in the ocean..

The first ten minutes are all water, white, foam, ocean and great music.

Each time the word ‘Dungeons’ is announced, you can feel a great past and mystery that needs to be known.

I found it surprising that some surfers have an anxiety pitching their fitness against the wave

I liked one surfer’s approach of learning jujitsu so he will get prepared to face the heavy weight of his opponent on him as that of the tons of water in a wave.

Other surfers see it as a less distracted space than land where there’s just the board and you and you see the beauty of the breath and live in the moment. That must be the feeling of ‘satori’ where you are awake to the energy of the wave and bring a piece of that back to the land.

You see the possibilities of tow-in surfing that has changed the definition of big wave from 20 ft to 100 ft.

Garett McNamara says with ideal conditions, no wave is too big for man. In an unusual disastrous time, Alaska has seen a 1700ft wave.

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life

What are your assisst statistics?

Momentous - The Ario Dream

The Ario Dream

When one of the cavers came back to meet his friends, my child exclaimed – oh its a team. Upon further study, I understood why caving is done in teams. It is a dangerous activity, hence just like mountaineering where few reach the summit while the rest of the team waits at the base camp, caving too is a staged attempt.

When they showed how it is hard to do caving during the day because of the too bright light, it made sense to do caving with the headlight in the dark.

I liked the team’s focus on the objective of connecting the various caves instead of exploring the caves deeply. Something is to be said for the first human steps laid on a land.

They move so lithely, like fish in coral reef.

Very small details like the clipped edge of a small label so the cavers can know which direction to trace back shows you how prepared they have to be.

Have not heard of a rebreather before.

It is amazing to flash your light on the twine and then at some point find the wound twine and be the person to roll it further to make way for the next diver.

57 years in the making!!

Understanding Others

Values and the transparency with which they are presented affect leadership-followership relation. 'Values Hierarchy' implies that two people with same values might still not agree as they place different importance to those same values.

Savvy about your surroundings - Pratima Gluckman

International Finance 

Best International Finance courses 2019

Medical Medium Celery Juice: The Most Powerful Medicine of Our Time Healing Millions Worldwide

Why are the people all over the world drinking celery juice?

Celery cost is rising in Australia and LA is running out of it.

How to increase consumer's trust of your product?

Safe A.I.: A blueprint for mid-market executives to harness the benefits of AI without the unintended consequences

You might have noticed Satya Nadella's with top CEOs regarding digital technology and trust. When it comes to cars, Dr. Zetsche, made a poignant point about how custoemrs alreayd trust their cars with safety.

One way to improve your customers trust is to inform the customers about the new technology.

What Does It Mean to Certify an #AI Product as Safe? https://t.co/U632LRaeVY

— David Talby (@davidtalby) March 30, 2019

Another is to have certifications

Transparency is another way

New KPIs

ROX: How to get started with the new experience metric
What is the roi of a brand experience

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries H

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries 

Juane Trippe for aviation, Edward Land for Polaroid - both did research for their projects using New York public Library. 

Loonshots deals with 'The Needham' question. Why did the renaissance happen in England and not elsewhere, even though there was similar talent in other parts of the world.
If you have done phase theory of things, then you'll find the transition easier to understand from underdogs to champions.
What does it take for an idea to be nurtured - the funding, but what are the investors most likely to go after. s-type and p-type loonshots. 
Bahcall has a great way of making scientific things easier to undersand for the comon man - polaroid.
There are comparisions in many industries - Airline industry - American Airlines vs PanAm, what was the difference in their approach? How the movie industry and the science-pharma split when they got big. The rift between production and disruption. How many slip out in The scale Chasm.
I am very impressed with the huge section of Appendix.

The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You: Command an Audience and Sell Your Way to Success

Are you a Guernsey or a Brahman when met with adversity, asks Shane Parrish. Lydia Fenet with her persistence stories shows she is a Brahman.

Lydia shares so many stories how she got into an internship which was already full,  let a sick day bring the best out of her at eliciting her natural style, adding details about owner to make an auction engaging, engaging with the audience itself, especially at the paddle auction uniting them for the cuase, even though the giving is individual, where she started the paddle auction with a higher goal than asked by the charity. Always pushing boundaries.

Why intern?
Your first networking opportunity right there.
The secrets of successful female networkers

Nanaimo Bar

Looking back to childhood, was the appeal for sweets apart from the sugar high, the beautiful, perfect geometric edges?

Tracy Anderson

Tracy Anderson's workout is something that you will have to do slow as, these movements might be all new. Tracy's method is all about "strengthening the small, accessory muscles".

Bill Marriott: Success Is Never Final--his Life and the Decisions That Built a Hotel Empire

When great grand parent of Mariott was out of money on the ship, she worked on the ship to earn her meals. This eking out made an impression on her family.
Buffalo chips were used for fuel by pioneers.

How to engage your customers?

When Willard found that his customers at root beer stand wanted to know about Lucky Lindy, he brought a counter top radio so they could stay engaged with the news they were interested in.

Its amazing how Bill knew what should happen next - starting off with the root beer stand, after looking at lemonade sales , countertop radio at the root beer stand so his customers can engage with Lucky Lindy news, noticing that airline travelers liked to carry his food and then convincing the airlines to buy his food. He knew how to align his dominoes.

Two buckets for mopping - one for clean water and the other for dirty water.

Christa DiPaolo exercises

When I started boxing workout, it felt like a casual thing as the ladies in the video or talking. I didnt pick it in this video, but the 1lb exercises are cute.
In this cardio boxing workout, Christa makes you realise that when you have to focus on what move to do next, you lose track of the time.
I added a 3lb weight each side, to the Kenpo Cardio. Within 10 min into the workout, I realised how tired I got. Those weights work.
While I dont have 1 lb at home, I recalled a 2.5 pound purple dumbbells from a zumba workout. Lets see how that goes.
Christa is a big fan of  Reaction drills. You will love them too.
The moody girl's guide to getting fit
Tracy Anderson exercises.
The boxing circuit thatll get you a knockout body like J Los
More Christa

Moonlight Sonata

Moonlight Sonata

What can you do in Moonlight?

You can do kick-boxing in the garden with Christa Dipaolo, With moon and stars as the witness, you can exercise your body and soul.

It is so relaxing to hear the birds in the garden. I dont want to go inside. The red of the siskin throat, like the sunset.

Before you can process

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low-skilled work?pic.twitter.com/APTjQLAYSn

— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) March 16, 2019

What is happening

an orange is cut in half
a nail is wedged in
synchronously by 4 people
An onionis chopped
like a snowfall
A watermelon gets a
methodical clean shave
mail gets into every box
dishes align into the
dish dryer rack
A falafel hops into a
frog mouthed pita
pizzas get sliced
windows get wiped
as clockwork
bills get counted
(its not that everyone
can do it)

Sandcastles with feet

How do you make sadcastles with your feet?

Put one foot forward, surround it with mud, pack it, press it, shape it and slowly pull your leg out just like this machine with rollers, when the arch is getting done.

Road Repair patches

HO Rocky's Road Repair Woodland Scenics

Whenever I see patches on the road, I get happy and grateful at the same time that someone cares about the maintenance of the road.

A stitch in time saves nine

Today my kid was so excited to share that she saw community workers digging the road. Her father corrected her that they were laying the road.

We wince when we ride on broken roads but the patched roads always light me up as much or more.

Truncated Square Pyramid

Archimedes, the Volumes of Some Truncated Figures and The Bruskiewich Symmetrised Equation (The New Mathematics for the Millions Book 39)

Truncated Square Pyramid

The pyramid problem