Net Galley Challenge
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Country Living Smart Solutions
white plates with dictionary-like drawings of butterflies and insects.
Friday, June 5, 2015
Wit
“Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good will.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lately I have noticed, that I am talking differently. I dont know my sentence till I say it. Long time ago, I would tell the sentence to myself, to make any correction (for example - not hurting others) but would say as is, not taking the advantage of the exercise.
1. You want to chose a carpet thats neither light nor too dark.
If its dark its depressing
If its light it will (I said this impromptu) get depressing with stains and all..
2. Daughter crying at summer camp at a different school. She went late. I asked her of anybody else was crying and then made a stupid crack about how if she had reached the school early, she would have been done crying along with the rest.
Earth as poetry
“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.”
― Henry Beston
Seafoam is when ocean has seizures.
What would your poem be with 'earth as poetry'?
― Henry Beston
Seafoam is when ocean has seizures.
What would your poem be with 'earth as poetry'?
Stunning photographs
Icebergs look like Giant Penguins
On the right side, can you see
the hind of a bear
brings to light
fifty other narrow egrets
shadows
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
What happened to my morning tea?
Why does coffee heated up in the microwave foam up when sugar is added
What is an Experiment?
It makes the effect
of the invisible atoms
visible
Invisible here is
to the human eye
California two-spot octopus
sees with its skin
Whats inaudible to us
is not to dogs
Animal dictionary
does not match ours
Is life's purpose a
unified dictionary?
In the dark
does it matter
what color the octopus is?
It all depends on the prey's
eyes
Can a blind person
now see with his skin
or a deaf person
through some other
mechanism than ears?
Biomimicry
until all living things
sense in the same way.
What is an Experiment?
It makes the effect
of the invisible atoms
visible
Invisible here is
to the human eye
California two-spot octopus
sees with its skin
Whats inaudible to us
is not to dogs
Animal dictionary
does not match ours
Is life's purpose a
unified dictionary?
In the dark
does it matter
what color the octopus is?
It all depends on the prey's
eyes
Can a blind person
now see with his skin
or a deaf person
through some other
mechanism than ears?
Biomimicry
until all living things
sense in the same way.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
As a foreign national, this book is a great way to learn how things come about in law in America. For example, the relay service adding to the phone surcharge bill, number of employees of a small business being changed to 50, so really small businesses dont go out of business trying to retrofit to ADA requirements.
I have lots of notes from the reading to refer to various acts example Decoder Circuitry Act.
The book's main premise is that its not just the activists with the demonstration that got about the ADA to happen, but the politicians and the staffers too had a great role. The book goes into great detail about people, their characteristics, background, their views towards disability, change of mind of those who were not ready for ADA, organizations that melded together for the final act.
Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue
I came across 'Brandeis Briefs' in 'Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights' by Lennard J. Davis. Before I found the time to refer to it, I opened 'Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue' by Melvin I. Urofsky who happens to have written a book on the very Louis D Brandeis who led to 'Brandeis Briefs' with his 'compilation of scientific information and social science than on legal citations'.
If you are into legal history, you will have a ball reading how the tug of war settled in many cases. The how could involve interesting Concurrences and or Dissent. Concurrence is when the end is same but the reasoning to get to the outcome is different. Dissent is being at odds with the outcome. The expectation of the Supreme Court is to be the final word on law but for democratic purposes and future thinking, dissents are encouraged.
The book goes into detail about many cases. I enjoyed not just the specifics of the cases but also the thought processes. How prevailing legal opinions change overtime, how nature got its legal rights, what charter means for property rights.
If you are into legal history, you will have a ball reading how the tug of war settled in many cases. The how could involve interesting Concurrences and or Dissent. Concurrence is when the end is same but the reasoning to get to the outcome is different. Dissent is being at odds with the outcome. The expectation of the Supreme Court is to be the final word on law but for democratic purposes and future thinking, dissents are encouraged.
The book goes into detail about many cases. I enjoyed not just the specifics of the cases but also the thought processes. How prevailing legal opinions change overtime, how nature got its legal rights, what charter means for property rights.
Performance Breakthrough: The FOUR Secrets of Passionate Organizations
'Performance Breakthrough: The FOUR Secrets of Passionate Organizations' by Mike Goldman is narrated as fiction but speaks to a company with disengaged employees trying to get back on its feet. The first time I read a book fictionalized in business is 'Revenue and the CMO: How Marketing Will Impact Revenue through Big Data and Social Selling' by Glenn Gow.
In the recent times, I have read the concepts of knowing your 'employee culture' in 'Under the Hood' by Stan Slap and playing ignorance in 'The Ignorant Maestro'. Knowing your employees and building trust among them is covered in detail in the former, empowering your employees and trusting them to do a good job, giving them the needed freedom is covered in the latter.
So the concepts have all been there. But this book acts as a quick reminder to get the train onto the track. The format has two layers of fiction. One is the personal life of the narrator which feeds directions into his office life.
In the recent times, I have read the concepts of knowing your 'employee culture' in 'Under the Hood' by Stan Slap and playing ignorance in 'The Ignorant Maestro'. Knowing your employees and building trust among them is covered in detail in the former, empowering your employees and trusting them to do a good job, giving them the needed freedom is covered in the latter.
So the concepts have all been there. But this book acts as a quick reminder to get the train onto the track. The format has two layers of fiction. One is the personal life of the narrator which feeds directions into his office life.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
This Digital Life
A mommy's nesting instinct
includes unsubscribing to
unnecessary emails
'you may like' of a e-newspaper
lists tragedy
includes unsubscribing to
unnecessary emails
'you may like' of a e-newspaper
lists tragedy
Summer, Manair Dam
The kids went
Swimming in the water
They came out
in a two person carriage
their hands held out taut
like marionettes with
invisible strings
Dry drowning every parent needs know
Secondary drowning
Biology of drowning
Breath holding in the pool can spark sudden blackouts and death
Swimming in the water
They came out
in a two person carriage
their hands held out taut
like marionettes with
invisible strings
Dry drowning every parent needs know
Secondary drowning
Biology of drowning
Breath holding in the pool can spark sudden blackouts and death
Monday, May 25, 2015
Restricted areas accessibility
"Under this law, the space shuttle would have had to be accessible " - James Weisman
So is the space shuttle accessible?
Scoping requirements
So is the space shuttle accessible?
Scoping requirements
Sunday, May 24, 2015
First time
you heard a phrase
When you hear it again
you recall that first time
you heard the phrase
When you hear it again
you recall that first time
you heard the phrase
Perspective
Yesterday, one of the apartment building looked as a bigger, whole pattern. Like the white with red roof buildings of Europe. Since then its a beautiful walk toward that side.
Ekphrasis
Rattle ekphrasis
"You don't just have to open the door; you have to rebuild the door" - Justin Dart
The door was never there
like you were never there
until the woods grew
and sustained life
that flew
that gnawed
that sawed
and built a door
to the woods
that vanished life
of the last feather
jaw
man.
"You don't just have to open the door; you have to rebuild the door" - Justin Dart
The door was never there
like you were never there
until the woods grew
and sustained life
that flew
that gnawed
that sawed
and built a door
to the woods
that vanished life
of the last feather
jaw
man.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Socrates insisted that we define our terms before using them - Michael R Burch
The rhymes and rhythms are my wet paint - John Whitworth
1. Define a term.
2. "Where the house is cold.." - The Examiners, John Whitworth. Reminded me of Tagore's poem Where the mind is without fear. What is your imaginary 'Where'?
3. Was Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle after Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
1. Define a term.
2. "Where the house is cold.." - The Examiners, John Whitworth. Reminded me of Tagore's poem Where the mind is without fear. What is your imaginary 'Where'?
3. Was Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle after Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
Friday, May 22, 2015
Measure for Measure
Effort at speech
Dusk July
Vermeer at the Frick
For Once, Then, something - those solitary moments
The reemergence of the noose
Lucid waking
Thanks to Measure for Measure, I found my favourite meter to be Sapphics, Alcaics, Hendecasyllabics, Lesser Ionics which I have never heard of before. I mostly enjoy free verse. I tried learning how to write formal poetry using "The ode Less travelled: Unlocking the Poet within" by Stephen Fry. As a creative writing exercise, it was great but now I realise that liking formal poetry is about knowing the meter style that appeals to your inner formalist.
Dusk July
Vermeer at the Frick
For Once, Then, something - those solitary moments
The reemergence of the noose
Lucid waking
Thanks to Measure for Measure, I found my favourite meter to be Sapphics, Alcaics, Hendecasyllabics, Lesser Ionics which I have never heard of before. I mostly enjoy free verse. I tried learning how to write formal poetry using "The ode Less travelled: Unlocking the Poet within" by Stephen Fry. As a creative writing exercise, it was great but now I realise that liking formal poetry is about knowing the meter style that appeals to your inner formalist.
Monday, May 18, 2015
List Articles
One advantage of coming up with list articles is that you can expand each of the point in the list into another article with its own list.
1. Look at Jeff Haden do the same with regret and time in Huge risks everyone needs take atleast once and 10 painless ways to free up big chunks of time.
1. Look at Jeff Haden do the same with regret and time in Huge risks everyone needs take atleast once and 10 painless ways to free up big chunks of time.
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