Appsumo Book Raffle
Appsumo is giving away the top 40 books for entrepreneurs.. sounds interesting. Check it out:
Happy birthday Ma!
We’ll have a proper celebration when I get back : )
Happy bloggers
I like reading happy bloggers. They sound.. happy : D
Self-awareness Development
Beginner – take pix with crappy phone camera, upload all
Intermediate – take pix with point and shoot, choose good pix, upload
Advanced – take pix with DSLR, choose good pix, untag bad pix, upload
Professional – take pix with DSLR at exotic locations, choose good pix, photoshop good pix, hack everyone else’s computer to delete bad pix, upload
New Theme
Switching over to the lighter side of life.
But everything is relative.
Things are only as bright as compared to the darkness that preceded them.
Cure for writer’s block
I found it.
Lack of sobriety. Aka. Crown Royal.
Wrote alot but never uploaded for fear of reprisal of some sort. I’ll try to compensate for all said cowardice in this post. Not that I will be able to. But it’s the thought that counts, correct?
No. LOL.
Random note: Seagull theory – one who flies in, shits, and leaves. (used to describe visits from corporate)
Well so much for making up for all things unsaid.
Baby steps!
Strong winds
Haven’t updated in forever.
So – 24 years old now – 2 complete turns round the zodiac. What’s changed? Everything, and nothing.
More and more people leaving USA for home. More plans being made, more plans being unmade.
Next year will be interesting.
Do what you can
If you have a place to sleep every night, food to eat, water to drink, and are able to read this, your life is in much better shape than many people in Japan right now.
I gave $109.99 via iTunes to the American Red Cross for Japan Relief efforts.
Do what you can.
22 Insightful Tips From Leaders in Tech
http://nerdbusiness.com/blog/22-insightful-tips-leaders-in-tech
Carry on
Saw many friends back home. Very happy; most have moved on, making visible progress, successfully navigating this choppy sea of transition.
Makes me wanna come back. Until I started thinking.
It’s nice to come back to all this. Will it be as nice living here permanently? Level playing ground? A little intimidating.. feel like a foreigner in my own country now.
Got a new plan, though. The most valuable thing others can do for you is to give you valuable input in determining your future direction. This I’ve been lucky to always have – thank you all.
To those giving up dreams of going overseas because “I want to stay near parents”, please reconsider. Not because I want you to be away from your parents, but because the timing is such that they don’t literally need you just yet. Not now, while they’re still fully capable and heck, may even still be supporting you. Now is the time to get out while you can. Later on is the time to come back.
Time to redefine relationships. Take into account what is and what isn’t. In a world where so much can go wrong over so little, it’s always easier to just not get involved. But how much can you stay away? Does nothing matter to you at all? Calm down. It’ll smooth itself out eventually.
Another level
When you reach it, you cannot unreach it.
Level Up
Bad throat, cough, flu while working outside in subzero temps.
When you are 50% of on-site management, there are no days off.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Sink or swim.
The Rose
Masochism
–noun
- Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- gratification gained from pain, deprivation, degradation,etc. inflicted or imposed on oneself,
either as a result of one’s own actions or the actions of others, esp. the tendency to seek this form of gratification. - the act of turning one’s destructive tendencies inward or upon oneself.
- the tendency to find pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness,etc.
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It’s an exquisite pain to run through the thorny rose garden to get to the rose.
But what do you do when you get there?
You stand, you watch, you look, you see, you hear, you listen, you admire, you hope.
Because it’s all you can do.
Because the pumping adrenaline is counteracting the blood loss from thorn wounds. Because the joy of being near is counteracting the pain of realizing that the rose, with or without you, would be just as sweet. Because the joy of temporary permanence is counteracting the pain of permanent temporariness. Because you don’t know whether it’s the rose that makes you happy or the painful journey to get to it that does. Because you know that taking the rose away from the rose garden will cause it to start withering away to nothing. Because you know that leaving the rose where it is will cause yourself to start withering away to nothing. Because you know that doing nothing might cause everything, while doing everything might cause nothing. Because you know that you don’t know anything.
It’s one thing to watch another drift away into the wind, but another to watch yourself – and feel helpless about your inability to execute any corrective measures. And like it.
All I want for Christmas is..
..that device that tells me what I want for Christmas.
Catch me if you can
..pretty please?
Hello Life
Made a few big decisions lately.
No more living in fear.
No more wondering why.
No more holding on to things that should be let go.
No more living in the past.
Hello future.
Hello new things.
Hello wondering why not.
Hello living without fear.
WASSUP WASSUP
First all-nighter in a while, fueled by Red Bull.
Really really better get that project awrrr.
Need better headphones.
At the rate I’m accumulating flight miles, Delta is going to be giving me new Klipsch S4′s.
Ohohoho.
