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Thought Stream — week of 13 Jan 2020

Organizations do not suffer from a paucity of ideas, it is the paucity of execution levers that they suffer from.


Do pessimists make better coders?

https://abhyrama.com/2020/01/13/optimists-pessimists-and-better-coders/


Irrespective of what technique you use or how hard you try, you are not going to strike oil if you are digging in a place where there is no oil in the first place.


If you have always wanted to read but struggled with it, try reading a couple of pages with your morning coffee.

This is a great way to start and build a reading habit.


All part-time, armchair revolutionaries should familiarise themselves with the term “Useful Idiot.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot


Kids do not try to seek meaning or a point in the activities they indulge in. They immerse themselves in pointless pursuits, which brings them joy.

Adults do the opposite and complain of hollowness in life.


At the airport, a couple turned up at the wrong terminal. Wife berated the husband - I told you to check the terminal before.

When things go wrong, first instinct should be what can I do to fix this right now, not what should/could have been done to avoid this. Introspect later.


Much of life is wasted in pointless debates whose outcome does not matter either way just to satisfy our ego.


Data is useless without a plan of action.


Do not fix decisions, fix the process of arriving at decisions.


Do not pronounce judgment, ask questions.


We are reason seeking creatures is apparent when we deal with kids.

When an infant cries, everyone seeks a reason even though no one has a clue.

She is feeling hungry.

She is feeling cold.

She is feeling hot.