"Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones" - Ralph Keyes in "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When" I came across this line in the context of a famous quote: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” which is commonly attributed to Aristotle.... Continue Reading →
One of my goals in life is to cross and maintain FIDE rating of 2100. Hopefully reach 2000 rating by 2022. Well, it's more of a dream and not a goal yet; because I don't have a plan to achieve it. "Dream is nothing but a goal without deadline or a plan." However, I am... Continue Reading →
Dharmendra is one of the most handsome and macho personalities of Hindi film industry. Born on 8th December 1935, he recently turned 83! As a child, when I watched two of his movies with Amitabh - Sholay and Chupke Chupke - I liked him more than Amitabh! He is not a great actor but very... Continue Reading →
I saw an interesting post on Twitter and it made me think about few things. I also shared this with 2-3 people and got their views. Most of us think that we are forced to run the rat race because we have some personal goals to achieve - education, home, a decent lifestyle, for health... Continue Reading →
We often talk about work-life balance as a simple balance between the job/profession and life...like the one depicted on left. In reality, it's a complex balance of multiple small balances placed over each other, as shown on the right hand side. And as you can see, even a small feather or leaf (i.e. any trivial... Continue Reading →
This is amazing!
Just came across a spectacular example of failure (?) of automation/artificial intelligence! These are some of the classic Hindi movie songs. The word Chhod (छोड - meaning Leave) has been masked blindly because it sounds like or is close to a cuss word. I thought it was only the text; but the word is beeped... Continue Reading →
I saw on Twitter this amazing color pencil drawing by a young Marathi artist called Shashikant Dhotre! Here is his website: https://shashikantdhotre.com/ Really awesome!
Today is 26/11. Tenth anniversary of the horrible 2008 Mumbai attacks in which a 10 terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. More than 170 people died and several got injured. It was the worst terrorist attack... Continue Reading →
Saw this interesting message on Twitter. Forgot to note the person who posted it and now I cannot find him. Will update once I find. --------------------------------------------------- Attached list has names arranged in descending order of best CAGR returns in recorded investing history. Warren Buffet sits somewhere in middle. So why is he the most successful... Continue Reading →
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