February 2012
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Tiny Buddha: Your task is not to seek l ... →
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...”
– Carl Sagan (via nitors)
Forbes Goes to the Dark Side: Uses Artificial... →
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Forbes magazine has gone to the dark side. It has joined more than 30 corporations which are dumping human writers in favor of the software called Narrative Science. Narrative Science generates news stories without any human…
Narrative Science - the artificial intelligence of journalism.
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Ignoring 500 Billion Galaxies: Mathematics vs... →
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What Bayesian reasoning overlooks, of course, is the inconvenient fact that there are some one trillion galaxies in the known universe and some 50 billion planets estimated to exist in the Milky Way alone and some 500,000,000 predict…
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“People spend more time devising ways to feel better about themselves rather than...”
– Big Daddy Bui
Validation, and not the parking ticket variety
Seeking validation from others is useless if they’re seeking the same thing from you. This makes for the most unfulfilling relationship. Two self-validated people make the best relationship.
Self-validated people are confident, not arrogant; poetic, not sarcastic; respectful, not demeaning; generous, not selfish; wise, not pedantic; flexible, not dogmatic; skeptical, not judgmental; and...
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“If you learn to contain the revelry of success, you’ll discover that the...”
– Big Daddy Bui
These days, I try not to be
ego-driven when interacting with others. I let my life experience mingle with theirs through conversation, and analyze the quality of the mixture. If it’s a good mix I’m happy.
With myself, alone in the dark or in cyberspace, I’m extremely ego-driven. Because the only other person on the other side of the discussion, as far as I’m concerned, is me.
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“Agreeable only gets you so far; opinionated carries you the rest of the way. Oh,...”
– Big Daddy Bui
Maturation life cycle
Stage #1 (teens and twenties): live the edgy lifestyle with friends that you declare are “homies for life”. Thieving & thuggery.
Stage #2 (thirties): stay a million miles away from people that drag you down.
Stage #3 (forties): realize that old friends are valuable and hard to find. Reconcile differences, if that’s possible, and invite them back into your life, having the...
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society (via coeurdelune)
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Self-worth
I spent the first part of my personal and professional life fighting a long uphill battle proving myself to others. That part’s done, at least on the personal side. The professional side is still too riddled with landmines for me to be headstrong. I want to spend the remainder of my life, however short that might be, letting people prove themselves to me. I spent the last two years getting a...
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If a person
always turns the topic of conversation to himself and never asks about details of your life; if he expects birthday gifts and never gives; if you visit him in the hospital and he only sends a cursory “get well” for you; if he expects you to help him move and he doesn’t offer in return…
He is operating in pure selfishness; and that’s okay. Just know that you are...
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“Knowledge is not trivia—little factoids that you regurgitate to impress....”
– Big Daddy Bui
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Sitting in an Empty Room, Alone →
A practical exercise on your road to Zen habits.
Science decodes 'internal voices' →
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Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of words into actual words, in a breakthrough that could benefit comatose and locked-in patients.
January 2012
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Standards (or Expectations)
If you’re fun, vapid and have low standards, people will want to party with you. But they won’t respect you.
If you have inconsistent, hypocritical or self-centered standards, people will be repulsed by you.
If you have consistently high standards people will be slightly afraid of you, but they will respect you. They might even be drawn toward you. What’s consistent? Years at...