In a nutshell: The Japanese people’s inability to deal with confrontation leads to slow progress. In Japanese culture, confronting someone is the worst thing you can do. So much so, if something will involve confrontation in the future, they try any method possible to avoid it, even if it damages the reputation and profitability of …
All these efforts to make more efficient workers, all these effort to make yourself more efficient at work. The problem is, sometimes we don’t think about why we are doing what we are doing, and we just do it for the sake of doing it. What this eventually means, is that you get more efficient …
Stolen directly from Seth Godin’s most recent podcast, cohesion and commerce. I’ve been writing a hell of a lot of anecdotes on this blog, this might even be one of them, but I need to focus more on the story. Anecdotes are only really interesting to the writer, but can be ok if they connect …
No excuses. When you have something to do, do it. Don’t use your busyness as an excuse. Tonight was a reminder of that, your presentation was not up to scratch. More discipline is necessary.
I’m of the opinion that we should question everything that gets passed down through the ages. Some traditions become outdated, and hence irrelevant, and I think it’s our job to get rid of these things. I don’t believe in tradition for the sake of tradition. However, I believe in tradition if it holds certain benefits …
Today’s swim was a bit tough. 3 100s into my 12 100s set, someone jumped into my lane and began swimming. I had to push it for a little to overtake them, for fear of not making it in time had I slowed down for them. What ended up happening was that I made the …
Wikipedia won’t let me translate some pages, so I’m just gonna translate them and either put them here, or on my Medium account. Maybe Medium is better, because I’d like to share them more. I digress… Translating things like this helps me in writing my articles, but I think it can be a good way …
Beans from Guatemala. Bought at Espresso Aube in Nikaho. Extracted using Nel Drip. First instinct: they taste great! I shouldn’t have looked at the label and should have tried to guess, but it wasn’t overly acidic and what the hell, I need a chart to help me 🙂 the label said apple and caramel, and …
Holding many positions always comes at a cost. An opportunity cost. I’m in a position where I can potentially make a lot more money by doing more translation, but it would cut down my time for other projects with less chance of fruition. Perhaps in this case I should think of the best case scenario. …
I played Herbaceous and Merchants for the first time. I won herbaceous, well first equal, and did really badly on merchants because I wasn’t sure how to win, but I learned quite a lot, and even got a bit of confidence back too. Been doubting my intelligence recently, but have bounced back admirably. I wonder …
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