Shifting the Blame is a topic I will discuss in the future because the show has addressed it many times but never links those times together. Some examples: “Jaywalking” - Adam Ruins Cars Recycling Adam Goes Green “Gamble responsibly” Adam Ruins His Vacation
This book has been discussed a lot lately on Hacker News and in recent media regarding technology addition and the Apple shareholders who expect apple to sovle this problem. This page is a stub for now, here because it is useful and I will write more about it, but also because it caused me to go back and revisit Scott Adam’s How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life because he references the addicitve nature of goals and suggests systems as an alternative.
I’m going to write an article about this, but I am not yet done reading this book. However, when I came across this passage, I had to share it with basically everyone who has questioned their progress/success/goals/motivation, well basically anything in their life. To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. That’s literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose ten pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goal—if you reach it at all—feeling as if you were short of your goal.
Random Quotes (in no particular order) These quotes resonated with me in some way. They may not be verified or accurate. But after further research some will get turned into stubs or full fledged articles of their own. Charachter A man is what he things about all day long. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (quoted in the movie “The Founder” by Ray Kroc) Failure In order to be good at standup comedy you have to love watching your self die.
Some things I would like to find: New keyboard designs (travel and ergonomic) Compute stick with 16+ GB of RAM Smallest x86 quad core portable computing device (w/32+ GB RAM) Update!: I have been playing with some great machines, including some surprising entries from HP that pack 65W (or 35W) Intel Quad Core 7th Generation Chips into a very small form factor weighing 2.3 pounds without the power brick.
This book has been discussed a lot lately on Hacker News and in recent media regarding technology addition and the Apple shareholders who expect apple to sovle this problem. This page is a stub for now, here because it is useful and I will write more about it, but also because it caused me to go back and revisit Scott Adam’s How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life because he references the addicitve nature of goals and suggests systems as an alternative.
Just starting to braindump other peoples stories that I find interesting… will keep adding and finding the full versions and linking. Work Ethic Michael J. Fox would sleep in the back of a station wagon in between the set of family ties (I think) and Back to the Future. He only filmed the movie on nights and weekends, and that is why so much of takes place at night Steve Aoki Random Marc Benioff got the idea for having an “App Store” from Steve Jobs, trademarked it and got the domain, and later gave it to Apple for free.
I’m going to write an article about this, but I am not yet done reading this book. However, when I came across this passage, I had to share it with basically everyone who has questioned their progress/success/goals/motivation, well basically anything in their life. To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. That’s literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose ten pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goal—if you reach it at all—feeling as if you were short of your goal.
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