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Prevention is better than …

I’m now at the age where I need to seriously start to think about the main reasons I will die, or some of the reasons I will get degraded health. Some big ones that I can somewhat control: More on

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What are we waiting for?

This is it boys, this is war. War on lack of motivation, focus and control. So, it’s been 10 years since the last update on this blog. Things are, in many ways, still the same. The key issue still is

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Is 10 years a long time?

Probably a 6th or a 7th of my life. Clearly, I didn’t sustain my blogging habit from 10 years ago. I want to start the journey again. I have been doing quite a bit of logging in general. And I

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Focussed passion

To actually be successful, I think you need the general passion and confidence I described in the previous post; and focus that energy towards a goal.

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Confidence. Passion. Confidence?

Some people say you gotta fake it until you make it. Some people say you gotta be passionate about what you do. Can you fake confidence and make it into real confidence? What about passion? Can you ‘fake’ passion? A

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Courage

I am not a *huge* Gandhi fan, but I do admire him. I certainly don’t think he was a Mahatma (maha, atma). But I do take his deepest message to heart about true courage. Violence is a cowardly thing to

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Kobiyashi Maru

What is the right question to answer? Many times people get bogged down in the rat race of life, reacting to it excessively, thus distracting them from what the actual scenario should be. An inherent assumption about my previous claim

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Annus Mirabilis

I think everyone has an innate desire to be great in some regards. At least for some people, this desire forms the core motivation for waking up in the morning and getting out of bed. Acheivemment is a funny word.

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Write the ‘man’ page first

When I write command line interfaces, I generally go to a coffee shop or a bar, with a notebook, and write down its (future) man page. It helps me clearly define the capabilities of this tool (piggying back on the

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Body timeline

My body will become old. It is not old right now. But it will. Metabolism will suck in 10 years. Gaining muscle will become hard. I think the liver won’t be too affected but the heart could have an issue.

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