My notes from a TED Talk by Shawn Achor, titled “The Happy Secret to Better Work”
Thesis: Happier, positive brains work better:
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 295)
What do you get when you mix company logos with truthful advertising? 60+ “honest company slogans” (like the two shown here).
I may not be a Buddhist -- I have a real problem with the word “suffering” at the very least -- I enjoy reading texts to learn how to meditate better. Last year I read this stuff on “treating meditation as a sport or game”, and it made a difference in my practice. It comes from a book named, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. (If you don’t want to buy the book, the author has made the PDF freely available.)
Winter heat swamps Alaska. Some sled dog races in Alaska and Canada have been canceled this year. Time will tell if the Iditarod will also have to be canceled. Image from earthobservatory.nasa.gov.
Per Carlos Castaneda, there is only one question you must ask yourself: “Does this path have a heart?”
“An application is just a collection of tiny details.”
Sunrise view of the Rocky Mountains, just south of Boulder, Colorado, January 28, 2014.
If you’re interested in meditation, this was the most important text I read in 2013. I believe the focus/concentration aspects apply to proper yoga practice as well.
The only road in and out of Valdez, Alaska has been covered over by an avalanche. Photo courtesy of the Anchorage Daily News.
Does a web browser running in the cloud make sense? I find myself debating the merits.
I was just reading Treating Code as an Essay in the book Beautiful Code, and saw this paragraph:
After that, I saw two versions of the famous, “Hello, world” program, one written in Java:
public class Hello {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, world");
}
}
and a second program written in Ruby:
(Not) Roger Federer tweeting about Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open. :)
I had some car trouble while traveling recently, and ended up in this nice lounge at the Toyota dealership in Crystal Lake, IL.
