Ashwin Upadhyaya's Blog

……..His own charity, though, was harder-edged. On earth a free capitalist system was the only way to enrich the poor. No safeguards were needed: an unethical enterprise would fail, “if not at first, then eventually.”
-John Templeton, investment analyst, self-made billionaire

Look at a chair, a chair is a chair or it is not a chair. It cannot be both according to the constraints of logic. Yet suppose I take a chair and gradually dismantle it… take a leg off, a bit of the back, half of the seat and so on. At what point exactly does it cease being a chair and start becoming a heap of wood?
-Michael Michalko’s Amazon Blog

-Dances with Wolves.
One of those movies which give you a different perspective towards what we think as right and what we consider wrong.

Supposedly, resisting that ice-cream or choosing which movie to watch exhausts the same muscle that helps you in coding or maybe solving a math problem. Many a times, you get bothered by petty decision making processes. For example, “Should I wear this shoe or that shoe today?”. Ponder over such a question long enough and you would  have depleted your executive function of the brain so much that the next few hours would result in some buggy code being written by you. Read the full article here at Scientific American.

So, next time you are stuck with petty decisions, just make one without thinking too much. There are much more important stuff out there for which you need to preserve your brain.

“What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness?  No.  Just as love and hate are two sides of the same coin, so are happiness and sadness.  Crying out of happiness is a perfect illustration of this.  The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is – here’s the clincher – boredom.”
-Timothy Ferris, Four-Hour Workweek

The point is that you may be solving a wrong problem