Category Archives: Curiosity

Effectiveness, is a habit; that is, a complex of practices. And practice can always be learned. Peter Drucker

The cowards never start and the weak give up along the way – that leaves the winners.

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” — Thomas Jefferson

Napoleon allegedly said that no successful battle ever followed its plan. Yet Napoleon also planned every one of his battles, far more meticulously than any earlier general had done. Without an action plan, the person becomes a prisoner of events. And without check-ins to reexamine the plan as events unfold, the person has no wayContinue reading “Napoleon, Drucker”

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone – those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us as a river, the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has thousands of variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here. The infinity of past and future grapes beforeContinue reading “MBTA Red Line”

Weekly 3 Runs per week ~ 40 mins 3 Gym workouts per week ~ 40 mins Daily 4*25 of the CFA per weekday 2*25 of Python per weekday 2*25 of R per weekday 1 hr of LinkedIn per weekday

Take action and just do. No substitute for actually doing shit. Getting shit done -> progress.

Coming in early. Staying late. Listening to everyone. Taking feedback. Knowing everyone’s name. You can choose to play it safe and still fail, so why not go after what you want.

For the Dutch, a good banker is “boring and decent,” Sneller says, “not someone who’s adventurous and pushing limits.” Why the Dutch Hate Bankers – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-13/why-the-dutch-hate-bankers?utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-linkedin-business+&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic