Gabriel García Márquez: The secret of good old-age

 

The secret of good old-age is none other than an honest pact with solitude.

Gabriel García Márquez

Warren Buffett's secret to success.

 

Somebody once asked Warren Buffett about his secret to success. Buffett pointed to a stack of books and said,

Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will…

Start acting on the information you already have.

 

Your entire life will change the moment you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope”. MLK.

 

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope”. MLK.

Cat mimicking bird and squirrel sounds is a hunting behavior

 

Cat mimicking bird and squirrel sounds is a hunting behavior  

https://youtu.be/C10LgCKMt2Q?si=kZjDTIlhoU4DEyNj

Cecilia BARTOLI Sposa son disprezzata

Cecilia BARTOLI  Sposa son disprezzata  

https://youtu.be/-yNSGbXnSrs?si=4I9wkz6yQekI7M6u

George Carlin

 

“Today’s professional parents; these obsessive diaper sniffers are over-scheduling and over-managing their children and robbing them of their childhoods. Even the simple act of playing has been taken away from children and put on mommy’s schedule in the form of play dates.”

~ George Carlin

Orson Welles

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
— Orson Welles

Cecilia Bartoli - Sposa son disprezzata

 

Cecilia Bartoli - Sposa son disprezzata

https://youtu.be/Z-ZfBgPpBJA?si=PgGKqKZ5eai-lqaR

Our revels now are ended - William Shakespeare

 

Our revels now are ended

William Shakespeare

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, 

As I foretold you, were all spirits and 

Are melted into air, into thin air: 

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 

The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve 

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff 

As dreams are made on, and our little life 

Is rounded with a sleep.

Alison Krauss and The Berklee Gospel Ensemble — "Down To The River To Pray"

 

Alison Krauss and The Berklee Gospel Ensemble — "Down To The River To Pray"

https://youtu.be/_CJfxaWRkNs

Human Life by Ernest Becker

 

George Harrison & Ravi Shankar - The Dick Cavett Show (1971)

George Harrison & Ravi Shankar - The Dick Cavett Show (1971)

https://youtu.be/9Z4E8soT1Gw?si=vb1gbOsxsxiLcuyK

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me (Sam Altman)

 

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.

Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short term, which will get easier over time.

It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people.

Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.

Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think.

Communicate clearly and concisely.

Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.

Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.

Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence.

Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization.

Fast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.  

Don’t fight the business equivalent of the laws of physics.

Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.

Scale often has surprising emergent properties.

Compounding exponentials are magic. In particular, you really want to build a business that gets a compounding advantage with scale.

Get back up and keep going.

Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.

Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/

Do Not Say That Life Is Waning.

 

Do Not Say That Life Is Waning.

by Thomas Moore

Do not say that life is waning,

Or that hope's sweet day is set;

While I've thee and love remaining,

Life is in the horizon yet.

Do not think those charms are flying,

Tho' thy roses fade and fall;

Beauty hath a grace undying,

Which in thee survives them all.

Not for charms, the newest, brightest,

That on other cheeks may shine,

Would I change the least, the slightest.

That is lingering now o'er thine.

Eddi Reader - My Love is Like a Red Red Rose

 

 "My Luve is like a Red Red Rose” by Robert Burns.

https://youtu.be/jXH9DVS76yM?si=IhlfSEfoey2IhSHg