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Sunday, June 26, 2005 |
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World's Fastest Man (On Life ) Jamaican Asafa Powell officially broke the world record for 100 meters when he ran the It took almost 3 years to better the record 0.1%, which took almost another three years previously to break by another 1/100 of a second. The 100 meters was ran in 10 seconds flat by Armin Mary of West Germany in June 21, 1960. That was before I was born. That means after thousands of attempts worldwide the last 45 years , the world record has for 100 meters has improved by 0.22 seconds, which is probably the time it takes to bat an eyelash. Trying to score excellence is now a matter of being a split hundred seconds faster than the competition. Ditto for business and in many endeavors.
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Saturday, June 25, 2005 |
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Think Week (On Life )
Twice a year, for one week, Bill Gates goes into a secluded site for his bi-annual think week. This is the time, which he purportedly spends 18 hour days just reading and thinking about the latest technologies, and what he feels Microsoft should ponder in the future. Nobody is allowed to be there, not employees, not family, not anybody except a person who discreetly brings him a simple meal twice a day. During this time, he would pour on hundreds of white papers, submitted by people from Microsoft and others, on what are the technologies that matter, and where Microsoft should go. I think this is a great great idea. Sometimes, we need complete silence to think deep, and listen to ourselves, and put in full concentration on things. Or maybe it is a good idea not even to wait that long. I know some people who give themselves a few minutes a day to go deep and momentarily forget what are the business issue at hand, and do the crossword puzzle. It is also said that Bill Gates ocassionally gives himself a few minutes of distraction to solve an online bridge problem. It is said that Bill Gates famous paper on the Internet Tidal Wave in 1995, or the initiatives to go online video game, to do secure computing, or the tablet PC all came from this think week. Now if he can afford that, why can't we? If he is so busy that he has to manage the world's largest software company, with over 60,000 employees and can give himself a week, why can't I?
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 |
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You have to Spend Time to Save Time (On Life ) I have made similar observations to myself in many situations, and thought to share this in my blog, but I never got around to doing it. So as we observe among us -- we know that if only we would have time to do organize, plan, or learn certain things, we would save time. If I have only time to organize my books and library, I would save that much time everytime trying to find my books... If I have time only to organize my mailbox, or learn that blogging shortcut, I would have save that much time everyday updating my blog.... etc. David Pogue of New York Times talks about the same topic (more)...
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