The Change Your Thinking Reading List
Brought to you by Nicholas Bate.
Nuclear Explosions: A Visualisation
An extremely interesting and yet haunting visualisation of all the nuclear weapons that have exploded on Earth since 1945. The silence of the visualisation with the intermediate pings to denote each explosion is quite eerie.
Trinity from Orbital Mechanics on Vimeo.
via kottke.org
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... with our man from Arizona, Michael Wade.
Dammit. Bought Reeder 2 on the MAS then found out today that Reeder 3 is in beta and includes Instapaper.
Challenge and Eliminate
Don’t be afraid to challenge prospective clients with goals. Make them work to prove that they’re really the right clients for you. Be bold.
— Curtis McHale by Curtis McHale
Read on for the full background story.
And Talking of Japanese Words
... here's The Art of Manliness with their take on kaizen.
The Kaizen approach to self-improvement completely circumvents the unproductive ups and downs all too common to the quest. By breaking down big, overwhelming goals into super small, discrete pieces, Kaizen encourages action. The small successes you experience with your baby steps feed on each other and start building some momentum, which leads to taking bigger and bigger actions.
— Get 1% Better Every Day: The Kaizen Way to Self-Improvement
by The Art of Manliness
You Don't Need
Nicholas Bate with more thought provoking lists of wisdom.
Nights are Fair Drawing In
Darker nights mean no more sun blessed evening rides, well at least until next year. Going to make an effort to get a few more bikes rides under my belt in the evening and enjoy the last days of summer.
Ever since I heard about the word kaizen used in Scrum, I've been fascinated how Japanese words can signify more in one word than the English translation can.
These Japanese words are more examples of this. My favourite is ikigai.
via Swiss Miss