Ghost Stories

I never took a fancy to ghost stories. I wonder if it was fear or if it was the bad stories we had in India. Even know the scary part is not what is more interesting. Benevolent ghosts are what draw me in. hmm maybe it was the fear .... :) 

Innovators dilemma

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all

I liked the part where she talks about 

Disruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses fail. It's not more than that. It doesn't explain change. It's not a law of nature. It's an artifact of history, an idea, forged in time; it's the manufacture of a moment of upsetting and edgy uncertainty. Transfixed by change, it's blind to continuity. It makes a very poor prophet.

Another part from the book that struck a chord was the point about 

"two models for how to make money cannot peacefully coexist within a single organization."

Looks like there is a rebuttal that I havent read yet. 

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-20/clayton-christensen-responds-to-new-yorker-takedown-of-disruptive-innovation

[fifa14] Brazil 3 - 1 Croatia

Good to see him scramble to 2 goals in the opener. Oscar was truly good in the first 20 mins that I watched. Croatia really looked good though. Brazil's defense has always looked so open to me. Oscar's goal was a bit of an embarrassment or croatia though. I hope I get to see the replay later tonight :) 

Stoner

"Stoner" argues that we are ultimately measured by our capacity to face the truth of who we are in private moments, not by the burnishing of our public selves

What makes a life heroic is the quality of attention paid to it. 

The 20th century ushered in a shift from a "culture of character" which emphasized the importance of private behavior , to one of "personality" in which the exalted social role was that of a performer. 

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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The Streamlined Life - NYTimes.com

As the drive to compete intensifies, other things get streamlined away. In 1966, 86 percent of college freshmen said that developing a meaningful philosophy of life was essential or very important. Today, less than half say a meaningful philosophy of life is that important. University of Michigan studies suggest that today's students score about 40 percent lower in measures of empathy than students did 30 years ago.

I'm not sure if students really are less empathetic, or less interested in having meaning in their lives, but it has become more socially acceptable to present yourself that way. In the shadow of this more Darwinian job market, it is more acceptable to present yourself as utilitarian, streamlined and success-oriented.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/opinion/brooks-the-streamlined-life.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article