Line of the day

comes from my Industrial Management textbook’s opening notes about advertising.
” Running a business without advertising is just like winking at a beautiful girl in the dark – you know what you are doing but she does not know it.”
Well, most times, its in your best interest that the beautiful girl doesn’t know.
Hmmm.

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The “purpose” of Stanford

Surfing around the web, or the blogosphere in particular, one is likely to find mixed opinion about Stanford University. For one year, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of living and studying there, so I’m more on the side of Stanford’s admirers than the cynics.
My Google Alert for Stanford threw up the [...]

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Here’s an old story that I re-heard a few days back. It’s quite a common one, but made an impression this second time around. I’ve since been trying to practise it as best I can. It goes as follows :
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There is a Taoist story [...]

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