As I spend more and more time in the world of enterprise software, I realize that my job as a programmer…
Its been an awesome two days at RubyConfIndia and I’m feeling the rush of being a part of an awesome community of creators. Two talks had a lasting impact on me. One by @steveklabnik where he talked about…
The Panther — Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Douglas Pinson)
His worldview from the constantly moving barsHas become predictable, boring and cannot holdAnything more. The black cat sees aThousand bars, and beyond the bars, nothingness.
The most common reaction when I tell people that I quit is ,”Why?!”.
This is intended as a note to self.
if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut,don’t do it.if you have to sit for hoursstaring at…
“Smoking kills you.”
“Living kills you.”
Khalil Gibran was a wise man. An excerpt from ‘The prophet’.
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, “Speak to us of Children.”
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
Translated by Thumbelina from the original (see video at the end)
When it was time for New York to sleep, loneliness abounded and the fog grew
and the wind got off the ship and walked on the shores.
Leo Igwe over at Culture Kitchen has an interesting post about the human condition and why we are the way we are, in an African context. An excerpt:
The Nigerian author, Ben Okri in his book, A Way of Being Free, said, “There are many ways to die, and not all of them have to…
im’ma go away to a deserted islandand read and think and write and shyteand then there’ll be a thunderboltand enlightenment will be mine
