Here’s a diagram of the biggest codebases in history, as measured by lines of code:
This is based on the story of a couple of people who had grown up in a poor family in India. Period — 1980s and 1990s.
I have always loved movies and to be honest I typically would rather watch a meaningless…
…major life lessons from the front lines.
I always knew I wanted to be a mother. Kids love me. They always have. The other babysitters on my block had nothing on me. Come on, I even look like Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting. I’ve never been…
At Alan, we have a set of cultural values that we believe help us deliver the best product to our users, improve healthcare experience and be fast and effective. Those values have direct implications in the way we build our platform. They translate…
Every woman who heals herself helps all the women who came before her and all those…
I’ve recently found myself reflecting more and more on abundance thinking versus scarcity…
Actually, we do, and have, regularly, since the 1993 World Trade Center bombings (Google it, I’ll wait). Yes, the overwhelming majority of peaceful Muslims, in the US and abroad, were condemning, distancing, and explaining how terror attacks are inherently un-Islamic and haram (Arabic, “prohibited, unlawful, gravely sinful”) in classical and…
On Purpose London October 2014 Fellow, then Investment Manager at Impetus — The Private Equity Foundation, now Senior Analyst at the Evidence Centre at Oranga Tamariki — Ministry for Children, New Zealand
I’d only been to San Jose once and by “been” I mean passed through on my way to Santa Cruz. The second time I visited only a…
Theodore Roosevelt
There’s an Elton John song titled “Sad Songs (Say So Much).” It speaks to the universality of…
Hate is a human emotion we all are susceptible to. Although it’s one I do my damndest to not feel for anyone…
Whenever we’re at McDonald’s, Rachel would always eat her fries before her burger, and me, I’d eat my burger…
It’s just a day, like all the others. Some people had birthdays today. Some people had dentist appointments. Some people just went to work and came home and had a Tuesday. I got up and took my boys to school and then went to work. I worked. I laughed. I drank coffee. I talked to my clients. I did manicures and…
Some of you may know me, most of you do not. For more than 23 years I have defined myself as a pretty successful Advertising Executive living a fun filled life in NYC…
From being a voracious reader to a reading enthusiast — that’s how my reading habit got changed when I started working and entered into other phases of personal life. For last two years, despite all my sincere intent to read more, at best I could manage to…
Yes, we do pull doors when we should push. Do you want to know why?
By Chris Palmer, M.A.
Founder, FigureOutYourLife.com
THE STAPLER; PART ONE
The red dictionary in its self contained holder sat on her shelf above her typewriter for as long as I can recall her writing space in her Newton, Massachusetts apartment. Her writing space was where she typed all of recipes on index cards for me for my 21st birthday request. Her writing space was where…
A life lesson I learned in under half a day…..
Have you been busy trying to…
I love this story.
There is an old farmer who had worked his crops…
THE STAPLER; PART TWO
(this writing makes more sense when THE STAPLER; PART ONE is read first)
I would really like to take my grandmother’s stapler and slam it over my mother’s head. No not really but the fact that she is not speaking to me and asking me to never contact her again warrants the…
How to Create Demand by Giving Freely
Sunset Bay and the Season
The establishments of Sunset Bay have opened for the season! A friend who rents some is just finishing up the new curtains she…
A good relationship is like a bog. As time passes, you sink deeper inside. From there it’s impossible to come out. But…
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes and so we must learn to let go and let things flow naturally in whatever way and form they like. Living in the unknown is fun and addictive because you get to experience what it means to be truly free.
After the bank robber, I shut down my online dating accounts and focused on building a…
Is to show real world results.
If you don’t have anything to show, you’ll never be able to convince anyone.
Want to convince your parents you should be an entrepreneur?
I do feel lonely a lot of the time but I also don’t want to be near anyone a lot of the time.
When I feel lonely, there are some men who feel it and they suggest that I go somewhere with them, or they touch me when I don’t ask them to. Even when I long for love, for attention, for…
Non-mommy life Day 2
(I’m still entirely too sad to write about the last 48 hrs with chipmunk, maybe I’ll get there soon)
I’m trying to keep busy but the busier I am the more I am feeling like I’m forgetting something. I’m supposed to be getting her ready for school, I’m supposed to be checking in…
My morning began yesterday at 3:30 a.m. like most mornings when my bladder wakes me up.
This story originally appeared on Quora by Joe Metcalfe.
Perfection is overrated. And by that I mean the definition of perfect society has chosen to believe for centuries. Perfect or your not good enough nor trying hard…
Do we think about the intention behind any of our actions? Right now I am writing this and trying…
“Coming from a place of gratitude” is such bumper sticker wisdom. I’m searching for real gratitude.
Don’t get me wrong, being grateful for your life — your friends, loved ones, the food on the table — that’s fantastic and we should all say “thank you” more often.
My good friend and business colleague Arielle Elizabeth said to me today,
“I don’t often admit when I’m impressed by someone, but you say you’re going to get it, and you get it.”
Life is tough. Every day we face moments that will test our resolve. We get battered and we get bruised along the way…
Rather I’ve committed to the life I have because it’s exactly what I got.
I’m committed to being fat.
That’s a punch of truth this morning.
(Pst, have you read part 1 yet? )
We need to have a difficult talk…
I have a weird fascination with scars, I think that they are cool.
Scars, to me, mark the maturity of a person, and it shows that a person has skin in their game. Furthermore, they show that these people aren’t afraid of the risk of failing, which is…
Don’t let me know that you have one sole motivation in your life, and that it is a simple one.
I originally delivered this piece a few years ago during a disaster mental health training conducted by Disaster…
World is a messy place. And if you are running in the rat race, it becomes messier.
Ask a man his idea of a ‘perfect’ life and, oh boy! Be ready to hear an earful of fancy terms. But do we really need…
Yesterday I was attempting to buy a pair of AirPods from the Apple Store in Manchester. I’m sick of the headphone wire…
Always compare the feedback you get to your own internal barometer and if it correlates, make the change. If not, move on. The caveat is being honest with yourself about your own shortcomings. This only works if your internal barometer is accurate.
Live life with all your might. No matter what storms you encounter, bless them all. All of life is a gift. — Dottie
Do you ever do this?
It seems to me like everyone would agree with this statement:
Currently sitting at a bougie Dallas coffee bar, Halcyon, which I think is part of the same chain as the place in downtown Austin that everyone went to eat s’mores. Graduation was five days ago, but it is still just hitting me. It doesn’t feel like I am done — there’s still so many…
On a cold, damp, March evening in downtown Minneapolis a baker’s dozen of students…
"Today, take the time to slow down and enjoy the joy, cherish your moments, be more mindful, create a life you don't need a vacation from, slow down your pace and see the difference"
From every thought I have in mind words I’ve used in every line,Through sleepless nights,tears I’ve let to run dryI am yours.
Choices, Chances, Changes
This is amazing. My Dad did this for me (supported me as I left the family business as the only potential ‘heir’ to chase my own dreams) and his choice made a profound and formative impact on my life.
It will be what I remember my Dad for long after he’s gone.
Your article covers nearly everything I’ve been thinking through on this matter.
It is terribly suspect to behave as if Mr.Gupta, honest by all accounts, was blissfully unaware of the murky stuff going on in his ministry, right under his nose so to speak. We expect not only a reductionist form of textbook honesty from the…
Sometime during middle school, a group came to our school and handed out key chains. I can’t remember for the life of me what the group was or their purpose; but I remember the key chain. It was yellow and rubber and in the shape of… a key! Printed on it were the words: The key to success is…
Hello Mary Jane!
By: Marine Yanikian-Sutton
My father was a smoker-nicotine. He took long puffs on his Marlboro’s, finishing a packet a day sometimes. I’d watch from afar, a book on my lap. Occasionally, when he’d pause to step out of the fumes, I’d beg “Please, papa, please don’t keep smoking…
Since my early childhood, I have been an intense fond of travelling around but the experience of last tour was altogether different. It was arranged by Amal Academy at the end of an intensive fellowship which spanned over 3 month. It was not different because it was a…
5–24-17 E.B
Im 25 years old. Realistically I’m about 28–30% complete with my time on this earth baring any unforeseen tragedies. As I look around scope the landscape of where I am, compared to where I want to be, who I want to become, what I want to do. It’s just as foggy as it was 5 years ago when I was 20 and in college. The…
To understand each other well is a life-long learning process even with family members who we live with for so long. We tried summarizing the transitions of a “man’s puberty” from adolescence to becoming a young-adult.
Exercise ‘choice’ in your life to move in the direction of your soul
I wasn’t scheduled to work today, according to Bojangles, so I slept in and read part of To Sell is Human, by Daniel Pink.
My thoughts today are centered around dreams.
I can see my life unfolding in a lot of different ways, but I’m not sure exactly how to get…
Aku menyebut mereka racun.racun kehidupan.
Shortly after I had my daughter, I broke out in ezcema all over my face. I had always prided myself with good skin. I never experienced acne the way both my siblings had. I attributed this to my constant habit of drinking water as an adolescent and giving up all sodas when I was 15. Needless to say…
So my story shall have both parts as i have done both sorts of work. I would prefer each according to different stages n my life.
From a very start my dad never wanted me to do a paid job, he felt I was young, so I should focus on learning rather earning money. I…
“A man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it then steps in it”. While doing so, men continually complain that circumstances are unfavorable to them. “Things are not going my way or let the table take a turn” are the very common misunderstanding…
Our problem of success doesn’t just lie in the achievements we may stack up but in the goals we set before we even reached our first victory.
For many our goals still reflect the nature of achievement.
We may be in love with music, but caught up and influenced by a culture that teaches us you’re only…
There are those who’ll tell you that you can start a business without any deeper…
Last Saturday we, as amal family, planned a trip. Actually it was an outdoor session. We all…
Well, as a matter of fact, every person has a reason to live, but it’s just that they don’t understand what the reason is.
Every person is in search of something and the search is endless. Search is not a purpose of life but we still intend to search…
Today I made a mistake, it was a bad one, I felt really terrible. I felt terrible because it was something I could have avoided but I panicked…
Two roads diverged in a…
I love telling my kids bedtime stories. I tell them about a space-traveler and his alien friend exploring Jupiter. My kids love an impromptu story when I am around. We imagine all sorts of space junk together.
When I first started my career as a technical support agent, I was thrown into a path where I had no idea what my options…
“Air, water, earth, and fire originate in the universal force of love. You are all four elements therefore you are love.” Roxana Jones
…when writing
Me?What can I say?What can I say that’s new?What can I say that people will want to listen to…
If you’re looking for permission, you’ve got it.
This is for all the people, whether they are close to you or not. Family or Extended Family. Friend or Foe. Boss or Co-worker. It doesn’t matter…
Love isn’t roses
or
chocolates
A couple Indian kids, say 22 to 25 years young, came into my shoppe on a whim. They spoke…
Fear. Maybe the less expressed word and the most important one. You can not…
Day 1.
The thing about being commitment phobic is that it keeps me on my toes. It makes me want to keep exploring. I don’t seem to understand the concept of ‘settle’. How do people settle down? For me…
This is time lapse reads, so let’s cut to the chase.
I recently watched a design documentary where they used interrogation to design with empathy.
I used to fear these type of talks. I would avoid them. I honestly didn’t really want to know what was truly occurring for…
When I first started looking into doing some serious DIY projects and interior design for the house, I was very motivated… I thought it would be easy.
But how I was wrong, after a steep learning curve and many hours practice using tools borrowed from the neighbors, I…
My Recently Acquired Teaching Philosophy
My husband and I began a small trucking business in 1999 and have since acquired the help of people who are a…
Interviewing witnesses to ghostly sightings at an office building in southern Ohio this week I was reminded our eyes do…
“Seinfeld” popularized this “yada, yada, yada” phrase back in season 8, in April of 1997. During that episode, Elaine even yada yada’s sex:
We all have weaknesses, which is human. We are not always as super as we want to be and believe we can be.
This is very respectable and honorable to yourself and to the ones that believe in you
The body is the basis of all we can experience. Do we honour it or do we torture it trying to make it into something it is not ready to be? Do we love our life and the means through which we experience it. Do we think we are our body? Do we think that if our body…
Part 1 of ? / Evaluate. Destroy. Rebuild.
This article is from the Yes You Can’t Academy, which I founded to help further the study of high…
There is a residue of doubt that lines the shoes of my soul. Perhaps it is the necessary padding one needs to walk the skin of…
Disclaimer: This is *not* a review or commentary on the movie/musical, “The Last Five Years”, starring Anna Kendrick and…
Gemini ♊︎ New Moon Affirmation :
•TELL ME MORE 🍎
•TELL ME SOME MORE 💏
Hi Karenna, thanks for your response! I’m glad I could introduce you to some of the works about the heroine’s journey. There are many more I could have included. Since we are speaking about memoir and personal experience, you might…
When I was in Bible college, I volunteered in a homeless ministry. We walked the “mean” streets…
There are two essential moments in a process that I meet with clients that play a…
A few months ago I completed half a century on this planet and I just love the weight of that sentence! Half a century on this earth! woohoo! I have never been afraid of getting old and find it odd when people say well 50 is the new 40 or you are actually still young etc etc. It’s great to age! and 50 is the best thus far because at 50 I really…
Haz ejercicio antes de que el médico lo indique.
Deja el cigarro antes de sentir el daño.
Relájate antes de caer presa del estrés y el cansancio. Porque el cansancio se acumula y se convierte en ansiedad.
Life is all about progress. We spend so much of our time chasing down a title. Of course some titles are warranted such as, doctor, nurse and lawyer. But there is nothing stopping you to call yourself an artist or podcaster if that is what you do. At parties people replay the only introduction question they have, “what do you do?” We all feel that…
Hello,
This is my story.
Albeit a sad one.
Don’t worry,
I had a perfectly “normal” life
A privileged life if you will.
Chains are broken. Burden falls off. Freedom.
The last day at Amal was a bit difficult to absorb in mind. Three month of learning from this platform with love of people around you.
Amal career prep fellowship a journey of constant interesting events when reaches its…
For you, my heart, my soul, I would begin with the notion that time is your most precious inventory, and that the…
Self love is the key to happiness.
Loving a person or needing a person through life is good, it's a special feeling when that person chooses to love you…
There are people whose passion and profession coincide. They are happy and successful. It’s really great if you belong to this category. But I wonder if this phenomenon is possible at scale i.e every single person has a profession matching their passion.
The darkness on the lightside of the moon and the light on the darkside of the moon have been progressive themes…
AlhamduliAllah I have completed my M.sc (Chemistry) from University of Agriculture Faisalabad. One day it was my dream…
20th May 2017 is the day I will remind in my life. This was the day 27th batch of Amal fellowship went to their outdoor session to…
Hello everyone. I want to share some “good advice” with everyone today. This is advice I have arrived at through much trial and…
Violence and corruption is at an all time high. Society possesses abilities unmatched by any times before now and with that an…
Having no money does not need to stop you from making a start (Video)
Amal career prep fellowship was not only a 3 month course/fellowship for me. It proved to be the best platform for the life lessons and experiences I had.
One cannot build a bridge over the sea by explaining one specific thing…
At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady.
She started screaming out of fear.
With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands…
There are periods in your life where it feels like you are spending all your time…
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad…
grat·i·tude
ˈɡradəˌt(y)o͞od/
I should have known better than to make an unannounced visit to his home. Truthfully though, I did know better, which is why I’d carried a gun. But I left the gun in the car.
Is your job just killing you that when you wake up, you think, “uuuuugggghhh… I don’t want to go in.” Or is…
You don’t owe anyone an explanation. But, here are seven likely reasons why you’re unhappy at work and how it’s probably going to…
Anxiety makes me the eternal planner! So I am always three steps ahead of what is going on right now. In that frame of mind it’s easy for me to look back on a memory and not be able to recall any warm and fuzzy feelings about the experience. Of course the good news…
So maybe this is a cheesy one, but I’m OK with that. I’ve made a conscious effort to do this more often and it has…
If you have a problem, patching up the surface problem usually isn’t the answer…
Ok Emily, here is a story happened yesterday.
I own an auto service shop.
A young female is my customer.
She was pregnant last time i saw her.
Not married.
Yesterday she came.
From screaming, praying, deceased women and ghost children playing ball to banging and scratching on doors and…
Do you want to learn all the life skills in seconds? This could be possible by learning each second of day by yourself instead of waiting for others to demonstrate in front of you so you might be able to learn.
