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Snigdha Roy

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  • I think sometimes when you aren’t working as hard as you’d like this is sort of a impasse between system 1 (subconscious effortless mind) and system 2 (conscious effortful mind). And system 1 tends to win. Driving a human around is like riding an elephant. The subconscious and the body exert huge momentum. It may help to make peace between these systems. One technique is to sit and scour your deepest thoughts for anything that might be bothering you. Things you need to do, things that scare you, and write them all down. This can have a purging effect. If you can surface and address each of the…
    Scott Jackisch's advice for energy/prod.
  • Last month I read "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch. I watched his "Last Lecture" on Youtube a long time ago, and I hadn't realized it was also a book that he wrote in the last few months of his life until I found it at my library. Randy Pausch was a Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who died of cancer at the young age of 47, leaving behind an incredible legacy on Computer Science Education, Virtual Reality, and Living Your Dreams. He wrote the book with messages he wanted to leave to his children (who were really young at the time of his death). It was really cool to r…
    Last lecture by Randy Pausch *CMU*
  • Few deities are as powerful and controversial as the Hindu goddess Kali. She is the Divine Mother, the Dark Mother, the goddess of time, power, creation, and destruction. While she is the master of Death, she also protects the innocent against evil. She is beautiful and fearsome, the quintessential embodiment of shakti, female power, and the mother of all living beings.
    Masculin Féminin - by Lan - The Love Diaries
  • generate collective narratives that inspire people to long for greatness instead of apologizing for success; inspire children to love their parents, and men to give their life, heart, and soul to their country; and re-establish marriage and family as pillars and fundamental steps of one’s life in lieu of mere afterthoughts.
    Masculin Féminin - by Lan - The Love Diaries
  • people are confused/distressed by the explosion in optionality and the constant need for renegotiation in relationships just as in other spheres of our lives
    Masculin Féminin - by Lan - The Love Diaries