Stuff you must read today (Sun, 25 Sep 2011)

  • Manvotional: The Gains of Drudgery | The Art of Manliness

    “He who has never learned the art of drudgery is never likely to acquire the faculty of great and memorable work, since the greater a man is, the greater is his power of drudgery”.

    Read the post once on its own accord once; there’s some truth in it. Then read the post once more – but on that reading, assume it has been written as satire.

  • Kumar lied! I will never believe celebrities again | S M Ong

    “But I’ve learned my lesson. I shall never believe anything celebrities say again.

    The next time I see Gurmit Singh hosting a show on TV and says, ‘We have a great show for you tonight,’ I will retort, ‘No, you don’t.’”

    The entire column is a riot but this joke is extra funny because this S M Ong fella is the same Smong of Live on Five fame (a variety show that Gurmit Singh used to host in the ’90s).

  • Swivel shifts | Bobulate

    “…small shifts in thinking that can have large effects… [e.g.] Dutch drivers are taught that when you are about to get out of the car, you reach for the door handle with your right hand — bringing your arm across your body to the door. This forces a driver to swivel shoulders and head, so that before opening the door you can see if there is a bike coming from behind… . The coexistence of different modes of travel is hard-wired into the culture”.

  • What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school | The Oatmeal

    Well, it makes sense. In a way.

  • Don’t Go To University For The Sake Of It | kennysia.com

    “My parents spent hundreds [of] thousands of dollars sending me to an overseas university, and I end up writing a blog and running a gym”.

    On the other hand, one could say that this was THE lesson – albeit, an expensive one – he needed to learn in order to find out what he wanted to do with his life.

Stuff you must read today (Sat, 6 Aug 2011)

Stuff you must read today (Tue, 5 Jul 2011)

  • Helmetless Motorcyclist Killed While Riding to Overturn Helmet Law | Freakonomics
  • “One bizarre unintended consequence of the rollback in helmet laws: more human organs available for transplantation”.

    You know what? I bet if this were the premise of a drink-driving campaign e.g. organs depicted driving cars, I’m sure drink-driving rates would drop drastically, because human beings are not, by nature, altruistic.

  • Food Ark | National Geographic Magazine
  • “In short, in our focus on increasing the amount of food we produce today, we have accidentally put ourselves at risk for food shortages in the future”.

  • 15 Shopping Rules of Thumb | The Simple Dollar
  • “Pay for experiences, not things. A thing is something that takes up space in your house. An experience changes who you are as a person. One cannot be replaced, while the other can easily be replaced. Give me junky furniture and a lifetime of memories”.

    In my case, give me no physical gifts, please.

  • Will Glenn Ong run out of colleagues to marry? | S M Ong
  • I was thinking the exact same thing when I heard the news!

  • Dating, Madoff and Supply and Demand | The Altucher Confidential
  • “You need to contact up to 30 people to sell your business, or raise initial money for your fund, or get a job, or whatever… . What this also means, is that if the supply in the market you are aiming for is not 30 (i.e. if you are building a product that ONLY Google would ever want to buy) then you are probably in the wrong market”.

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