All In

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing to Prove

Genuine humility operates on a rather simple philosophy: Nothing to prove, nothing to lose.

Charles Swindoll

Data Mining and Jeopardy!

Roger Craig won a quarter of a million dollars on the TV game show Jeopardy! this year, setting the all-time record for money won in a single game. Here's how he did it: The Computer scientist decided to focus his study on the most common topics that come up during a game. He downloaded an online database of all the past questions and then created a pattern recognition program to look for the types of questions that were most likely to come up again - and then studied accordingly. World capitals are more likely to come up than questions about fashion, so he spent more time studying capitals. And instead of trying to learn every capital, he focused on the most statistically popular. He told NPR, "You can practice haphazardly or (you can study) efficiently."

The lesson here: before throwing yourself into a project haphazardly, spend some time identifying its critical parts and organizing how you will attack them to prioritize your effort.

There is a video of Craig in action here and you can hear an NPR story here.

And the future belongs to..

The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.

C.K. Brightbill

What Forgiveness Does

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

Letting in the Light

Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

How You Serve

For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act. But it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

CS Lewis

In the First Place

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Eating & Fasting

feed opportunities - starve problems

The Wrong End of a Telescope

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss

The Failure Compass

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

What Irritates you?

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

The Shower

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets
out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a
difference.

Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari)