There are 52 Saturdays a year. What if, just for one year, you set aside 12 hours of that day to work on a project for your own long term benefit. Write that book. Learn to play a musical instrument. Learn how to run a new piece of equipment. Record that CD/album. Master a new programming language. Get certified in project management. Finally understand quantum physics. Study for the actuarial exam. Doesn't matter what, but just do something that produces a tangible result or skill. Or, results in creation of a product or tool. There are 2080 billable hours in a year and 624 work-hours in a year of long Saturdays. That's exactly 30% of a man-year. What if you did this every year for ten years? It'd be like having a time generation machine. You'd be at least three years ahead of the version of you that just kept doing what you've been doing. The average undergraduate degree is equivalent of 120 semester credit hours. Each three hour class put you under the influenc...
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Minding my own business, trying to eat some eggs rolls and pork fried rice, I overheard this conversation between an older gentleman and what might have been his grandson or some college kid doing an interview for a class project. If it’s in earshot, I’m going to listen. So, if this was YOU talking and it bothers you that I put this up or you feel you were misquoted, contact me and I’ll take it down. I thought others might learn something from this. --------------------------------------- transcribed from memory ----------------------------------- It’s been some time, now. Can we talk about Paris Dennard? Sure, we can. Maybe there are some lessons to be learned and some myths to be dispelled. What actually happened to him? The natural life cycle for someone with his (perhaps chosen) role in society played out in its routine fashion. What do you mean by, someone with his role ? By that, I mean someone who has no “value added relationship with the materials, ideas, informat...