"When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.

When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy.

It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will."

This was posted on Quora under "Who is Sachin Tendulkar?"

Though I couldn't trace it in TIME's archives, it inspires none the less. 

As a coder, it has always been a dream to develop my own blogging/CMS platform. Something where you can plug-in anything - anywhere.

I am finally moving from Tumblr to my own blogging platform. Though it is nowhere near to complete, releasing it would at-least keep me going. So here is the version One.Dot.O.

Stay tuned, lots and lots of interesting things are queued up!!!

[Going back to work :P].

Thanks to Matt for this beautiful essay - “1.0 Is the Lonliest Number.”

We didn’t know much about each other twenty years ago. We were guided by our intuition; you swept me off my feet. It was snowing when we got married at the Ahwahnee. Years passed, kids came, good times, hard times, but never bad times. Our love and respect has endured and grown. We’ve been through so much together and here we are right back where we started 20 years ago - older, wiser - with wrinkles on our faces and hearts. We now know many of life’s joys, sufferings, secrets and wonders and we’re still here together. My feet have never returned to the ground.

Page 293 of “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson

(via Motivation Summary)

For any given month, all the multiples of 7 fall on the same day. I usually have memorized what day that is for the current month and the next few months. So October is a “[F]riday month” and November is a “Monday month” and December is a “Wednesday month”. You only have to memorize a new one every month.

Now when somebody says, “We should get together one Saturday. Say… December 12.” you can snap back with “That’s a Monday. Do you mean December 10?” All you have to do is find the nearest multiple of 7 and work from there. So when they ask about December 12, that’s close to December 14 - which must be a Wednesday (since December 2011 is a Wednesday month).

via LifeHacker.

Hahahaa, that is a simple handy trick!!!

Either of those can come first. What is important is that the other should follow. You might read an interesting quote, be told about a good investment, develop a liking for something, want to take an impulsive decision…; since these all are controlled by left brain, it is necessary and helpful to support it with proper logics.

On the other hand, you might have finished with lot of theory, attended an interesting talk, read a news article, read a good book…; these are processed by right brain. To get accustomed to them, one needs to apply them practically and develop it as a part of left brain.

To summarize, if a new thought / idea comes, then develop logics. And if a new thing is learnt, then try to develop a mental model for it.

As popularly said�: if you ASSUME - you make an ASS of yoU and ME.

Whether it is about acceptable ID card, flight timing, dress code, location of something… if you have even a slight doubt then it is better to confirm it. These things are few of those trifling ones but can cause high impact.

Save yourself from an embarrassment - clear your doubts!

Want to respond to letters - complete the report - read a book - spend quality time with family?

Try turning off the router for an hour. Handling impulsiveness is easy, you just have to:

Throw away the key: Close off tempting alternatives.

Setup a couple of Pomodoros to complete the job; or talk the matters with your complete presence. Don’t let your impulsiveness distract you! Your job will end up better and your clients will be happier.

Similar “tempting alternatives” might include: phone, television, tickers, IMs etc. When work starts expanding, turn these off - focus, and you can happily return to them after that.

You can stay afraid forever of:

- a subject (taxation, particular disease, English grammar, politics),

- a term (SQL joints, standard deviation, VLOOKUP, Piotroski score),

- a method/framework (organisation manuals, guidance notes, new technology, Gmail, Linux), or

- an activity (swimming, public speaking, driving)

or get into its depth, learn about it, practice it and become its master. It might take some time and patience to learn something new (especially when you fear it), but you will soon realize that you have removed a bottleneck.

So start taming your fears!