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Reading Challenge: 2014 | A Person from Porlock
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A Person from Porlock. Visiting purpose, distraction, and everything in between. December 20, 2013. Hello, hello. So I am back! This is a one off post, will do my bit of apologising for the long absence and all that jazz when I do a proper blog post later on! For now, down to brass tacks. This is as a result of my conversation with @a henna. On Twitter. She has this wonderful blogpost. Up, where she has taken up the challenge to read 29 English classics. 1 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 😛 Al...
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All My Theory Complete | A Person from Porlock
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A Person from Porlock. Visiting purpose, distraction, and everything in between. All My Theory Complete. July 20, 2010. The Old Astronomer to His Pupil by Sarah Williams, Annotated). Not many people I have known have asked my what my favourite poem is. But whenever I have been lucky enough to be asked this, I have always gone on and on about. The Old Astronomer to His Pupil. By Sarah Williams [1]. I first read it on the awesome Generation Terrorists. Who only had the first four stanzas. And remember men ...
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Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class
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Experiments in refactored perception. Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class. December 8, 2011. I want to share the story behind approximately $2700 dollars worth of my spending this year that reveals how I am finally starting to leave the middle class, materially, financially and psychologically. No, I am not moving up into the rich class or down into the poor class. I am doing something complicated called. One reason is that I still have residual middle-class financial programming. Being ...
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Huh. | A Person from Porlock
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A Person from Porlock. Visiting purpose, distraction, and everything in between. April 15, 2012. As I have mentioned before. On this blog, my favourite genre of writing is the kind of books that are broadly classified as thrillers. However, they are reality difficult to fit into any one particular group. To start with, the term ‘Thriller’ itself is a misnomer, as nobody would call Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I was reminded of this when I completed Mind Prey. Of the Minneapolis PD as the. The amazing &#...
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Lumos! | A Person from Porlock
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A Person from Porlock. Visiting purpose, distraction, and everything in between. July 23, 2009. Supposed to be the best of the lot, as heard from a lot of friends, and also from other blogs. How did I know I was “blown away” and not merely “intrigued” or “excited”? As Govinda / Sanjay Dutt. Would say: “Murderrr agar na hota, toh mysteryaan na hoti / mysteryon ke bin chalaak detective bhi na hote.” I can go on, but will stop it here. Quietus! From → Everything in Between. Larr; Reading and Running. Arts a...
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A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
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Experiments in refactored perception. A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100. June 8, 2011. In its 400 year history, the corporation has achieved extraordinary things, cutting around-the-world travel time from years to less than a day, putting a computer on every desk, a toilet in every home (nearly) and a cellphone within reach of every human. It even put a man on the Moon and kinda-sorta cured AIDS. Framing Modernity and Globalization. The Corporation that Changed the World. By Joel Mokyr, pr...
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The Las Vegas Rules II: Stuff Science
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Experiments in refactored perception. The Las Vegas Rules II: Stuff Science. June 16, 2011. In lifestyle design, your relationship with your material possessions — “stuff” — is perhaps. Stuff is different. Even. About it is hard. We don’t even have a good word for it. If you’ve been living on your own for at least a couple of years, getting a clear sense of all the stuff in your life takes an intense, draining and intellectually demanding exercise like a GTD Sweep. In lifestyle design discussions, I find...
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