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So this is what this book is about – that dream, the first forty, those years “whose margins fade for ever and forever” as we move. As a young man I never understood what the beautiful phrase from Tennyson meant. That was the one thought in the whole beautiful poem “Ulysses” that eluded my grasp. Now I know why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

If you are only working 8 hours a day, you are slacking Training to become a surgeon is brutal. Neurosurgeon is even more so. But, really, It takes years of hard work and dedication to be good at anything. 8 hours a day won’t be enough. First third of the book is boring The author was a good kid, a great student from elementary school ...

There is NOT always a happy ending In American movies, there is always a happy ending. The hero saves the world and reunites with his sweetheart. In Russian movies, heroes die, but life goes on. Maybe different history does give people different presumption about life and world. With only 200 years of mostly peaceful history, Americans are o...

To appreciate is to judge I read the book and watched the movie. Neither the book nor the movie Oppenheimer has done the justice for the life of a genius. Maybe Oppenheimer is as hard to decipher as quantum physics, the author failed to appreciate him. Because to appreciate is to judge. With all the facts and complexities of Oppenheimer’s lif...

7 days in Costa Rica. Driving We booked three hotels hundreds of miles away because Google Map told us it only took a few hours to drive between them. When we got there, we realized Google Map was way too optimistic in its estimates. Normally in US, you drive over the speed limit, but in Costa Rica you drive way below the speed limit. Therefor...

If you want a trip with international feel but not the extra flight time, Quebec is an option. It will bring you to Europe with a french touch. Unlike most American big cities, filthy, unfriendly to pedestrian and dangerous, Montreal and Quebec city gave us the impression of clean, safe and very walkable. Just like European cities (e.g. Vienna o...

Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience is a bestseller by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Although MC himself has done TED talks on this topic, his talk is hard to digest due to his thick accent. Steven Kotler has a much better delivery of the key ideas of the book. https://youtu.be/znwUCNrjpD4 If you like this summary video, you should read...

It has been a while since the last time we were in New York city. Dropping ourselves from a suburban town into the forest of skyscrapers, we were quite overwhelmed by the filth, the smell, the noise and the hustle on the streets. But Ryan really enjoyed the city vibe and it was his first visit. The Performance The main mission of the trip was ...