David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address

March 19, 2007 in Life, Quotes

It is quite simply the best Commencement Address I have ever had the pleasure & privilege to read. Do read the whole thing. I attempt to give a flavour below, primarily for my own sake!
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own [...]

Happiness

March 18, 2007 in Cricket

…lies in not following Cricket, or rather more specifically, not following the travails of the bunch of clowns, who go by the name of Indian Cricket Team.
I seriously disagree with Confused when he says that this bunch of idiots needs to be fired immediately. No, dear sir, you have it all wrong!
We need to get [...]

Thoughts on Leaving 1

March 14, 2007 in Corporate Slavery, Thoughts

You spend years working for a company…you work late hours, you work weekends…you cancel vacations, miss your kid’s school play…arrive late for your anniversary dinner…because you want to give your best, because you love the place, and the people you work with, because they keep telling you that you are the only one…
When Management break [...]

Sheepwalking

March 11, 2007 in Business, Corporate Slavery, Quotes

In post-Sox environment, as organisations try to increasingly codify all processes, define norms of behaviour, prescribe ways of working and increasingly define rigid boundaries of what can & cannot be done, and how, they ironically kill off the very skills & behaviours required to thrive in the increasingly globalised, aggressively competitive business arena.
Seth Godin calls the management [...]

The Changing Nature of Education

March 11, 2007 in Links, Movies, Thoughts

I think all of us realise, to some extent or the other, that the world is changing. Really, really fast. And with it comes a realisation that our educational systems aren’t keeping pace. However, there are quite a few educators who are putting time, effort & thought into playing with the prescribed educational norms to [...]

SEC Rules Applied to Love

March 10, 2007 in Humor, Quotes

This memorandum is in reference to last night’s meeting, during which I offered to “love you forever, no matter what.” Hopefully, this memo will serve to clarify that statement, and to define its terms so as to make the offer specific and practicable.
…While “love” as a term will, I hope, prove uncontroversial, “forever” poses a [...]