August 2011
3 posts
Ode to Tea
Withered, dry, and self-effacing, the tea leaf is a fascinating offspring of nature’s resplendence. With the finest of its kind grown and nurtured in the heartland of Asia, it is the second most popular consumed beverage in the world. Yet, the intrinsic humility of the plant itself has yet to be fully appreciated. Often prostituted and stripped of its former glory, the tea leaf undergoes a...
From Engineer to Market Analyst
My email to Horace Dediu, founder of asymco:
Me: What motivated you to essentially “switch” career paths [from engineer to analyst], and on that note, what advice could you give to a person, such as myself, who is keen on leveraging his computer science education to better understand the market?
Dediu: My motivation was that I was frustrated working in a failing company and being...
However Vast the Darkness, We Must Supply Our Own...
Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living?
Kubrick: Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our own mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow...
