ready or not..................

 

Readiness is not a feeling. It's a decision.

The voice in your head that says you're not ready is not protecting you. It's just stopping you from finding out what you're actually capable of.

-Mark Manson, from this edition

Puncture......................

Irreconcilable differences between old and new can be found in something as seemingly trivial as naming conventions.  The industrial age insisted on portentous-sounding names of great seriousness and formality, to validate the organizations which spoke with the voice of authority:  "Bank of America," "National Broadcasting Corporation,"  "New York Times."  Each of these three names stood for a professional hierarchy which claimed a monopoly of specialized knowledge.  They symbolized a starched-collar kind of mastery, and they meant to impress.  Even the lowest-ranking person in these organizations, the names implied, had risen far above the masses.

The digital age loves self-mocking names, which are a way to puncture the formal stiffness of the established order:  "Yahoo!,"  "Google," "Twitter,"  "Reddit," "Flickr," "Photobucket," "Bitcoin."  Without having asked the people in question, I feel reasonable sure that the founders of Google never contemplated naming their company "National Search Engine Corporation" and Mark Zuckerberg never felt tempted by "Social Connections Center of America."  It wasn't the style.

-Martin Gurri,  The Revolt of the Public

About all those coming "predictions".........

"But I’ve always found it’s more useful as an investor to prepare than to predict."

-Ben Carlson, from this post

No you're NOT..........................

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“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any."
-Hugh Laurie, as quoted in this blog post

Ain't that the truth............................

"Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times."
-Amelia Earhart, as extracted from here

Thought I ought to post this.....................

.............while it still could be construed as amusing:

Maybe some context would be useful for our younger readers.  The film clip below was produced by the Federal Government to teach kids to "duck and cover" in case of a nearby nuclear explosion.




It was a very different time.  I can remember doing this drill in the second grade:

original gif courtesy of Gerard

Not sure if I'm ready for this..........

Purple tomatoes are the food of the future..........................?