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The truth is that those readers are teachers and other people who only have a minute or two to devote to scoring they essay. They are doing hundreds and there is no way they have time to really go in depth with the grading. The theory must have been true because I did particularly well writing section, without being a particularly strong writer, at least by instituitional standards…

Cogent: forceful

albeit

nefarious

boon and bane – (for comparing and contrasting)

pernicious-evil

mundane

ephemeral-

transitory-short term

unequivical – abolsute

due dilligence

diametrically transposed

vicissitudes-changes

germane- relevant

egregious – outlandish

obstreperous – out of control

endemic – native

sedulous – dilligent

fortutious – lucky accident

pecuniary – relating to money

inculcate – instill

aquiese – consent/comply

dogmatic – inflexible

opulent – wealthy

abstruse – difficult to understand

erudite – scholar

taciturn – untalkitive

cupidity – greed

wanton – reckless

inimical – opposed to

proclivity – predisposition

state / affirm / content / establish / according/ hence / futhermore

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here is an old story of a boilermaker who was hired to fix a huge steamship boiler system that was not working well. After listening to the engineer’s description of the problems and asking a few questions, he went to the boiler room. He looked at the maze of twisting pipes, listened to the thump of the boiler and the hiss of escaping steam for a few minutes, and felt some pipes with his hands. Then he hummed softly to himself, reached into his overalls and took out a small hammer, and tapped a bright red valve, once. Immediately the entire system began working perfectly, and the boilermaker went home. When the steamship owner received a bill for $1,000 he complained that the boilermaker had only been in the engine room for fifteen minutes, and requested an itemized bill.

This is what the boilermaker sent him:

Many of life’s problems can be solved just by knowing where to tap. Sometimes the smallest of changes can have the greatest effect. Other mechanics might have tried to replace part and do all sorts of other crazy things when all that is needed is the right knowledge of the problem. I wonder sometimes if I am doing all these crazy things trying to fix myself, when all I need is to make a small change.

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On your voyage toward developing self-discipline, you’ll encounter torpedoes from several sources outside yourself, but your most difficult opposition will come from within. Indeed, in your efforts to develop self-discipline, initially you will be your own worst enemy.

-Self-Discipline in 10 Days

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt, Paris 1912

 

In my opinion, this quote refers to the fact that it is better to be out there, trying, failing, doing, than to go do something that takes no great risk. It is better to be tried and at least see what you’re made of, to be in the arena. In the “areana” means that you are relavant or at least competing, you are not on the sidelines. I know that I’m competing, I’m just not in the top tier of areans yet. I may not with the big guys, but I think I’m on a path that with enough endurance and grit I may eventually be on that level, or so I hope.

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Regardless of our problems, they seem miniscule compared to the struggles of these people…

 

Lian described a Lunar New Year dinner he spent with the graduates: “At first, everyone was in a festive mood; we made dumplings and cooked many dishes … but then when it turned late and the bustle outside quieted down, completely unexpectedly, all of these boys and girls just huddled together, crying. At this very special occasion, there was no reason to hide their homesickness and frustrations any more,” he recalled. Deng Kun, a 24-year-old college graduate, is an “ant” featured in the book. After graduating from his university in Yunnan province, he came to Beijing and once lived in Tangjialing for about half a year and is now thinking about coming back due to the low cost of living there. Despite many setbacks over the past two years, he is still hopeful. “I don’t really care what hardships I have to go through, as long as I persist with my goal and continue to pursue a better life with an active attitude and a strong mind, I am sure I could succeed in the end. In this regard, we are indeed like ants.”

China’s Graduates: An Ant’s Life – China Real Time Report – WSJ

his article asks a good question about where the all of the innovation is in our country. We seem to be failing at pushing the boundaries in many sectors. There are monumental improvements out there in what is called by futurists as the Adjacent Possible. This means that only some incrimental change is out there on the horizon, ready to be unlocked and in turn unlock other complete new realities. The metaphor for the adjacent future is that of a room that when opened, unlocks a set of doors beyond it.

The article discusses the fact that in many fields innovation has really dried up, even though there is a lot of potential. We obviously need some sort of paradaigm shift from our purely profit driven model. I’m not saying anything against capitalism, but the fact is when money is put upfront in the form of contests and guaranteed investment, people become more motivated. We need to gamify our society and our economy in the right ways to stimulate the growth where it is really needed. I blame some of this on our culture prizing profit so highly against everything else. It’s pretty sad to me when the smartest people in our country from MIT and Ivy Leagues schools end up going into consulting and finance. We need our rocket scientists actually building rockets, not creating algorithms to trade stocks a millisecond faster.

We need people dreaming about how to solve the problems of society, not of brokerage houses. Our country is being robbed of it’s greatest minds so that they can go to Wallstreet and other profit-intensive industries. There are many other industries that offer a good life, however the payment isn’t so direct and gaurenteed as it is in the finance world and we as a society should be working on this problem. I am not a pessimist though, and I belive the inventions we need are only a matter of time because there are smart people out there working on these problems, but not nearly enough. The more people we have solving the real problems, the quicker we can all benefit from that reality.

Outside of a select group of sexy technologies, innovation is almost entirely absent

Eliminating these innovation black holes could do more to improve our lives and the economic future of our country than the latest Web-based social-networking applications. These long-standing problems are not sexy. But they exist in critically important sectors of the economy, such as chemical refining and automotive technology. Imagine a cleaner, more efficient alternative to the internal combustion engine. Unlike battery-powered-car start-ups and solar- and wind-power companies, the internal combustion engine has been almost entirely ignored by venture capitalists. This has remained true even while gas floats above $3 per gallon. Over the past 50 years, innovation to improve fuel economy has only occurred when the government has called for it. In the same period that solar- and wind-power companies have pulled in billions in venture capital and government loans, automotive transportation start-ups focused on internal combustion engines have received little attention or financing. This, to me, is a shocking market failure. Both wind and solar technologies require tremendous capital expenditures before they can be brought to the market and scale up to production. In contrast, a radically improved internal combustion engine could be easily produced with existing industrial capabilities and quickly dropped into the global car production cycle. This technology could also do more to quickly reduce carbon emissions, national oil dependency and general transportation costs than wind or solar.

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I did a little more investigating, and as if I wasn’t already in love with her just from hearing her voice, the moment I saw her in her in the music video for Video Games (below), I was done for. And when I found out that she made the video herself, I was even more blown away. Right now she is not that “big” but I know that she is going to be the next big thing and so I will update this page to follow her progress.

In the old days, people used to cut articles out of newspapers and magazine and put them in books of clippings, this my internet version of that:

From Wikipedia:

From a Pitch Fork Interview:

The song that got me:

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