16-03-02 Couldn't put it down. Literally. I neglected other duties for 36 hours. Excellent continuation of the story. Again, fascinating view of drivers of species survival seen through a different cultural lens, somewhat alien to my Western background. I di...

16-02-24 If I knew it would be the last time I'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the lord , your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time I'd see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss you, and call you...

16-02-18 It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den. He paused on the step as...

16-01-30 Secret #1: They focus on minutes, not hours. Average performers default to hours and half-hour blocks on their calendar. Highly successful people know there are 1,440 minutes in every day and there is nothing more valuable than time. Money can be lo...

16-01-13 This is allegedly actual text from an American home economics text book, circa 1950. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal on time. This is a way of letting him know you've been thinking about him and concern...

16-01-05 Once a man planned to build a terrace. He worked very hard and spent a lot of time digging and carrying earth. When the mound was almost completed and only one more basket of earth was needed, the man gave up. The terrace was never completed. This i...

15-12-09 I HAD now been in this unhappy island above ten months. All possibility of deliverance from this condition seemed to be entirely taken from me; and I firmly believe that no human shape had ever set foot upon that place. Having now secured my habitat...

15-12-03 I celebrate myself, and sing myself. - Walt Whitman 我为自己欢庆，为自己歌唱。沃尔特惠特曼 Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in o...

15-12-02 It feels like time speeds up more and more every year, but its actually technology speeding up our perception of time, one researcher says. 研究人员称，每过一年，人们都觉得时间过得越来越快，但实际上，是因为高科技产品让我们觉得时间变快了。 Smartphone...

15-11-23 How to Start Your Own Country If there is anyone, that has enough time and money to invest in starting his/her own country, I'd love to meet him/her. Even better, I'd love to meet the person that sat down and had enough time to write a book surround...