Surya Prakash Jayanti

This book is about the visit of Desmond Tutu (Archbishop) to the Dalai Lama's place for his 80th birthday. It is not a religious book but rather focuses on compassion and the human way of living beyond religion. Here are a few quotes that struck me... So much of human suffering occurs within our own head and heart. The suffering from a natural disaster we cannot control but the suffering from our daily disasters we can. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Wherever you have friends thats your country and wherever you receive love, thats your home. Self centered attitude is the source of the problem. Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you don't want does not result in happiness. Trying to seek happiness through sensory gratification is like trying to quench your thirst by drinking saltwater. There are 4 independent brain circuits: Our ability to maintain positive state Our ability recover from negative state Our ability to focus and avoid mind-wanderin...

Quotes from book "Bomber Mafia" - Malcom Gladwell Only god invents , humans discover. The more you invest in a set of beliefs  the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction, the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggest that you are mistaken. You should never do evil so that good may come. Read the story about Curtis Lemay vs Haywood Hansel. We don't give prizes to people who fail at their given tasks, no matter how noble their intentions. Quotes from book "Originals" - Adam Grant. Question the default. Triple the number of ideas you generate Immerse yourself in a new domain Procrastinate strategically Seek more feedback from peers voicing and championing new ideas Balance your risk portfolio Highlight the reasons not to support your idea Make your ideas more familiar Speak to a different audience Be a tempered radical Managing emotions: Motivate your self differently when you are committed vs uncertain Don't try to calm down...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself, there by all progress depends on the un-reasonable man. A startup started selling eyeglasses that normally cost $500 in a store for $95 online donating a pair to someone in the developing world with every purchase. There are two routes to achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd. Originality is taking the road less traveled. People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it. The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists. Before women gained the right to vote in America, many "had never before considered their degraded status as anything but natural". Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new. The more you value achievement, the more you come to dread failure. After all, if you...

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Quotes from the book Black code - Ronald J. Deibert Hiring a DDOS attack, $30-$70 a day; backing a Facebook or Twitter account, $130; hacking a Gmail account, $162; scans of legitimate passports, $5 each. Around globe botnets can be rented cheap online from public websites for weeks, days, even hours. The security firm McAfee estimates that they receive 80,000 new malicious software samples a day. Want a fresh exploit that will target Adobe ? That will cost anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000. Mac OS X ? $20,000 to $50,000. Android ? $30,000 to $60,000. One exploit targeting Apple's iOS system was reportedly sold to a U.S. agency for $250,000. DDOS outage would cause substantial financial firms estimating losses at more than $10,000 per hour, and 67 percent of retailers at $1000,000 per hour. Beyond financial losses, companies also reported fears of damage to brand reputation. Quotes from "where good ideas come from - Steve Johnson" All other things being equal, a breakthroug...

Here are some quotes from the book "Measure what matters - John Doerr". For the record below picture is generated by DALL-E (Open AI website). Our goals are servants to our purpose, not the other way around. We do not learn from experiences, we learn from reflecting on experiences. A mission is directional, An objective has set off concrete steps that you are intentionally engaged in and actually trying to go for it. The biggest risk of all is NOT taking one. In 2007, National academy of engineering asked a panel of elite futurists to choose 14 grand engineering challenges. They selected challenges like "generate energy from fusion, reverse engineer brain, prevent nuclear terror, secure cyberspace". At the time other email provider are giving 4 MB space, Gmail came with 1 GB free space. That my friend is BHAG(Big Hairy Audacious Goal). If you set a crazy, ambitious goal and miss it, you still achieve something remarkable. In a world where computing power is nearly l...

"Stolen Focus" is very interesting book written by Johann Hari, if I have it my way I will make this book mandatory for all students before they complete high school. Here are few quotes from that book that I really loved. On an average an adult working in an office stays on one task for 3 minutes. Obesity is not a medical epidemic - it's a social epidemic. We have more bad food choices available so people are getting fat. When attention breaks down, problem solving breaks down. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. Average American spends 3 hours and 15 minutes on phone. We touch our phones 2,617 times every 24 hours. We cannot put off living until we are ready, life is fired at us point-blank. - Jose Ortega y Gasset Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego, it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting y...