Rules and Culture

http://cogitated.livejournal.com/26550.html


It is more likely that rules are defined by the few "in-power", rather than by the general mass.

In an organizational context, there isn't such thing called "unfathomable rules" as far as the rule-makers concern.

If some seemingly "unfathomable rules" were set by the previous rule-maker and were never ratified by the current one.

It could be due to one of the 3 possibilities:
1. He likes these rules too;
2. Too hard to change;
3. Too trivial to bother.

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“适当的爆发，会让你感觉到自己仍然存在。”
------郑钧

The Certainty Bias

Only in the absence of certainty can we have open-mindedness, mental flexibility and willingness to contemplate alternative ideas.

---Robert Burton

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Having a religion is like having a life jacket in the swimming pool. Whether it is a good or bad thing depends on whether you are a strong or weak swimmer. But bear in mind, "it is always the strong swimmer who drowns."

Departure and Enlightenment

At the age of 29, Siddhartha , Prince of Kapilavastu, escaped his palace to become a mendicant, leaving behind his royal life.
...
6 years later, Prince Siddhartha gained enlightenment under a pipal tree, and rose as the Buddha we know.

Sometimes, it just keeps you wondering why it has to be a pipal tree...

Speech by Adrian Tan to the NTU graduating class of 08′

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddzjspjb_74hnmchcf8&hl=en

Adrian is best known for his fiction novels The Teenage Textbook and The Teenage Workbook.

Here is his bio...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tan

Random Thoughts (3)

Conversation is like chess play.