Pot of Gold

Nothing can ever go wrong while carrying within you a constant and genuine kindness, compassion, and empathy for those around you.

The concept of happiness is a funny one in that we have been taught it is like a pot of gold at the end of rainbow we must search for. Happiness is not something to search for; it is something available now when you rid yourself of all that hinders it.

The fluctuating content of our lives can never open the doors to anything other than fluctuating emotion, as its very nature is one embedded in change. Our high’s and low’s will continue in perpetuity; wisdom derived from experiencing emotional peaks and valleys points towards detaching your state of well-being from that which can never be stable.

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The Humbling of Scientific Research

I stumbled upon an article in the NYTimes: Finding From Particle Research Could Rewrite Known Laws of Physic, which speaks to newly discovered subatomic particle behavior that seems to defy our textbook physics. It immediately struck me as a topic worth speaking to and for good reason:

We have lived through a decade of a dramatic drop in the price of storing vast quantities of data, amidst exponentially more powerful compute; capable of calculations incomprehensible a mere 10 years ago.

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The Fallacy of Reality

| Reality: the quality or state of being real |

Our lives and everything contained within them function on the basis of our conceptualized reality. We make our decisions based upon what is real: what is factual and what is tangible. Our friends, our families, our hopes, our dreams: all based in reality. The great paradox we face, of course, being that what is real is subject to a great degree of relativity.

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The Analyst of the Future

It’s not headline news that the amount of data individuals and firms produce is and will continue to grow exponentially. It’s also not headline news that the cost of storing and accessing this data is increasingly cheaper.

It’s hard to imagine but once upon a time, organizations would discard what could have potentially been information with the ability to uncover critical business insights. This disposal of data was seen as justifiable given the cost of storing it as well as limitations in querying and mining it.

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