Saturday, October 31, 2015

Can you read the writing on the wall

My job offers something that I consider rare.

They give me access to a digital library, and in that library are books, some of which are audio books.

Being a Bibliophile I started listening to them and I am fairly sure that they have changed who I am and what I think as thoughts. I no longer wonder why someone does something, but instead wonder if they have damage to their thinking process, or I wonder if we are not in an experiment as crazy as Stanford 'Prison Experiment'.  I wonder at the lack of creativity in business's and if they shouldn't be looking for  a red-thread in their thinking.

Wonder what I have read this year, in Audio books.



  • 20 Minutes to a Top Performer: Three Fast and Effective Conversations to Motivate Develop and Engage Your Employees
  • A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
  • Anything You Want
  • Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
  • Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others
  • Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
  • Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas
  • Brick by Brick: How Lego Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
  • Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
  • Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done
  • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
  • Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't
  • Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
  • Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration
  • Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
  • Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
  • Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
  • Every Idea is a Good Idea: Be Creative Anytime, Anywhere
  • Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google
  • Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers in the Workplace
  • Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right
  • Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals
  • Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World
  • Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results
  • How to Become a Better Negotiator
  • How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without Manipulation
  • How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
  • How We Decide
  • Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition
  • Innovation You: Four Steps to Becoming New and Improved
  • Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple's Success
  • Jony Ive
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
  • Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier
  • Location Is (Still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How we Search, Shop, and Sell in the Virtual One
  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
  • Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick
  • Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
  • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind
  • Never Make the First Offer (Except When You Should): Wisdom from a Master Dealmaker
  • Nothing Is Impossible: 7 Easy and Effective Steps to Realize Your True Power and Maximize Your Results
  • Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes
  • Poke the Box
  • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
  • Rain
  • Remote: Office Not Required
  • Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business
  • Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead
  • Sexy Little Numbers: How to Grow Your Business Using the Data You Already Have
  • Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People
  • Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone
  • Small Message, Big Impact: The Elevator Speech Effect
  • Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
  • Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others
  • Smart Tribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together
  • Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
  • Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
  • The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research
  • The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Health Care Organizations
  • The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World
  • The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
  • The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
  • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
  • The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
  • The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
  • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
  • The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why it Matters
  • The Lenovo Way: Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal Performance
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
  • The Power of Paradox: Harness the Energy of Competing Ideas to Uncover Radically Innovative Solutions
  • The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
  • The Samsung Way: Transformational Management Strategies from the World Leader in Innovation and Design
  • The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance
  • The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance
  • The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time
  • The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary
  • The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
  • The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think
  • The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
  • The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW
  • Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
  • Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation
  • Think Bigger: Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business
  • Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman 
  • Time Management Made Simple
  • To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
  • Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
  • Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior
  • What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
  • Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future
  • Wired for Thought: How the Brain is Shaping the Future of the Internet
  • Working With Mindfulness
  • Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st Century
  • Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business

Is that it? Only 99 books?  No, there are others that I listened to on YouTube where people have posted Nova Specials, as well as presentations in multiple topic areas and there is also the monthly presentations by select people at Skillsoft.  And that is just what I 'listen' to, and not what I read.  And only this year, 2015.

No wonder I feel alone, I don't have anyone to talk to about the thoughts that race through my head and the reason I would guess is that not many people listen to books or have the range that I do.  Did I make myself a pariah, an 'outlier' marooned in the distance of thought?   What is a reason to hire me?  I think.  what is a reason NOT to hire me? I think.  How can their be the same answers for different questions? Because, I think that thinking can be bad and good and depending on how you look at it, an Elephant can be a wall, a tree, or a snake.  Everything is relative and based on your point of view.






Saturday, March 14, 2015

Lower Blood Pressure


Celery is said to lower Blood Pressure.

Hibiscus Tea is said to lower Blood Pressure.

+ more foods to lower Blood Pressure.


https://www.caring.com/articles/8-foods-that-lower-blood-pressure
http://www.drdavidwilliams.com/foods-that-lower-blood-pressure/
http://www.watercures.org/foods-that-lower-blood-pressure.html

Natural metabolism boosters

Natural metabolism boosters

Cherries, walnuts, gogi berries, almonds, sunflower seeds, cardamon, fennel, coriander and mustard

Melatonin that helps to regulate sleep which is a key factor in helping your body regulate ghrelin and leptin.

Ghrelin - Makes you feel hungry
Leptiin - Makes you feel full



Dr. Mercola says Consuming melatonin stimulates the appearance of "beige" fat, which, similar to brown fat, also helps your body to burn calories rather than store them.

Eating Melatonin rich foods can help block weight gain.
Leptiin

TODO Research 

  • Melatonin ** Brown Fat
  • Ghrelin
  • Leptiin

http://www.immunehealthscience.com/foods-with-melatonin.html
http://learningtoluciddream.com/a-list-of-foods-that-contain-melatonin
http://www.chatelaine.com/health/wellness/how-to-sleep-better-natural-recommendations/

History

While looking through my paper archive, I found an article " An Architectural Trail to Threaded-Code Systems" AKA:forth

And wondered, can I find it again.

google :: an architectural trail to threaded code systems







And I found the article.

So, should I keep the paper version of the article, when I have access to a searchable PDF that I can read at anytime...


http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/Forth_Kogge.pdf