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Ase Deliri

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28 Nov

You haven't really lived until you practice the beautiful Japanese art of attempting to mend a cherished but broken object using Kintsugi. This falls squarely within the philosophy of Wabi Sabi (the idea of impermanence and change.)

You maybe wondering what this is. It is a poetic distillation of a powerful idea.

You take a beautiful bowl. You break so as to dull its beauty. This moment is a defining point in the history of the object.

You then sit and meticulously repair the object with a mixture of resin and gold. What you end up with is a transformative experience that yields to the idea that the broken lines mended with care add more beauty than before. Repair requires transformation.

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Ase Deliri

@AhsanDeliri

28 Apr

There’s a clown using genetically gifted athletes as an example to propagate some personal preference for a particular exercise. For public health reasons, I just want to say a few things. You are free to obviously follow anyone’s suggestions.

There is a line to draw. If you hear that Einstein spent his mornings walking to clear his mind while attempting to solve problems that’s useful info. It doesn’t mean you’re going to solve the next mystery in physics.

99% of human beings are capable of walking. So the easy sleight of hand is open to use here to trick people. Let’s talk exercise physiology. It involves biomechanics. Joint structure determines function. Human beings have vastly different joint structures.

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@AhsanDeliri

24 Apr

@paulportesi

Lessons from Learning Swift:
So the idea is to inject time via @paulportesi when learning things. Time lets ideas settle into your mind. Read a little, think a bit, try a lot. But of course, we're going to apply this from multiple dimensions.

One of the greatest living actors Anthony Hopkins is rumoured to have the following approach to his craft. He apparently reads the manuscript of any movie he's going to be in about 200 times. That lets him memorize it deep in his bones.

@golang

So what's awesome about the modern languages like @golang and @SwiftLang is that you can actually read the language specs and documents in their entirety without too much strain. I've been spending free time just reading the docs and specifications.

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Ase Deliri

@AhsanDeliri

8 Apr

https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1247343900475490304

Picture this. You're standing at the beach. You see the tides roll out. You see all the animals running inland. You have two options. Follow the animals, or sit there until the Tsunami appears so your need for data can be satisfied.

https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1247343900475490304

The problem with people like this is simple. They'll tell you that models are effective and useful. They forget most models are wrong and some are deadly. You can model a chess game. It's not about as difficult as it gets. I've had 3 people arguing with me about models.

They always introduce chess. So here's the response for that once and for all. Look, chess at some tournament is fine. But imagine you're playing chess in the prison yard. Are the rules of chess the same? Yep, but what happens when you take the queen of your opponent...

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Ase Deliri

@AhsanDeliri

26 Mar

Contextual selling:
This morning at the hospital I had to talk to 3 different nurses to get all the information I needed. Given the pandemic, they were tired, and naturally very much on edge. They didn't want to listen to someone peppering them with questions.

I realized what I was doing but more importantly, I read their emotional reactions. They contextualized me in a frame of reference as the "annoying patient's son". Now in all my years of doing sales, I know a thing or two about turning a situation on a dime.

Here's what you do, you flip the context around and all of a sudden your content becomes very much viewed through a different lens. Sales at heart is about contextually giving the content a home. So as their tone got more irritated with my questions...

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Ase Deliri

@AhsanDeliri

14 Mar

@who

Let's think this through. The @who is a sell out organization because we saw their message 3 weeks ago. Now we got countries that are larger scales of businesses in trouble. I've gotten calls from clinics for massage, chiropractic, and dental services all asking me to come in.

The ones that call me are signalling that they are probably leveraged and not flush with cash. Countries are looking at the problems in their own hospitals and feel like they are in the prisoner's dilemma. They can't give real numbers because of many reasons.

It could be that they don't know. It could be that they don't have it. It could be that they are so financially stretched that they fear economic collapse and are holding their breath hoping things settle down in time.

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