Makes for a tasty pre dinner, stephanie added some cheese and grapes to this and we completed the dinner.
This book is a decent listen. I think it has some good points on competition driving innovation for the west vs. the east. It also points out that consumerism is one of the big factors that made capitalism the dominating force that it is today. It makes some broad strokes about what is likely to happen with the Muslim world growing at the rate that it is and China expanding at the rate that it is leading to the West being overtaken. I see this as shortsighted in that it is more likely that China will fully integrate into the West and begin to dominate it instead of overturning it. The Muslim issue is something that will be toppled by the spread of information. The strongholds of the Muslim world are those parts that are lacking in information, and they will be liberalized in world view once information permeates their societies. As something pointed out in ‘What Would Google Do?’: any group based on the control and secrecy of information will be overtaken by the spread of information. I see the future to be a more integrated world based around an internet/information nation that isn’t segmented into Chinese, Muslim, Western, or American.
Having a late lunch with pumpkin bolani eggs tomato sauce and sweet jalapeno. Black tea to drink
The jasmine milk tea is delicious
and tea era is a great little shop. I should go here more often
I am sitting and doing some fun work by Shoreline Lake. It is a lovely day, and I’m also enjoying listening to audiobooks while making my prisoner’s dilema item.
We went to Shezan for Nick’s Birthday Dinner. It was fantastic and we had soooo much to eat. All of the food was amazing!
For the 7 of us it was less than $100 total. This is by far my favorite restaurant.
A really good beer at Esther’s German Bakery, definitely something I’d want to have again.
This is a very nice little bakery that always sets up a booth at the palo alto farmers market. They have amazing pretzel bread.
This book points out something i’ve been trying to do for a while. Doing things purposefully. The book states that doing purposeful practice is the way to become great at something. As the title is concerned it would be something along the lines of “Talent is not innate, but instilled by hard and purposeful work.” I am going to try doing things even more purposefully and trying to determine what practice would look like. I may start an analysis or creation of games group at work to get the best to help me be better.
It's an Exciting World 