5 Point Saturdays – 5 Sep 2020

Hi All!

Here is your weekly dose of “5 Point Saturdays,” interesting tidbits from what I have been Reading: Latest reviews, Books, Weekly challenges, Learning Hacks, and More!

Point 1 – What I am reading?

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph
Talking to my Daughter – A brief history of capitalism

Secrets of Sand hill road – Venture capital and how to get it

Point 2 – The Coffee Bean Story about resilience. 

I heard this during my morning's meditation session
and it stayed with me for long after.
There is a young lady and she is having many kinds
of challenges in her life. She comes to her mother to
complain about it. Her mother just smiles and leads
her to the kitchen. She puts three pots of water and
starts boiling them and her daughter is wondering
what’s going on. In one she puts carrots, in another
she adds eggs and in the third she adds coffee
beans. And as the water comes to a boil, she removes each
of those three vessels and as it cools down she asks
her daughter to examine the three vessels.
The daughter finds that the carrots have become
very soft, the eggs have become quite hard and
the water with the coffee has gotten colored.
She turns and asks her mother, ‘ What is this.
What are you trying to teach me?’ The mother smiles and says, ‘the carrots went in...
Read more here -
The Coffee Bean Attitude to Resilience

Point 3 – Quote that I bookmarked

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

 

Point 4 – Latest video review on the block!

Point 5 – What I am listening to

 

My dad’s parents were from a teensy town near Palakkad.

Raised in Bangalore, I never really learnt to speak fluent Malayalam, but I have lovely memories of watching Malayalam movies with him on weekends…

Memories that I still cherish.

I recently heard this brilliant earworm of a song featuring the lush landscapes of Kerala and can’t seem to stop listening to it. Give it a listen and let me know how you like it!

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