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