Wisdom versus Knowledge

Category: Life lessons

  • Measuring Your Success

    How do you define success? When you look back on your life, how do you measure if you’ve achieved some degree of success? I was watching a webcast with Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, entitled “I’m 80 and I wasted 25 years of my life. Don’t make my mistake. – Howard…

  • Losing Someone Twice (STUB)

    We use the phrase “losing a parent” when they pass away, but often we lose them years earlier, due to dementia. By the time they pass away, you’ve already lost them for many years. Random thoughts:

  • The Price You Pay

    One of the greatest tech innovation of our time is Shazam, a smartphone app that listens to a song, and in seconds gives you its details. (Nobel committee are you paying attention? Try it sometime!) Anyway, I was watching an episode of the TV show “Landman“, when they played a song that struck me as…

  • Everything has a Price (STUB)

  • If you love what you do, you win

    I was listening to an interview with Mike Rowe, the TV host of “Dirty Jobs” fame. He was being interviewed for his book “The way I heard it“, and towards the end of the interview, he’s asked a series of questions the host asks all interviewees. The last question stood out for me, “One piece…

  • Adam’s Secret (draft)

    As Elie Wiesel famously wrote: “According to Jewish tradition, creation did not end with man, it began with him. When He created man, God gave him a secret – and that secret was not how to begin, but how to begin again.” (Messengers of God, p. 32)