No ZERO days!

The single best productivity tip I ever received: No ZERO days. 

A "zero" day is when you don't do anything towards your target/plan/goal.

Take a vow to yourself: From today, from this moment onwards, you will live in a NON-ZERO system.

Feeling too tired to study? Read just one page of chapter. Don't have time to exercise? Do just one pushup.  But DO it.

Success doesn't come in a single day;  it's a result of long string of CONSISTENT NON ZERO days. 

Fibonacci series

I was leafing through a small textbook about Fibonacci sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13, 21, 34, 55… ) and its many practical applications. For example, you can quickly do an approximate conversion between miles and kilometres. 

Each number in kilometres is approximately equal its preceding number in Miles. Ex: 5 kms approximately equals 3 miles, 8 kms = 5 miles, 13 kms = 8 miles and so on. 

And by the way, Fibonacci series was originally discovered in India, possibly by Pingala or Virahanka.

The HenryMan List - Patrick McLean

Do the right thing. Always, everywhere, without exceptions. Know that rules aren't always the right thing. Throwing a punch and being polite may seem contradictory. They are not. There are occasions when throwing a punch is polite and standing inactive is the rudest thing you can do. 

For more such crisp advice, read: Patrick McLean @ 

http://www.theseanachai.com/2009/02/19/the-henryman-list/

Dictionary of numbers

Just found a wonderful extension for Google Chrome: Dictionary of numbers.

It searches the text in your web browser for numbers and provides context to help you understand the numbers better.

For example, if a web page contains “318 million people”, it says

 

318 million people [≈ the population of the United States]

http://www.dictionaryofnumbers.com/

Microsoft Converter

Since last couple of days, I have got quite addicted to an app called Microsoft Converter. It has 20 categories (area, speed, energy, currency, time, etc.) and each category has 10 units within which you can do conversions. 

Thanks to this app, now when am gently cruising at 60 kmph, I know am travelling at 0.05 Mach (speed of sound) or, that distance from home to office (2km) is equal to 1.34x10^-8 AU (distance between Sun and Earth).