Brian Dys

Author: Brian Dys

  • Reading List: Week 5, March 2022

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    So take some time at the beginning to clarify: what is it that you intend to learn? Just like in traditional Project Management, it’s hard to do something well if you don’t define first what “doing well” looks like.Matthias Frank

  • Tingin Ngiti – Version 8

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    This instrumental version of Tingin Ngiti is nearing completion. What I mean by “completion” is self-satisfaction. Satisfaction that the melodic story has run its full course. Satisfaction that parts of the song have individual subtle flavors to them — this was done by sprinkling and interjecting chords and notes that I wanted to try. Without…

  • Reading List: Week 4, March 2022

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    The more one studies attempted solutions to problems in politics, economics, in art, philosophy, and religion, the more one has the impression of extremely gifted people wearing out their ingenuity at the impossible and futile task of trying to get the water of life into neat and permanent packages.Alan W. Watts

  • Tingin Ngiti

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    Right before I was about to finish New Song 4, my muse already gifted me a new melody to mull over. And here I find myself almost every morning continuing the tune, branching out, going back and forth, shining a light into a path that I am paving at the same time. I’ll be updating…

  • Reading List: Week 3, March 2022

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    When we give from the heart, we do so out of the joy that springs forth whenever we willingly enrich another person’s life. This kind of giving benefits both the giver and the receiver. The receiver enjoys the gift without worrying about the consequences that accompany gifts given out of fear, guilt, shame, or desire…

  • New Song 4

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    I found myself a victim of the hot glue. It was a scene taken out of a comedy show wherein a fool was impatiently pumping a piping hot glue gun. He was doing that not over anything other than his other hand. And then, boom! The nozzle spewed a glob of loogie right on my…

  • Reading List: Week 2, March 2022

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    So for the individual, the benefit of work-from-anywhere hybrid is geographic flexibility, that I can choose where to live. That can be dictated by cost of living, or proximity to family, choice of food, climate or health condition. There can be a thousand reasons why people like a place.Dr Prithwiraj Choudhury

  • Reading List: Week 1, March 2022

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    Become real human-being and treat everyone in your team as your superpower, and not just replaceable individuals. Truly caring about your people means setting real values and anticipating the best.Deby Joevita

  • Reading List: Week 4, February 2022

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    No strategy is better than its execution. … You can go very, very far with world-class execution whereas you will go nowhere, no matter how brilliant your strategy is … so execution really needs to come first because strategy is not something you can navigate if you don’t know how to execute.Frank Slootman

  • Reading List: Week 3, February 2022

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    Tastes change, cultural forces ebb and flow, and the industry needs to ride those waves to survive. It has been said that originality in the truest sense doesn’t exist—that in order to make, you need to take.Nicholas Lam