Poojan (Wagh) Blog

A great song to work (and I suppose work out) to. Energizing: (Note: I haven’t watched the video before; just like the song.)

Great sound:

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When someone asks you a question, and you’ve already told them the answer, their question is redundant.
So is pointing out that you’ve already told them the answer. Just tell ’em the answer again.

If you haven’t heard it already, listen to this:

Ruining It for the Rest of Us | This American Life.

This episode of TAL contains some of the best audio I’ve heard.

They describe a study where they place a “bad apple” in a group “acting either like a jerk, a slacker or a depressive. And within 45 minutes, the rest of the group started behaving like the bad apple.”

Except one group was extremely resilient in the presence of this negativity. Turned out that group had a “golden apple”–a guy who “was particularly a good leader, and what he would do was ask questions, and he would engage all the team members, and he would diffuse conflicts.” (10:18)

I want to be that golden apple.

When someone presents you with a new idea, you have all day to disagree.

When someone presents you with a new idea, you have all week to disagree.

When someone presents you with a new idea, you have all month to disagree.

When someone presents you with a new idea, you have all year to disagree.

You only have one chance to agree. One chance that matters.

People want to be heard. Don’t argue. It’ll be okay.

This song has been a favorite for a long time. Just remembered it when it shuffled onto my Palm Pre:

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I bought this album for Apollo And The Buffalo And Anna Anna Anna Oh!. However, I’m also liking the song Silver Moons.

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AmieStreet is shutting down … and I have $125 in purchase credit there.

Dear Poojan Wagh,

As of September 22, 2010 all AmieStreet.com pages will be forwarded to Amazon.com and you will no longer be able to use AmieStreet.com or any of its services.

The folks at Amazon have been our advisers since they invested in Amie Street almost four years ago, and as a small thank you for your loyalty and support we’re giving you a $5 promotional code* to spend at the Amazon MP3 store. Simply click here and enter this code: 72UV-46HJUK-2YPBSW. The promotional code must be redeemed by December 1, 2010.

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Son of a bitch.

If anyone has any music to recommend it, please do so now. I only have 3 weeks to spend my credit. At least I didn’t pay full-price for it.

Thanks a lot, AmieStreet, for giving me 3 weeks notice. I guess the $5 Amazon MP3 credit ain’t bad, though.

Very catchy tune. One of my favorites, from the album “Team Boo”:

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Thanks to Freud, catharsis theory and psychotherapy became part of psychology. Mental wellness, he reasoned, could be achieved by filtering away impurities in your mind through the siphon of a therapist.

He believed your psyche was poisoned by repressed fears and desires, unresolved arguments and unhealed wounds. The mind formed phobias and obsessions around these bits of mental detritus. You needed to rummage around in there, open up some windows and let some fresh air and sunlight in.

The hydraulic model of anger is just what it sounds like – anger builds up inside the mind until you let off some steam. If you don’t let off this steam, the boiler will burst. If you don’t vent the pressure, someone is going to get a beating.

He was wrong. Read more here: Catharsis « You Are Not So Smart.

Or buy this book.