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The new table goes on for miles and miles :) Thank you mummy! From me and my broken back :)

Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day. — Antonia Perdu

There is absolutely nothing I can say about the Personal MBA that hasn’t been said. I cheat and present Derek Sivers’ notes on the book. But here’s his point about the book as a whole … Wow. A masterpiece. This is now the one “START HERE” book I’ll be recommending to everybody interested in business. An amazing overview of everything you need to know. Covers all the basics, minus buzz-words and fluff. Look at my notes for an example, but read the whole book. One of the most inspiring things I’ve read in years. Want proof? I asked the author to be my coach/mentor afterwards. It’s that good. ...

In geometry, a cupola is a solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles. Well … sod that. In real life, a cupola is sheer poetry!

“Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.” — El Sabio Also, travel and visit old towns and listen to the classics! — Me

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? #####That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.” — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha ...