My Mistake ! -why are these two words so hard to say?
All programmers, when they fix a bug, are implicitly saying exactly that.
And the process of building a piece of software involves the constant fixing of bugs. When I write a piece of code, I write it knowing it has bugs. The first time I use it, I notice things I didn't see when I was visualising the software before it existed.
I remember the first time Wolfgang tried out one of the first versions of Pers-Info DOS I had written in 1982, lots and lots of errors! I was surprised, angry, disappointed, troubled, felt inadequate, all these emotions - but after I calmed down, I fixed as many of the problems as I could. Later, we hired people to write these reports for our programmers. Everyone has to face the reality of what their software looks like to people who use it, who don't know how to avoid all the traps. And Kai now does this so well he can do it for a living.
When I was young there were a lot of foods I didn't like: cabbage, certain fish, paprika, olives, to name a few. When I was 23, I made a conscious decision to try to eat all these things and find out if it was still true. It wasn't.
I tried the same thing, later, with apologizing and admitting mistakes. Like a lot of people, I didn't like to admit mistakes. I think this was the way I was brought up. In my mind, if you admitted a mistake, or even changed your mind, this was a sign that your thinking was wrong. The feeling was, if you were wrong once, you're probably often wrong. So better not admit it.
That was a mistake. I got it wrong in 1972. I'm sorry, my mistake.
Try it some time. See what happens. I bet most people they will respect you more for it.
I know I will. No harm in making a mistake.
We all do it.
by the Rolling Stones, 1974, -ein schönes Lied und schöne alte Fotos!
Am Ende eine tolle Gitarrensolo von Mick Taylor, der anstelle von Rory Gallagher in 1969 dazu kam und allzu früh im Dezember 1974 die Gruppe wieder verließ.
Geboren am 12.03.1922, Jack Kerouac's sportliche Erfolge brachten ihm 1940 bis 1941 ein Stipendium an der Columbia University in New York ein, wo er zusammen mit Kommilitonen wie Allen Ginsberg und William S. Burroughs die Zelle der Beat Generation bildete.
On The Road (1957), auf deutsch Unterwegs war Kerouac's Durchbruch und der Höhepunkt seiner Karriere. Auch in Januar 1957 schrieb Kerouac eine bewegende Brief an seine Ex-Frau Edie, indem stand:
"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die."
Die Filmemacher Sergi Castella und Hector Ferreño haben daraus für Dosnoventa Bikes (in Barcelona) eine wunderschöne Werbefilm gemacht, mit Musik von Pink Floyd und Johnny Cash.
Vielen Dank dafür nach Spanien!
Close your eyes. Call up the face of someone still alive who years ago did something or said something that changed your life for the better. Someone who you never properly thanked; someone you could meet face-to-face next week. Got a face?
Gratitude can make your life happier and more satisfying. When we feel gratitude, we benefit from the pleasant memory of a positive event in our life. Also, when we express our gratitude to others, we strengthen our relationship with them. But sometimes our thank you is said so casually or quickly that it is nearly meaningless. In this exercise … you will have the opportunity to experience what it is like to express your gratitude in a thoughtful, purposeful manner.
Your task is to write a letter of gratitude to this individual and deliver it in person.
The letter should be concrete and about three hundred words: be specific about what she did for you and how it affected your life. Let her know what you are doing now, and mention how you often remember what she did. Make it sing! Once you have written the testimonial, call the person and tell her you’d like to visit her, but be vague about the purpose of the meeting; this exercise is much more fun when it is a surprise. When you meet her, take your time reading your letter.
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Martin Seligman
It’s easy to forget that in general here in Germany, people think of Amazon primarily as an online bookseller.
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| Amazon Homepage 1995 |
Today, as it nears its 20th anniversary, it’s the Everything Store, a company with around $75 billion in annual revenue, a $140 billion market value, and few discernible limits to its growth.
In the past few months alone, it launched a marketplace in India, opened a website to sell high-end art, introduced another Kindle reading device and three tablet computers, made plans to announce a set-top box for televisions, and funded the pilot episodes of more than a dozen TV shows. Amazon’s marketplace hosts the storefronts of countless smaller retailers.
Amazon Web Services handles the computer infrastructure of thousands of technology companies, universities, and government agencies.
When you get older, you slow down. That’s not good, and it’s not something you want to encourage; at least that is my experience. It’s easy enough to convince yourself that you ought to take it easy, but that is not a good strategy. Push yourself to your present limit, and then a bit further next time, and keep that up. The result is good.
So, Mr. Jeff Bezos, my main wish for 2014 is that you don't slow down yet!
..George Best!
Fußballzauber von 1968 musikalisch im irischen Stil festgehalten. (Beckenbauer gut, Pele besser, Best best.)
Und Finbar Furey, bereits in den 60'er aktiv, war mit "The Last Great Lovesong" August 2013 wieder Nr. 1 in der irischen Hitparade.
Dieses Lied fand ich bereits in 1984 sehr schön, meistens im Auto unterwegs zwischen Trossingen und Altenberge:
