I will never forget on 2011 when I read this line while cashing a check: “I’m obsessively game oriented, and that’s my – it’s not a problem, it’s just a driver.”
I don’t know if what he has done is ethically good or not. CFA Standars should apply to examine this case. What I want to emphasize is his willingness to abandon something he has been building for decades. Other people would die trying to make it work, he decided create himself again with or without everybody’s approval.
Rabbinical interpretation could be extrapolated: “It is easier to a bond pundit leave his own company than a selfishly obsessed man accept his entrance in the Kingdom of God”.
Update on Nov 3rd: Look at his office:
I guess 1/4 of his effort is dedicated to written communication while the rest is invested in analyzing markets. What a beauty.
Fotografías tomadas aleatoriamente en una tarde de viernes. Una mamá corriendo con su bebé para cachar el bus. Un policía municipal empujando a un discapacitado.
Busco aliados con iphone iOS 8 para hacer un mega mix de esta musica abajo detallada con Time Lapses de Guate. La idea es imitar este mix de La ciudad de Nueva York:
Por ejemplo yo tengo este pero está medio chafa:
La Música es rock nacional – entre otras canciones- producida en Jazz a beneficio de la fundación Margarita Tejada.
Parametros:
1) time lapse de 15 segundos. O sea que si el lapso es de 5 segundos, tomaría entre 30 a 40 minutos.
2) debe grabarse horizontalmente, únicamente. Y en Time Lapse únicamente, con la camara original del iPhone 5 o superior.
3) me evian el video y lo agrego. Pondré la fuente y detalles como:
Dueño del video
Lugar donde fue tomado
Hora y fecha
4) Si resultara exitoso, el video en YouTube, sería publicidad turistica de Guate y los beneficios podrían ir a la fundaciòn Margarita Tejada por ser quien empujò esa música en Jazz.
5) la musica dura 166 minutos. O sea que se necesitarían mínimo 664 videos independientes.
6) el video sería buena publicidad para mantener en el Aeropuerto, elevadores, otros.
7) el video sería un buen incentivador de ciudadanía y patriotismo “en buena onda”.
8) Qué tal si ofrecemos beneficios por cada video. A Dolar cada video, sale como Q6k la produccion. Podría ser un vale por un café, u otro tipo de trueque.
9) ¿Alguien ha hecho esto ya? Aquí la idea es montar un collage inimitable por la cantidad y diversidad de videos.
In 1995 Clyde King ─special adviser to George Steinbrenner, near the end of sprin training suggested sending Derek Jeter to the minors to get some seasoning. “He is not ready to play”, said Clyde King. What Torre found while watching Derek Jeter on TV, before meeting him, “I’m going to get an opportunity to get the job”; he was taking nothing for granted, not like he was inheriting the job.
This post is for the the LUG Guatemala (Lego User Group Guatemala) and it’s quick share of Lego in my life.
Genesis
It was the Christmas eve between 1990 and 1992 when I was about six years old. As a matter of Christmas present I was expecting anything but a Lego set. My dream obsession was a 4×4 with wireless remote control, “the Fast Track”, or maybe another [hard to destroy] Tonka. Instead my parents surprised me with a box full of *broken* pieces of plastic that, once unwrapped, meant to be putted together by some boring individual. I felt frustrated and sadly mad. I was ready to throw a crying and yelling event but my older sister, Any, smartly approached me and advised at my ear: “look, there’s a plane, you only have to build it and then play forever with it”. It was the Lego Airport 6396.
Fast Forward
Around 20 Christmas and hundreds of hundreds of pieces later, I was less than ~two months married on December 2011. With the approval from my wife, I swapped some of the wedding gifts [Cemaco] in exchange for the below exhibited Lego Technic set; BTW I would like to apologize to the invitees for trading part of your wedding presents for toys; it was worth it, though:
Click the pictures for bigger look.
This nice Technic set took me the whole Christmas eve and quite a share of Christmas day; I would say between eight to twelve effective hours. Among the opportunity costs of building this nice set it’s one the firsts marital arguings with my beloved wife; probably because I only took brakes to eat [and quickly] and blunt responses to any matter not being Lego.
Some interesting topics:
I have heard that the model has been discontinued, which should increase the value of that asset.
It came incomplete, had to ask for pieces to headquarters and took about one month to receive the pieces, free.
I have seen some absolutely incredible adjustments including a remote control from Pro builders. Take a look:
If I wouldn’t have to work, I would devote a good chunk of my time to collect and build all Technic sets which would cost me the same if I would purchase a nice pre-owned Range Rover ( my only favorite car).
Among other creations with Lego, this year I got creative by imitation:
I built about 6 different models mainly because shortage of repeated pieces. I like to think that it was maybe a 3-nights rush and then forgot about it. It was a challenge given the company of my little boy ~1.5 years old, avoiding noise while he was asleep as well protecting the choking hazard when he was awake.
It keeps the car keys in the same place optimizing departure time.
Being a Christian Catholic I created my own cross crucifix. Look at my Lego Technic Cross. For Christians this symbol suppose to be a wake-up gadget; an spiritual wake-up that is.
I think it’s only me who understands what this yellow thing is; I try to explain that it resembles a modern art approach to the crucifixion :
Yellow as any warning sign. It should say “INRI” in the top panel. Avid reader can see there is no Christ: well they say he is alive so there’s no point to stumble in how was he murdered, instead better to think why did he allow that and what that means to what I am doing when I look at it. Pieces were part of a fork lifter 8045 (http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-4567589-TECHNIC-Telehandler-8045/dp/B002RL7WHE) gifted from my Fiance on her trip from Argentina (actually it was the non-solicited pay for doing her tax bill while she was out of the Country).
Taking Lego Beyond Plastic Pieces
Lego is a great analogy to life.
One’s life is composed of events and acts that resemble pieces to build. One can react madly rejecting the pieces or can manipulate the pieces to build a new thing. It’s a “challenge by choice”. Although life doesn’t bring instructions like Lego sets, one can use some brains to structure as such.
Lego is quite a picture of the difference between homo sapiens [humans] to other animals, sensitive only animals. Rational animal like we humans, people, take pride of enjoying our sensitivity as well as controlling all our environment like a lego set requiring ~95 years to build. They say that people will never be like other animals, instead, we can only be worst or better. [Vatican Council II it’s a massive reference to this view of life].
Today’s reality of self historic identity and modern view of life is benefiting the Lego as a business; it’s demand is on the rise and the company has been audacious in taking advantage of the situation: take a snapshot at the financials for the 1st half of 2014 here.
I thank my family for driving my imagination towards Lego. My first and current family.
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