Prince Mishra

  Few things can be as antithetical to sex as thought", says Alain de Botton at one point in this book, the main point of which is to philosophize about romance. That's a formidable challenge, but de-Botton manages to carry it off. A steamy love story unfolds as the author is ruminating on various views on beauty from Kant to Proust, computations of probability that two people might meet on an aircraft, Woody Allen in  Annie Hall , and so forth. In 1822, Stendhal wrote the tract, "On Love", in which he analyzes romantic passion and particularly the process by which positive feelings about a person get accentuated - what he calls "crystallization" - a term from a visit to a salt mine. This is the model for de Botton's more modern, and more fulfilled excursions into romance (Stendahl's was an unrequited love, see below). To establish the philosophic underpinnings of the book, it is written in numbered paragraphs, though no one ever needs to refer to a...

HIGH OUTPUT MANAGEMENT On Organizational Output: (Chapter 1) —  Everything is process . Whether you’re compiling code, hiring staff, or making breakfast, everything can be modeled as a repeatable production process. Understanding the elements of production — inputs, outputs, timing, limiting steps, quality controls, variability — lets us create and improve the “machinery” needed to fulfill our organizational goals. We all aim to achieve the same thing: high quality results in less time with least waste. (Chapter 2) —  Focus on vital, measurable indicators of output . The operations of an organization are like a “black box” in that you can’t see everything that’s happening on a daily basis. Indicators let you “cut holes” in the black box to get a view on what the output of the organization might be in future. Train your team to select a small number of objective, quantifiable measures of  output , with leading and trending indicators, that can be reviewed daily and help tr...

“Your ‘frog’ is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don’t do something about it.” “The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.” “Continually remind yourself that one of the most important decisions you make each day is what you will do immediately and what you will do later if you do it at all.” “The second rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.” “The key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major task first thing each morning.” 1. Set the Table “Think on paper.” “One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.” “Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your mos...

Preliminary operations Before installing SteamCMD, make sure that lib32gcc1 package is  on the server. To install this package, type: $ sudo apt-get install lib32gcc1 Downloading and installing SteamCMD Now everything is ready to install SteamCMD.   However, it is not recommended to do so as a root user since if a problem arises, it could interfere with the entire system.  To proceed, just create a new dedicated user.  To do so, type: $ sudo useradd -m steam Then switch to the new user by typing:  $ su - steam To have an installation path, create a new directory by writing: $ mkdir ~/Steam && cd ~/Steam  As a result, all the files will be installed in the new directory ~/Steam Now download the latest version of SteamCMD from the Valve server: $ wget https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz The file you have  just downloaded is a package .tar that you will need to unpack before running. To unzip the file write: $ t...