Mighty Rasing's Blog, page 6
June 22, 2016
Panaglibas a Mapan Mars
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Naglaglagto ni Armstrong iti rabaw ti bulan.
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Naglaglagto met dagiti scientist ken engineer a nangiwanwan
iti spaceship a Rosetta a nagdisso iti cometa 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Iti umuna a daras, nagtayab iti tangatang ti maysa nga SpaceX rocket,
sa nagsubli ket nag-landing iti tumtumpaw a plataporma iti baybay.
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Ti kuna ni Elon Musk, mangitulodton ti SpaceX iti tattao a mapan Mars.
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Inton gumatangak iti tiket a mapan Mars isaganak
dagiti kankanta ti AC/DC, Lin...
June 12, 2016
Swerving after Crossing Ilalim on a Monday Morning
Emerging from Crossing Ilalim, we follow
the light, and the lanes of EDSA.
Along with thousands of cars, buses, heading where
offices are located. Fast-moving
(though unreliable) train drowns
engine sounds, blaring horns
from taxis, buses, AUVs swerving,
navigating,
to the least congested lanes.
But on this Monday morning, EDSA traffic is heavy
as usual. From the front seat
of this passenger van,
billboards obstruct my view of the sky
as we try to cross
the Guadalupe bridge—
Smiling models pr...
April 2, 2016
Mortality and Poetry
“If mortality is our first and last problem, the need to say farewell is continuous. Death is the mother of beauty; poetry is a valediction forbidding mourning.”
– David Lehman, from the Foreword, Best American Poetry 2015
A poem is dangerous…
“A poem is not a straightforward article; is meaning is not self-evident; it can be ambiguous, and if it is, it is dangerous, the more so at a time when the “sensitivities” of special interest groups play a decisive part in limiting free speech on campus and everywhere else.”
– David Lehman, from the Foreword of Best American Poetry 2015.
February 26, 2016
Information Consumes Attention
…in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
– Herbert Simon
February 9, 2016
Breakup in the Time of Virtual Pag-ibig
I’m not really sure if young Filipinos still know the song “Isang Linggong Pag-ibig” by Imelda Papin. But, it accurately describes the kind of whirlwind romance not meant to last.
These days, though, love has moved to cyberspace and Virtual Pag-ibig is everywhere: lovers who have to deal with LDR (Long Distance Relationship) because one of them needs to work abroad; those who fall meet their beloved through online dating sites; maybe that hopeless romantic waiting to captivate a boyfriend (or...
On Living with the Questions
I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your...
February 3, 2016
Youth, the City, Rapid Urbanization, and the Church
People are moving to the cities. It’s not just to the big cities, but also to the small cities in every province or region. Most of the time, it’s the young people–students, professionals, and workers–who are greatly affected by rapid urbanization.
This process of urbanization provides an opportunity for the church to reach out to more people who are moving to the cities. As such, the Church, particularly the United Methodist Church in the Philippines, needs to review its ministries to addres...
February 1, 2016
Notes on Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
by Jeff Sutherland & JJ Sutherland
ISBN: 038534645X
READ: Jan 4, 2016
RATING: 9/10
This is one of the best books I’ve read on Productivity. Together with Personal Kanban, the Scrum methodology is helping reshape the way I do my work and manage my projects.
I’m publishing my notes on this book, and hopefully sometime in the near future, I will be able to describe in full what my productivity system looks like now.
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Chapter 1: The...On Multitasking
People who are most likely to multitask… are those with the most inflated view of their abilities…
– Sonbonmatsu, Strayer, Medeiros-Ward, & Watson, Who Multitasks and Why?
