Book summary

The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple—he’s a low-level manager, she’s a beautician—whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, yet who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids through college, and retire at 55 with more than $1 million in savings. Through their story you’ll learn the surprising fact that you cannot get rich with a budget! You have to have a plan to pay yourself first that is totally automatic, a plan that will automatically secure your future and pay for your present.
 
What makes The Automatic Millionaire unique:
 
·        You don’t need a budget
·        You don’t need willpower
·        You don’t need to make a lot of money
·        You don’t need to be that interested in money
·        You can set up the plan in an hour
 

by Joseph Malins (1895)

-a poem about prevention -

'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed,

though to walk near its crest was so pleasant;

but over its terrible edge there had slipped

a duke and full many a peasant.

So the people said something would have to be done,

but their projects did not at all tally;

some said, 'Put a fence 'round the edge of the cliff, '

some, 'An ambulance down in the valley.'

But the cry for the ambulance carried the day,

for it spread through the neighboring city;

a fence may be useful or not, it is true,

but each heart became full of pity

for those who slipped over the dangerous cliff;

And the dwellers in highway and alley

gave pounds and gave pence, not to put up a fence,

but an ambulance down in the valley.

'For the cliff is all right, if your careful, ' they said,

'and if folks even slip and are dropping,

it isn't the slipping that hurts them so much

as the shock down below when they're stopping.'

So day after day, as these mishaps occurred,

quick forth would those rescuers sally

to pick up the victims who fell off the cliff,

with their ambulance down in the valley.

A brief, no fluff, summary of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.

What is “GTD”?

Based on https://hamberg.no/gtd

GTD—or “Getting things done”—is a framework for organizing and tracking your tasks and projects. Its aim is a bit higher than just “getting things done”, though. (It should have been called “Getting things done in a much better way than just letting things happen, which often turns out not to be very cool at all”.) Its aim is to make you have 100% trust in a system for collecting tasks, ideas, and projects—both vague things like “invent greatest thing ever” and concrete things like “call Ada 25 August to discuss conference schedule”. Everything!

Sound like all other run-of-the-mill to-do list systems, you say? Well in many ways it is, but there is more to it, and it’s really simple. Promise! So please read on.

One of the basic assumptions of GTD is that you are dumb—or, rather, that your subconsciousness is quite dumb when it comes to thinking about things you should do. For example knowing you need to get your watch repaired, but instead of reminding you when you actually bike past the watch store, it implants an incessant feeling of “I need to remember … something” in your brain.

Jessica Kerr put it perfectly:

James Lawrence, best known as the “Iron Cowboy", was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Married to Sunny who is the partner in their journey, is also a proud father of five wonderful kids: his daughters, Lucy, Lily, Daisy and Dolly, and his son, Quinn. On June 6, 2015, James attempted to complete 50 Ironman Triathlons in 50 consecutive days across all 50 U.S. States.

He trained knowing that he and his family would be moving from state to state and race to race in an RV, with little time to pick up or prepare meals along the way so he had to be sure his body was prepared to get through each race on “regular” food. He invited people in every state to join him on the last leg of the marathon, and most dinners and bike sandwiches were supplied by coordinators in each city. Lawrence didn’t have the luxury of relying on a highly specialized diet when so much of what he ate was out of his hands.

There is one distinctly human competitive advantage: that is human creativity. This session is tailored to give you an expert perspective on the new science of ‘Super Creativity’ to generate, evaluate, develop and implement ideas quickly.

Speaker: James Taylor, Business Creativity, Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Expert

1. God was not surprised by or unprepared for the pandemic.

2. Come follow me home centered gospel learning

3. Ministering in a higher and holier way, more than just home visits every month

4. Prophets council to prepare physically and spiritually.

5. Things have slowed down.

6. Bigger focus on families

7. Time to study the gospel more.

8. Career changes

9. Video conference technology, zoom, webcams, internet, social media

10. Temple renovations like Salt Lake, St George, Church Office Plaza while visitors not allowed

11. Employees work from home spend more time with family, less time at office or commuting. Parents at home during lunch

12. Missionaries allowed to call home every week to connect with family, share spiritual experiences.

13. Missionaries given tablets then smart phones so they can run apps like Google hang outs, zoom

14. Missionary work forced to change to new and better methods, do more on line, on the phones with video conference, not knocking doors. Baptisms are up.

15. Young men activities separated from Boy Scouts, merit badges, Scout camps.

16. Women were allowed to get endowed without serving missions, thus allowing sealings now.

17. Starting sifting process.

18. Some less actives are joining zoom church.

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. 

• Clear Cached Memory on Ubuntu

  Clear Cached Memory on Ubuntu based distributions, and also display memory status. Please do not use this on a production machine unless you really really know what you are doing. Echo 3 is a kinder way of purging the memory, you can also use 'echo 2' or 'echo 1' if #1 You know what you are doing, and #2 refer to number 1 :-)

  sudo free && sync && sudo echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

• Check a directory of PNG files for errors

Terminus is an old-school-style text adventure to help learn Linux commands and file navigation.

Linux Survival is a free interactive online Linux tutorial. It includes a Linux console simulator where you can type commands and see the results.