Tales to Inform, Inspire, and Motivate
Today’s Tale of Awesomeness is actually a series of five smaller tales. They are all from the stories of Nasruddin or Nasreddin Hodja. Who? The real Nasruddin was a Seljuk Turk, a witty and satirical Sufi who was full of stories and used anecdotes to teach his words of wisdom. If you’re not from the …
109 years ago today, the world changed. In the fall of 1908, the world’s first “automobile for the masses” rolled off the assembly lines ready for the public. The Ford Motor Company’s Model-T debuted to the world. And it went on to radically change, for good or ill, not just the way humanity went from …
This week, Canada elected its first leader of a major political party that hails from an ethnic minority. His name is Jagmeet Singh and he became the first leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. This by itself is a remarkable development. Especially given the political climate we are in now, and the highly …
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Awesomeness comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s a monumental Pyramid sized thing. Other times it’s tiny, microscopic like a transistor. Sometimes it’s so obvious and in-your-face that you’d notice it even if you were blind. Other times, it’s subtle, nigh imperceptible but to the most discerning and observant. The following story is of …
Awesomeness is often associated with being great something. Being a master of some topic, field, or domain. But how do we master something? Often the first step to being great at something is to learn as much and as well as possible. And this usually means learning from some source – whether that is a …
War is a terrible business. But every once in a while, you hear stories of actual humanity poking through the killing and dying. Sometimes you hear it from the civilians trapped by war. Other times the stories come from the combatants. In the middle ages we called such honorable behavior chivalry. As warfare moved away …
Late last year, a movie opened called “Hidden Figures” that piqued my interest. I had not heard of the story portrayed in the movie before, but the more I found out about it, the more I became convinced that this was an amazing story that needed to be told. I say this not just because …