Thursday, August 07, 2014

Ном бол ертөнцийг харах цонх

"When someone who badly needs something finds it, it isn’t an accident that brings it his way, but he himself, his own desire and necessity lead him to it." H.H

Ойрд ч нээх олон ном сонин уншиж чадсангүй. Гэхдээ олон сайхан залуучуудтай уулзаж, тэдэнд өөрийн бодол, амьдралын туршлагаа харамгүй хуваалцах олон завшаан тохиолдлоо. Нэг уулзалтан дээр "Та ер нь яах гэж ном уншдаг юм бэ" гэсэн асуулттай тулгарсан боловч тухай үедээ өөрөө өөрөөсөө асууж байгаагүй тул арай өөр хариулт өгч мултрав. Франц-н алдарт философич Jean Paul Satre-с нэг удаа тэгж асуухад Jean Paul Satre "би энэ их номыг яагаад уншаад байна вэ гэхээр нэг л өдөр би дэлхийг эзлэх болно" гэж хэлж байсан юм гэнэ лээ. Миний ч дэлхийг эзлэх гэж юу байхав, гэхдээ нэгэн өдөр хүсэж, тэмүүлж өөрийн эрхгүй зүтгэж байсан зүйлдээ хүрэхэд минь миний үзсэн харсан, бодож тунгаасан бүр надад тус болохоос гадна надаас ухаантай нь миний бодож байгааг өмнө бодсон бол тэр талаар юу гэж дүгнэсэн, ямар өнцгөөс харсан, яаж хэрэгжүүлсэн гээд олон талын мянган нөхцлүүдийг миний оюун ухаан хүрэхээргүй хэмжээнд дэлгээд тавьчихсан бол тэр бүгдийг олж уншаад, шингээж авах нь миний үүрэг гэж боддог юм. Зөвхөн ингэж чадсанаар эдгээрийг бодож боловсруулсан агуу сэтгэгчидийн мөрөн дээр нь гарч зогсоод, тэр өндөрлөгөөс цааш юу оршиж байгааг олж харч, хоншоор хүрвэл өөрийн хэмжээнд бодож боловсруулаад дараачийн үедээ өвлүүлэн өгөх боломж бүрдэж, улмаар миний мөрөн дээр дараачийн үе чинь зогсох боломжийг олгож байгаа юм.
Мэдээж хүн болгон над шиг бодох албагүй л дээ, гэхдээ өнөөдөр сэтгэл дотроо том амбици нууцхан өвөртлөөд ирээдүйд энэ улс орныг манлайлахдаа манлайлаад, чирэхдээ чирээд, чирүүлэхдээ чирэгдээд явна гэж төсөөлж байгаа залуучууд бүр өөрсдийн хүсэл зоригоос гадна тэр хүсэл зорилго нэг өдөр биелэлээ гэхэд ямар том үүрэг хариуцлага хамт ирдэг болохыг эртнээс мэдэрч, ямар өндөр дарамт шахалт дагалддагийг гадарлаж байвал цаг хугацааг алдалгүй ашиглаж, бие сэтгэл болон оюун ухаанаа эрүүл саруул, хурдан шаламгай байлгаснаар ирсэн хариуцлага, нэмэгдэх дарамт бүрийг нэр төртэйгөөр үүрэх болов уу гэж мунхаг би дотроо бодож явдаг билээ.

Ном уншихдаа гол нь биш, харин тэр дотроос ямар утга санааг ойлгож авах вэ, өөрийн өмнө бодож байсантай хэр төстэй, эсвэл огт шинэ зүйл байвал энэ бүгд ямар алдаатай, ололттой гэдгийг анхан шатны түвшинд ч гэсэн бодож унших гэж би оролддог. Одоо харин уншсан зүйл бүгдийг сайхан базаад өөрийн ерөнхий ойлголтын ертөнцийг бүтээн босгоход ашигладаг болчихоод байна. Өнөөдрийн энэ өндөрлөгөөс харахад ирээдүйн зам их урт, их өндөр байгаад энэ бие минь эмээж байгаа боловч, өнгөрсөнд гаргасан ололт амжилт бүр намайг урагш түлхэх эрч хүч болж, тавьсан зорилт маань уртаас татах хүч болж байгаагийн үндсэн дээр л зогсолтгүй хөдлөж, хөдөлмөрлөж байна.

Аливаа зүйлийг уншихдаа бас эхнээсээ зөв сууриа тавьбал толгой эргэж цаг алддаггүй юм болов уу гэж бодсон. Яг үүнийг хэрхэн хялбар тайлбарлахаа сайн мэдэхгүй байна. Дараа сайн бодож байгаад тайлбарлая даа.

书的列表 
March.2012 to July.2014

1Q84 by Hariuki Murikami
Demian by Hermann Hesse
In Line Behind a Billion People by Damien Ma
Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos
The rise of the dragon by Kerry Brown
Restructuring the Chinese Economy by Michael Pettis
1 Hr china by Jeffrey Towson
China Airborne by James Fallows
Flash boys by Michael Lewis
Impact equation by Chris Brogan
The long march by Sun Shuyun
Tiger trap by David wise
Making of the president by Theodore White
China 3.0 by Michael Anti
The mongol invation of japan by Stephen Turnbull
Coal: a human history by Barbara Freese
The young hitler i knew by August Kubizek
The passage of power by Robert Caro
Шатрын өрөг дэх Монгол, Батчимэг
The dragon's gift by Deborah Brautigam
Renegade: the making of the president by Richard Wolffe
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
The new machiavelli by Jonathan Powell
Reinventing you by Dorie Clark
The gamble: choice adn change in the 2012 presidential election by John Sides
Why Romney lost by David Frum
The twitter effect by Eric Bieller
The new digital age by Eric Schmidt
Why nations fail by Daron Acemoglu
THe places in between by Rory Stewart
The rise and fall of the house of Bo by John Garnaut
Rumsfelds' Rules by Donald Rumsfeld
Known and Unknown: A memoir by Donald Rumsfeld
The unquiet american: Richard Holbrooke in the world by Derek Chollet
Invisible armies by Max Boot
My beloved world by Sonia Sotomayor
Revolution 1989: the fall of the soviet empire by Victor Sebestyen
The rise of china vs the logic of strategy by Edward Luttwak
Obama and China's rise by Jeffrey Bader
Death by China by Peter Navarro
The Party: the secret world of China's communist rulers by Richard McGregor
Power over people: the classical and modern political theory by Dennis Dalton
Subliminal: how your unconscious mind rules over your behavior
Willpower: rediscovering the greatest human strength
Dancing in the glory of monsters
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of china
George F Kennan: an american life
Power of habit by CHarles Duhigg
Plan B 2.0 Rescuing a planet under stress by Lester Brown
China inc. by Ted Fishman





Monday, March 05, 2012


最近我不忙,所以看了很多书,很多电影。不过我的课已经开始了现在应该集中记住生词。对我来说,记住生词很重要也是锻炼。如果我不锻炼的话我感觉不舒服。原因是在大学我习惯每天锻炼。
这个月我发现了我能修理我看的书里数据。下一次放在这边吧。

Ахуй орчлон хэдий орших хүртэл
Амьтан ургамал төдий чинээ амьдрах болохоор
Аяа би бээр тэр луга адил оршиж
Амьтаны зовлонг амирлуулах болтугай!

我看过的电影
Movies
天下无双
Global public square by Fareed Zakaria (every series Sep.2009 till Mar.2012)
X-man
阴谋 (美国)
未来战警
Crazy Heart
Real Steel
Rio
唐山大地震
英雄
The killer inside me
狙击精英
Battle for LA
武侠
Steam boy
Columbiana
Cowboys and aliens
Hangover 2
Warrior
Contagion
Hitch
Black Hawk Down
Ben X
When.Harry.Met.Sally.1989.720p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE
Дээрэмчин
Where wild things are
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Friends with Benefits 2011
Green Lantern
ONCE 2006
午夜巴黎
天地英雄
画皮
tinker,tailor,soldier,spy
Limitless 2011
Chaki chan One movie
Moneyball
Double
The Prize: Oil, money and power Series 1-8
Rio
Ted Talks Drew Dudley: Everyday leadership
Amelie
Amadeus (1984)
War horse
Hugo

看过的书
Mountains beyond mountains
A Jane Austen education
Half the sky by Nicolas Kristof
The prize: Epic quest for oil, money and power
Quiet: by Susan Cain
Mao’s Great Famine
The rise and fall of Al-Qaeda

Friday, March 02, 2012

Quiet by Susan Cain, Noise by Tony Robbins and much more


Couple days ago I got the book titled “Quiet: The power of introverts in the world that can’t stop talking”. But I cannot remember where I got the reference of the book. Nevertheless I cruised through it for two days while thinking the relevance of the content in life. Along the way, Susan Cain mentions Tony Robbins and I checked out who he was online. That led me to watch a Ted talks which he gave about five years ago. Seems very interesting guy with lot of, I mean lot of energy which is almost boiling over his mouth as he talks. In his Ted talk video Tony asks “how do you make people to do something that are beyond themselves”? I would say it is a ten thousand dollar question. If I knew the answer, I probably would not be where I am now – searching in the woods. Right, I guess every great leader wants to know how to do that and how to make it work. Knowing how alone does not cut it. Zhuge Liang once said “the strategy is the mere surface, while its execution is its essence”. I remember reading somewhere that it is much better to have a 100 percent execution on the so-so plan than 50 percent execution on a good one. I guess it will take much more understanding of human psyche along the way to wisdom to master the true skill.
In Tony’s Ted talks, he gave few points worth mentioning here:

- make people feel what it means to contribute and what it means to be a part of bigger picture than just stand by themselves.
- psychological strength that determines the decisions, be a better man than the man you are right now
- The two primary patterns observed on the invisible forces that shape us:
o the state: physical/psychological state shapes us in the moment (short term)
o our model of the world shapes us in the long term
- you must grow. We all know the answer here. If you don't grow, you're what? If a relationship's not growing, if a business is not growing, if you're not growing, it doesn't matter how much money you have, how many friends you have, how many people love you, you feel like hell. And the reason we grow, I believe, is so we have something to give of value.

Anyway, that was Tony Robbins and a good folk representing the extreme extroverts out there. Now Susan Cain was saying that extroverts draw energy from talking with people, and going out while introverts draw energy from thinking or discussing ideas that’s much more to them. There were some statements like USA was oriented towards extroverts and Asians (Chinese and Japanese) towards introverts. On average these statements might ring true, but that’s average – I mean cannot really explain the case by case scenarios. When I interact with Chinese I find most of them extroverts. The most Chinese I interact and communicate are mostly service people (service agents, real state agents, guard, teachers, shop owners etc), but when I see them in halls, in metro stations and theatres, I think most of them are introverts. There is definitely a different dynamic going on between these people than what I have experienced myself in states. Much different! The ideals are different too. Look at the leaders, what they try to convey as virtue. If one speaks a lot among these leaders, I presume they would be received as someone who has nothing worth talking about (that’s why talk BS) or someone who’s strategic indicator went broke and thus speaks non-stop. I exaggerated in saying it but half of the statement is true. In the Romance of Three Kingdoms (one of the 4 famous Chinese stories), the virtue of extroverts are not highly recommended, but the virtues of the introvert is praised highly. The legend itself is a full of strategy and those who are extroverts usually does not do well. Of course, it is a story also life on earth is not simple as putting people into two groups namely extroverts and introverts. After all there more factors than just the personality trait. Nevertheless, it is a good factor to keep in mind when judging people and studying them. These personality traits can help us to find the weakness and strength of our future enemies as well as partners. So life goes on.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

我的电影和书的列表: 八月到十二月


我刚才删除了我的记录。很生气也很遗憾。基辛格也有别的作家写的书上写的东西都失去了。我怎么办?我找了如果有别的办法所以我发现怎么恢复我的数据。看来这样的办法没有。基辛格的一本书叫《》上我写了很多事儿关中国政府的政策。不过现在都消失了。

<一 首 诗> by Li Bai
床 前 明 月 光
疑是 地 上 霜
举 头 望 明 月
低 头 思 故 乡

看过的电影的列表
Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides (2011)
Rango
True Legend
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Megamind
Gentleman prefers blondes 1953
Cat Ballou 1965
Blue Kite
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Sniper
The legend of 1900
The revolutionary road
White Elephant
Rise of the planet of apes
Rio
Let me in
Ponyo
Last Airbender
Restrepo
Bank job
9 Rota
Quantum of Solace
Adjustment Bureau
The Reader
SHooter
Seraphim Falls
Casino.Royale
Toy Story 1
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Rightous kill
Troope de elite
The Duchess
Man on Wire
Catfish
The Big Lebowski
Solitary Man
Bande a Part AKA Band of Outsiders
Once 2006
读书的列表
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Mind Map Book
Sheep Falls
The Best advice I ever got
The genius in all of us
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
A man who loved China
On China by Henry Kissinger
SEAL Target Geronimo
Black Hawk Down: A story of Modern War
Looming tower: Al-Queda
The Price of civilization by Jeffrey Sachs
That used to be US by Thomas Friedman
Steve Jobs iLeadership
Steve Jobs:
INSIDE STEVE'S BRAIN:
Practicing mind


Steve Jobs iLeadership
Min39: About the half of what separates the successful ones from unsuccessful entrepreneurs is pure perseverance. There are so much rough moments that most people give up. I dont blame them. It's really tough. It consumes your life. You have to be burning with idea or plan or right the wrong. If you are not passionate from the start you will never stick it out.
How much difference a single person can make? Milestones are essential to make sure the achievement. Also the celebration of the milestones. Maintaining momentum in face of failures. One homerun is better than double! Quality is better than quantity. [Reserve the energy put everything into just few that will make you known well-throughout the world.]
INSIDE STEVE'S BRAIN:
"Most people would put Apple in that category. You could spend billions of dollars building a brand not as good as Apple. Yet Apple hasn’t been doing anything with this incredible asset. What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think outside the box, people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.”
min 4.47: There is a gotta. You've gotta have a vision for people to follow. A roadmap to infinity. You encourage the ideas that are in line with a vision or roadmap and then give people the chance to be part of it. You have to tolerate the mistakes without penalizing people. [will not give the message of wrong sort - your job would not be at stake]
Chap4: “In our business, one person can’t do anything anymore. You create a team of people around you.” by Steve Jobs
Perhaps most significantly, the public humiliation of the unfortunate rep put the fear of God into all the other sales reps. It sent a clear message that everybody at Apple is held personally accountable.[…] Jobs is famous for his reality distortion field—a ring of charisma so strong that it bends reality for anyone under its influence.
“The reality distortion field was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, an indomitable will, and an eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand. If one line of argument failed to persuade, he would deftly switch to another. Sometimes, he would throw you off balance by suddenly adopting your position as his own, without acknowledging that he ever thought differently. Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it, although the effects would fade after Steve departed.
In return, Jobs keeps a distance from rank-and-file employees. Except with other executives, he is fairly private at Apple’s campus. Kramer writes that remaining aloof instills a mixture of fear and paranoia that keeps employees on their toes. Staff are always working hard to please him, and it also allows him to reverse decisions without losing credibility.


Born to Run
233/610: Ultrarunning used to be just a handful of freaks in the woods with flashlights, but over the past few years, it had been transformed by an invasion of Young Guns. Like Karl Meltzer, who rocked “Strangelove” through his iPod while winning the Hard rock 100 three times in a row; and the “Dirt Diva,” Catra Corbett, a beautiful and kaleidoscopically-tattooed Goth chick who once, just for fun, ran all 211 miles of the John Muir trail across Yosemite National Park and then turned around and ran all the way back; and Tony “Naked Guy” Krupicka, who rarely wore more than skimpy shorts and spent a year sleeping in a friend’s closet while training to win the Leadville 100; and the Fabulous Flying Skaggs Brothers, Eric and Kyle, who hitchhiked to the Grand Canyon before setting a new record for the fastest round-trip run from rim to rim.
Matt Carpenter, a mountain runner in Colorado Springs, began spending hundreds of hours on a treadmill to measure the variations in body oscillations when, for instance, he took a sip of water (the most bio-mechanically efficient way to hold a water bottle was tucked into his armpit, not held in his hand). Carpenter used a belt sander and a straight razor to shave micro-ounces off his running shoes and plunged them in and out of the bathtub to gauge water retention and drying speed. In 2005, he used his Leadville—he finished in a stunning 15:42, nearly two hours faster than the fastest Tarahumara ever had.
But! What could the Tarahumara do if pushed? See, that’s what Caballo wanted to know.
259/610: Lisa Smith-Batchen, the amazingly sunny and pixie-tailed ultrarunner from Idaho who trained through blizzards to win a six-day race in the Sahara, talks about exhaustion as if it’s a playful pet. “I love the Beast,” she says. “I actually look forward to the Beast showing up, because every time he does, I handle him better. I get him more under control.” Once the Beast arrives, Lisa knows what she has to deal with and can get down to work.
308/610 : That fall, a photo appeared in UltraRunning magazine. It shows Jenn finishing a 30- mile race somewhere in the backwoods of Virginia. There’s nothing amazing about her performance (third place), or her getup (basic black shorts, basic black sports bra), or even the camera work (dimly lit, crudely cropped). Jenn isn’t battling a rival to the bitter end, or striding across a mountaintop with the steel-jawed majesty of a Nike model, or gasping toward glory with a grimace of heartbreaking determination. All she’s doing is … running. Running, and smiling.
“Nothing works out according to plan, but it always works out.”
391/610 “He’s from L.A., man; he thinks you’ve got to fill every space with noise.”
561: “No. Way. In. HELL!” growled Caballo, who was running in a pack of his own with Barefoot Ted, Eric, and Manuel Luna. When they got to the five-mile turnaround in the tiny Tarahumara settlement of Guadalupe Coronado, Caballo and Manuel started asking the Tarahumara spectators some questions. It didn’t take them long to find out what was going on: the Urique Tarahumara were taking side trails and shaving the course. Rather than fury, Caballo felt a pang of pity. The Urique Tarahumara had lost their old way of running, he realized, and their confidence along with it. They weren’t Running People anymore; they were just guys trying desperately to keep up with the living shadows of their former selves.


ROUGH GUIDE TO RUNNING
Which sports drink?
There are three types of sports drinks on the market:
Isotonic: The balance of carbs and electrolytes to water is thesame as in the human body, so it will be absorbed at around the same speed as water, but has greater calorific value.
Hypotonic: The carbs and electrolyte/water ratio is less that the body’s, so the fluid is absorbed quicker than water but with less energy replenishment.
Hypertonic: A greater carbs/electrolyte concentration than the body, so the fluid is absorbed the slowest, but the energy replacement is the greatest. Best as an after-race recovery drink.
Also, the addition of carbohydrate speeds up your body’s absorption of the drink’s water element. However, for it to be of value to you, a sports drink’s carb content has to be between five and eight per cent. If it is much lower, it won’t be enough to make any difference and you might as well save your
money. If it is higher than eight per cent then the concentration of sugar will actually impede your body’s water absorption, will require too much of the energy that should be saved for running to be used up in breaking it down, and will have a hugely increased chance of upsetting your stomach. This is why sugar-rich “energy” drinks are not recommended for runners.

Moral Animal: Why we are the way we are – Robert Wright
As Emile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, wrote at the turn of the century: human nature is "merely the indeterminate material that the social factor molds and transforms."

p.23: Darwinian anthropologists see the world's undeniably diverse cultures as products of a single human nature responding to widely varying circumstances; evolutionary theory reveals previously invisible links between the circumstances and the cultures (explaining, for example, why some cultures have dowry and others don't)
。。。Still, neither is the idea that the grimmest parts of the human experience are wholly immutable, grounded in "instincts" and "innate drives"; nor the idea that psychological differences among people boil down mainly to genetic differences. They boil down to the genes, of course (where else could rules for mental development ultimately reside?), but not necessarily to differences in genes
。。。But he must be ever "armed against the temptation of low indulgences," and must not "defile his body by sensuality, nor his mind by servile thoughts.
。。。"Fitness" is the thing that natural selection, in continually redesigning species, perpetually "seeks" to maximize. Fitness is what made us what we are today
。。。 [why there is competition for females? Why males chase after females?] As the evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson have succinctly put it: for males "there is always the possibility of doing better."7
There's a sense in which a female can do better, too, but it has to do with quality, not quantity
… Bateman saw the import: natural selection encourages "an undiscriminating eagerness in the males and a discriminating passivity in the females."

For a male mammal, the necessary sacrifice is close to zero. His "essential role may end with copulation, which involves a negligible expenditure of energy and materials on his part, and only a momentary lapse of attention from matters of direct concern to his safety and well-being." With little to lose and much to gain, males can profit, in the currency of natural selection, by harboring "an aggressive and immediate willingness to mate with as many females as may be available." For the female, on the other hand, "copulation may mean a commitment to a prolonged burden, in both the mechanical and physiological sense, and its many attendant stresses and dangers." Thus, it is in her genetic interest to "assume the burdens of reproduction" only when circumstances seem propitious

… One way to strengthen an evolutionary explanation is to show that its logic is obeyed generally.
…At some point, in other words, extensive male parental investment entered our evolutionary lineage. We are, as they say in the zoology literature, high in MPI.

But high MPI has also created whole new ways for male and female aims to diverge, during both courtship and marriage. In Robert Trivers's 1972 paper on parental investment, he remarked, "One can, in effect, treat the sexes as if they were different species, the opposite sex being a resource relevant to producing maximum surviving offspring.
…What drives men craziest is the thought of their mate in bed with another man; they don't dwell as much as women do on any attendant emotional attachment, or the possible loss of the mate's time and attention. Wives, for their part, do find the sheerly sexual infidelity of husbands traumatic, and do respond harshly to it, but the long-run effect is often a self-improvement campaign: lose weight, wear makeup, "win him back." Husbands tend to respond to infidelity with rage; and even after it subsides, they often have trouble contemplating a continued relationship with the infidel
… In a high-MPI species, the female seeks two things: good genes and high ongoing investment. She may not find them in the same {69} package. One solution would be to trick a devoted but not especially brawny or brainy mate into raising the offspring of another male. Again, cryptic ovulation would come in handy, as a treachery facilitator.
… You might think that the number of sperm cells in a husband's ejaculate would depend only on how long it's been since he last had sex. Wrong. According to work by Baker and Bellis, the quantity of sperm depends heavily on the amount of time a man's mate has been out of his sight lately.37 The more chances a woman has had to collect sperm from other males, the more profusely her mate sends in his own troops. Again: that natural selection designed such a clever weapon is evidence of something for the weapon to combat.
… A good example lies in Robert Trivers's 1972 paper on parental investment. Trivers noted two patterns that social scientists had already uncovered: (1) the more attractive an adolescent girl, the more likely she is to "marry up" — marry a man of higher socioeconomic status; and (2) the more sexually active an adolescent girl, the less likely she is to marry up.
… (Women report putting more emphasis on a sex partner's looks when they don't expect the relationship to last; they are apparently willing, unconsciously, to trade off parental investment for good genes.)
… Among all the data on contemporary marriage, two items stand out as especially telling. First is the 1992 study which found that the husband's dissatisfaction with a marriage is the single strongest predictor of divorce.66 Second is that men are much more likely than women to remarry after a divorce.67 The second fact — and the biological force behind the second fact — is probably a good part of the reason for the first.
… when monogamy is found in subsistence-level cultures, Alexander calls it "ecologically imposed." When it appears in more affluent, more stratified cultures, he calls it "socially imposed."3 The question is why society imposed it.
… The United States is no longer a nation of institutionalized monogamy. It is a nation of serial monogamy. And serial monogamy in some ways amounts to polygyny.15 Johnny Carson, like many wealthy, high-status males, spent his career monopolizing long stretches of the reproductive years of a series of young women. Somewhere out there is a man who wanted a family and a beautiful wife and, if it hadn't been for Johnny Carson, would have married one of these women. And if this man has managed to find another woman, she was similarly snatched from the jaws of some other man. And so on — a domino effect: a scarcity of fertile females trickles down the social scale
… There are ways to fool mother nature, to induce parents to love children that aren't theirs. (Hence cuckoldry.) After all, people can't telepathically sense that a child is carrying their genes. Instead, they rely on cues that, in the ancestral environment, would have signified as much. If a woman feeds and cuddles an infant day after day, she may grow to love the child, and so may a man who has been sleeping with her for years. This sort of bonding is what makes adopted children lovable and nannies loving. But both theory and casual observation suggest that, the older a child is when first seen by the substitute parent, the less likely deep attachment is. And a large majority of children who acquire stepfathers are past infancy.
… The best that natural selection can do is give us adaptations — "mental organs" or "mental modules" — that play the odds. It can give males a "love of offspring" module, and make that module sensitive to the likelihood that the offspring in question is indeed the {106} man's. But the adaptation cannot be foolproof. Natural selection can give women an "attracted to muscles" module, or an "attracted to status" module, and, what's more, it can make the strength of those attractions depend on all kinds of germane factors; but even a highly flexible module can't guarantee that these attractions translate into viable and prolific offspring.
… After reflection of unknown length, he modified the foregoing sentence with "better than a dog anyhow." He continued: "Home, & someone to take care of house — Charms of music & female chitchat — These things good for one's health. — but terrible loss of time." Without warning, Darwin had, from the pro-marriage column, swerved uncontrollably into a major anti-marriage factor, so major that he underlined it.
…And, as many husbands and wives can attest, the birth of a child often cements a marital bond, if obliquely; the love of spouse is partly diverted to the child and then refracted diffusely onto the family as a whole, mate included. It is a different kind of love for the spouse, but it's sturdy in its own way. In the absence of this roundabout recharge, love of spouse may tend to disappear entirely — by design.
…Divorce statistics support Samuel Johnson's characterization of a man's decision to remarry as "the triumph of hope over experience."
…He[John Stuart Mill] wrote: "Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures. ... It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides."
… Perhaps the greatest threat to lasting marriage — the temptation of aging, affluent, or high-status men to desert their wives for a younger {142} model — was met with great social firepower.
…Consider the sexual double standard. the most obvious Darwinian explanation is that men were designed, on the one hand, to be sexually loose themselves yet, on the other, to relegate sexually loose women ("whores") to low moral status — even, remarkably, as those same men encourage those same women to be sexually loose.
… So unless identifying kin is very hard, evolution should produce a strong and well-targeted strain of benevolence, not a weak and diffuse strain. And that is what has happened. It has happened, at least to some extent, with ground squirrels, which are more likely to deliver warning calls in the presence of close kin.7
…For, assuming the mother's poor health leads — through skimpy milk, say — to frail offspring, it will bode especially ill for the sons. Malnourished males may be shut out of reproductive competition altogether, whereas a fertile female in almost any condition can usually attract a sex partner.
Some nonhuman mammals seem to comply with this logic. {171} Florida pack rat mothers, if fed poorly, will force sons off the teat, even letting them starve to death, while daughters nurse freely. In other species, even the birth ratio of males to females is affected, with mothers in the most auspicious condition having mostly sons and less advantaged mothers having mostly daughters.26
In our species, somewhat polygynous through much of its evolution, wealth and status can be as important as health. Both are weapons with which men compete for women — and, in the case of status, at least,, this has been the case for millions of years.

In the course of his basically sound approach to evolutionary psychology, Darwin succumbed to a temptation known as group selectionism. Consider his central explanation for the evolution of the moral sense. In The Descent of Man he wrote that "an advancement in the standard of morality and an increase in the number of well-endowed men will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another. There can be no doubt that a tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to give aid to each other and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection." Yes, this would be natural selection, if it actually happened. But, while it isn't impossible for it to happen, the more you think about it, the less likely it seems. Darwin himself had seen the main snag only a few pages earlier: "It is extremely doubtful whether the offspring of the more sympathetic and benevolent parents, or of those which were the most faithful to their comrades, would be reared in {186} greater number than the children of selfish and treacherous parents of the same tribe." On the contrary, the bravest, most self-sacrificial men "would on an average perish in larger number than other men." A noble man "would often leave no offspring to inherit his noble nature."
… We now know that habits are passed from parent to child by instruction or example, not via the genes. In fact, no life experiences (except, say, exposure to radiation) affect the genes handed down to offspring.
… Once the prevailing winds of cooperation are shifting — from generation to generation, from one village to an adjacent village, or from one family to the next — these shifts are a force to be reckoned with, and a flexible strategy is the way to reckon. As Axelrod showed, the value of a particular strategy depends utterly on neighborhood norms
… One way to put the matter is to say that Victorian England was an admirable society, but not one composed of especially admirable people. They were only doing what we do — acting conscientiously, politely, and considerately to the extent that it pays. It just paid more in those days. And besides, their moral behavior, however laudable it was or wasn't, was more a heritage than a choice; the Victorian {224} conscience got shaped in ways the Victorians never understood and were in some sense powerless to affect.
…The simpler way to account for this sort of "excessively" moral behavior is to recall that human beings aren't "fitness maximizers" but rather "adaptation executers." The adaptation in question — the conscience — was designed to maximize fitness, to exploit the local environment in the name of genetic self-interest, but success in this endeavor is far from assured, especially in social settings alien to natural selection. {225}
Thus the conscience can lead people to do things that aren't in their self-interest except in the sense of salving the conscience itself. Sympathy, obligation, and guilt, unless subjected to a veritable extermination campaign during youth, always have the potential to bring behaviors of which their "creator," natural selection, would not "approve."
…Beneath the behavioral parallels between human and nonhuman primates lie biochemical parallels. In vervet monkey societies, dominant males have more of the neurotransmitter serotonin than do their subordinates. And one study found that in college fraternities, officers, {242} on average, have more serotonin than do their less powerful fraternity brothers.21
…In any event, there are good Darwinian reasons to believe that everyone is born with the capacity for high serotonin — with the equipment to function as a high-status primate given a social setting conducive to their ascent. The whole point of the human brain is behavioral flexibility, and it would be very unlike natural selection, given that flexibility, to deny anyone a chance at the genetic payoffs of high status, should the opportunity arise.
…What does serotonin do? The effect of neurotransmitters is so subtle, and so dependent on chemical context, that simple generalizations are risky. But often, at least, serotonin seems to relax people, {243} make them more gregarious, more socially assertive, much as a glass of wine does. In fact, one of alcohol's effects is to release serotonin. As a slight and useful oversimplification, you might say that serotonin raises self-esteem; it makes you behave in ways befitting an esteemed primate. Extremely low levels of serotonin can accompany not just low self-esteem, but severe depression, and may precede suicide. Antidepressants such as Prozac boost serotonin.
… "Woman seems to differ from man in mental disposition, chiefly in her greater tenderness and less selfishness," he wrote in The Descent of Man. "Man is the rival of other men; he delights in competition, and this leads to ambition which passes too easily into selfishness. These latter qualities seem to be his natural and unfortunate birthright."
…Under his rule, life was orderly and just. If two chimps were fighting, he would step between them with calm authority, ending hostilities without fear or favor. And when he did side with one combatant, it was almost always the one who was losing. This pattern of support for the downtrodden — {252} populism, we call it — had also been employed by Yeroen. It seemed to impress the females especially; being less caught up in the pursuit of status than males, they seemed to place a premium on social stability. Luit could now count on their support.
… Still, if we are not going to explain such things — respect, reverence, awe, honor, stubborn pride, contempt, disdain, ambition, and so on — as natural selection's way of equipping us for life in a status hierarchy, how, then, are we to explain them? Why are they found in cultures everywhere? Is there an alternative theory? If so, does it explain, as well, why pride and ambition, for example, seem to reach greater heights in men, on average, than in women? Modern Darwinism has an explanation for all of this, and it's simple: natural selection in a context of status hierarchy.
… Indeed, the hunger for status may actually lower the costs of redistribution. Humans, it seems, tend to compare themselves to those very near them in the status hierarchy — to those just above them, in particular.49 This makes evolutionary sense as a {257} ladder-climbing technique, but that's not the point.
… The range of things that can bring status in different cultures and subcultures is astonishing. Making beads, making music, delivering {259} sermons, delivering babies, inventing drugs, inventing tales, collecting coins, collecting scalps. Yet the mental machinery driving these various activities is fundamentally the same. Human beings are designed to assess their social environment, and, having figured out what impresses people, do it; or, having found what people disfavor, avoid it. They're pretty open-minded about what "it" is. The main thing is that they be able to succeed at it; people everywhere want to feel pride, not shame; to inspire respect, not disdain.
… In other words, what we call cultural "values" are expedients to social success.55 People adopt them because other people admire them. By controlling a child's social environment, by selectively dishing out respect and scorn, we can program his values as if he were a robot.
… The command of resources — that is, money — will tend to hold a certain appeal. Still, resistance is possible. There are cultures and subcultures that try to put less emphasis on the material and more emphasis on the spiritual. And their success is sometimes impressive, if less than total. And, moreover, there is {261} no reason to believe that any of them have reached the limits of biological potential.
…Reciprocal altruism brings its own agenda to the presentation of self, and thus to the deception of self. Whereas status hierarchies place a premium on our seeming competent, attractive, strong, smart, et-cetera, reciprocal altruism puts its accent on niceness, integrity, fairness. These are the things that make us seem like worthy reciprocal altruists. They make people want to strike up relationships with us. Puffing up our reputations as decent and generous folks can't hurt, and it often helps.

DARWIN’s STRATEGY:
First, Darwin strengthened his argument. While immersed in barnacles, he continued to gather evidence for his theory, partly through the postal interrogation of far-flung experts on flora and fauna. One reason for the Origin's ultimate success was Darwin's meticulous anticipation of, and preemptive response to, criticism. Two years before the book's publication, he correctly wrote, "[I] think I go as far as almost anyone in seeing the grave difficulties against my doctrine."

The second prong of Darwin's three-pronged strategy was to beef up his credentials. It's a commonplace of social psychology that cred ibility grows with prestige. Forced to believe either a college pro fessor or a grade-school teacher on some question of biology, we usually choose the professor. In one sense, this is a valid choice, as the professor is more likely to be right. In another sense, this is just another arbitrary by-product of evolution — a reflexive regard for status.

The third prong of Darwin's strategy was to marshal potent social forces — to meld a coalition that included men of stature, men of rhetorical power, and men who fit both descriptions. There was Lyell, who would bring Darwin's first paper on natural selection before thes Linnean Society of London, lending it his authority (though Lyell was then an agnostic on natural selection); Thomas Huxley, who would famously confront Bishop Wilberforce in the Oxford evolution debate; Hooker, who would less famously confront Wilberforce and would join Lyell in unveiling Darwin's theory; and Asa Gray, the Harvard botanist who, through his writings in the Atlantic Monthly, would become Darwin's chief publicist in America. One by one, Darwin let these men in on his theory.

We spend our lives desperately seeking status; we are addicted to social esteem in a fairly literal sense, dependent on the neurotransmitters we get upon impressing people. Many of us claim to be self-sufficient, to have a moral gyroscope, to hold fast to our values, come what may. But people truly oblivious to peer approval get labeled sociopaths. And the epithets reserved for people at the other end of the spectrum, people who seek esteem most ardently — "self-promoter", "social climber" — are only signs of our constitutional blindness. We are all self-promoters and social climbers. The people known as such are either so effective as to arouse envy or so graceless as to make their effort obvious, or both.

p.707

SWITCH
p.20 You need to control commitments, projects, and actions in twoways horizontally and vertically. "Horizontal" controlmaintainscoherence across all the activities in which you are involved.Imagine
your psyche constantly scanning your environment likepolice radar; it may land on any of a thousand different items thatinvite or demand your attention during any twenty-four-hourperiod:
the drugstore, the housekeeper, your aunt Martha, thestrategic plan, lunch, a wilting plant in the office, an upset cus
p.21 "Vertical" control, in contrast, manages thinking up and down the track of individual topics and projects. For example, your inner "police radar" lands on your next vacation as you and your spouse talk about it over dinner—where and when you'll go, what you'll do, how to prepare for the trip, and so on. Or you and your boss need to make some decisions about the new departmental reorganization you're about to launch. Or you just need to get your thinking up to date on the customer you're about to call.
[...]The goal for managing horizontally and vertically is the same: to get things off your mind and get things done.
p.24 THE CORE PROCESS I teach for mastering the art of relaxed and controlled knowledge work is a five-stage method for managing workflow. No matter what the setting, there are five discrete
stages that we go through as we deal with our work. We (1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we
(4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

p.51 The Six-Level Model for Reviewing Your Own Work

50,000+ feet: Life•
40,000 feet: Three- to five-year vision•
30,000 feet: One- to two-year goals•
20,000 feet: Areas of responsibility•
10,000 feet: Current projects•
Runway: Current actions

Friday, January 13, 2012

Bought & Found

今天我找到我买过很多书或者下载很多epub书。上个年我真不读那么多书因为用很多时间学习汉语。即便我已经学习了八个月,我还不会读报纸读的流利。太遗憾!老天啊!
下面我陈列我买的,我下载的书名

Bought or found in pdf:

George Soros What it means

Edward Said: Orientalism

Edward Said: Culture and imperialism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Next 100 years Forcast

The greatest show on earth.

Brain Rules 12 principles

Power and plenty

Bottom billion

Superfreakeconomics

Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship

The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown

One Economics, Many Recipes by Dani Rodrik

The accidental guerilla

The post American world by Fareed&Zakaria

Too big to fail by Sorkin (Gave it to a friend on his birthday!)

How markets fail

The partnership: making of Goldman Sachs

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

How to read and why by Harold Bloom

Paul Krugman,The return of depression economics

Team of Rivals: Political genius of Abraham Lincoln

Mind Programing:From Persuasion&Brainwashing, to Self-Help & Practical Metaphysics

Rules for Radicals by Alinsky (HIGH PRIORITY)

The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

Michael Lewis Big Short

The audacity to win by David Plouffe

Free Fall by Joseph Stiglitz (audiobook)

The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement

A Confederacy of Dunces

Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

Thinking strategically

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Logic of Life by Tim Hartford

Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken

Location of culture by Homi Bhabha

End of History and the last man by Francis Fukuyama

Washington Consensus Reconsidered

A splendid exchange: how trade shaped the world

Change we can believe in by Barack Obama

Enough: true measures of money , business and life

"How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read" By Pierre Bayard

Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill

THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN: Easy Money, High Rollers

Andrew M Lobaczewski: Political Ponerology A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

Causing a scene by Prankster

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations) by Noah Feldman

Lynne McTaggart: The Field The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives by Carl W. Stern, Michael S. Deimler

Paul Krugman Consience of a liberal

The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel

Out of place memoir by Edward Said

Escaping the resource curse

David P. Calleo’s Follies of Power: America’s Unipolar Fantasies

Governing by Network:the New Shape of the Public Sector

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
by David E. Sanger.

Middle East: A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman


EPUB FOUND:

Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Mao’s Great Famine

Emperor of All maladies: A biography of Cancer

The Bridge: The life and rise of Barack Obama by David Reminick

Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P. Pan

Country Driving: a journey through China from Farm to Factory

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

我的列表 四月到八 月

相思
红豆生南国
春来发几枝
愿君多菜撷
此物最相思

电影列表
The Eagle 2011
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The.Wind.That.Shakes.The.Barley
The Night of the Hunter 1955
The secrets of Kell
Winter light
The.Taking.Of.Pelham.123
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo [ENG] (2009)
They fought for their country - Russian by Sergei Bondorchuk
White Sun of the Desert - Russian
The cranes are flying - Russian
Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession - Russian
Mary and Max
National Geographic Secrets Of The Taj Mahal
RED: Retired Extremely Dangerous
Sense and Sensibility
Rightous Kill
Donnie Brasco
The kid is all right
Magnolia
The Christmas story
About Schmidt
Kunfu Panda 2
Resident Evil Afterlife[2010]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG
Changeling
Remember me
the kite runner
In the valley of Elah
Edge of Darkness
The.Big.Lebowski
127
King's speech
The fighter
Next three days
The kid is alright
Pathology
Paul Blart Mall Cop
Source code
Adjustment bureau
History boys
Once upon a time in Tibet西藏往事
Let me in
Arrow Faster
Frost Nixon
Lolita by Stanley Kubrick
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders
Age of innocence
Meet the Fockers
Blue Kite 1993 (Chinese)
Thick as thieves
Usual Suspects 1995 – One movie that cannot be bored from keep watching
Bittersweet life
Informant
Chinatown 1974
Rogue Trader
Recount
Rising Arizona 1987
Roman Polanski – The Tragedy of Macbeth 1971
三国 2010 第一到第四十
三国2010 第四十到七十二
The losers
Cat Balou
Speed racer
State of play
The push
Straight Jacket 2007
Devil wears Prada
Insomnia

书列表
The looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11
Animal Spirits: How human psychology drives the economy and why it matters for global capitalism
Self analysis by Karen Horney
Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite navy seal sniper
The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the french revolution
The moral animal: Why we are, the way we are by Robert Wright
The social animal by David Brooks

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

2010.Dec - 2011.Mar


It's been a while since I have taken a major decision in freeing myself of all the load. The free time might kill me for good or might empower me to pursue what I love to do. Learning chinese will help me to understand what is really going on in China from the perspective within. Without the language, i would even know anything even if all hell broke loose.
Anyway should get back to memorizing hanzi-s!

黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛
我却用它来寻找光明!

Movies watched:

Christmas Carol
Unthinkable
Manchurian candidate
I proposal
Get him greek
Lakeview terrace
Tropa de Elit
Little fockers
The Road
Gran Torino
Road to perdition
Despicable me
Winter light by Ingrid Bergman
Tangled
Ul tanih emegtei
Next 3 days
True Grit
King's Speech
The fighter
Wolf creek
District 9
Letters to Juliet
TOwn
Infernal affairs(Wu2 jian4 dao4)
Red Clif(1-2008)
Red Clif(2-2009)
Spirit
New Police Story (Jackie Chan)

Books read:
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Future of Power
The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
The Checklist Manifesto

Monday, February 21, 2011

Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance

Van Morrison

Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
You know the night's magic
Seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight
Seems to shine in your blush...

Can I just have one a' more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with a' you, my love?

Well I wanna make love to you tonight
I can't wait till the morning has come
And I know now the time is just right
And straight into my arms you will run
And when you come my heart will be waiting
To make sure that you're never alone
There and then all my dreams will come true dear
There and then I will make you my own
And every time I touch you, you just tremble inside
And I know how much you want me that, you can't hide...

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with you, my love?

Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
You know the night's magic
Seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight
Seems to shine in your blush...

One more moondance with you
In the moonlight
On a magic night
la, la, la, la, there's a moonlight
On a magic night
Can't I just have one more dance
With you my love?

Friday, January 28, 2011

Imp: Sleep

Guide to Good Night’s Sleep
p.18People tested to measure how well they
have learned a new task improve their scores after a night’s sleep.
If repeatedly roused from REM sleep, however, the improvements
are lost. On the other hand, if they are awakened an equal
number of times from slow-wave sleep, the improvements in the
scores are unaffected. Such findings may help explain why students
who stay up all night cramming for an examination generally
retain less information than classmates who get some sleep.
Three to five times a night, or about every ninety minutes, a
sleeper enters REM sleep. The first such episode usually lasts for
only a few minutes, but REM time increases progressively over
the course of the night. The final period of REM sleep may last
half an hour. Altogether, REM sleep makes up about 25 percent
of total sleep in young adults. If someone who has been deprived
of REM sleep is left undisturbed for a night, he or she enters this
stage earlier and spends a higher proportion of sleep time in it—
a phenomenon called REM rebound.

Monday, December 27, 2010

From Jul.09 to Nov.10


Цаг хугацаа маш хурдан өнгөрч, бүтэн жилийг ардаа илээжээ. Гэвч энэ хугацаанд тун цөөн номыг уншсан байх юм. Гэхдээ л Economist сэтгүүлийг бараг л алгасалгүй уншиж, HBR-г хэд хэдийг зооглосон гэхээр бас чамлахааргүй ч юм шиг. Гэхдээ л дэндүү их цагийг хий дэмий зарцуулж дээ хөөрхий. За тэгээд энэхүү блогийн тоосыг бага ч гэсэн үргээе дээ.

All I need to know I learned in Kindergarden номноос:

p.6: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
That dreams are more powerful than facts
That hope always triumphs over experience
That laugher is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death.


Movies watched
Sherlock holmes
Taxi driver 1976
My fair lady
invictus
Underworld Rise of the Lycans
Insominia
iron man 2
bRIDe valintine
My bloody valentine.
Race to the witch mountain
In Bruges
Revolutionary Road
Ip man 1
Ip man 2
Monsters vs alien
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
La misma luna
Knocked up
Law abiding citizen
Max Payne
Princess and a frog
Fast and furious 2009
Knocked up
Angel & Demons
Step up 3
Robin Hood
inglorious busterds
Karate kid
Lumamba
Legends of Gardians
Shattered Glass
Lovelybones
Cloudy withc chance of Meatballs
Night at the museum battle of the smithsonian
The Expandables
This is IT Michael Jackson
Lakeview Terrace
American Psycho
Caroline
Hanna Montana
J.I.Joe Rise of Cobra
Shotgun stories
Horseman
Social network
Clash of titans
Sweeney Todd-The demon barber of Fleet street
Underworld
500 Summer days
Shrek 4
Book of Eli
Aminaas unetei ami
Ip man
Knock up
Step up
Inception
Frog and princess
The talented Mr.Ripley
Gattaca
Hanna Montana
American Psycho
Kick Ass
Karate Kid
Robin Hood 2009
Legends of Guardians
Seventeen again
Ip man 3
Knowing
From Dusk till dawn
Bride war
You have got mail
B-13
Pink Pantera 2
Би чамд хайртай
Би чамд хайртай 2
Bedtime stories
Sex is Zero
Taken
Hotel Rwanda
Pink Pantera 1
Hangover
Ghost Rider
Harry Potter and the Half blood prince
Hurt Locker
District 9
Le samurai
God father I
God father II
He is not into you
Ninja assassin
In bruges
International
UP
Public Enemies
Fareed Zakaria Show Sept to Dec all episodes.
TED Talks Jul to Dec
Үлгэрийн хайр
Мөрөөдлийн баг
Illusionist
Insomenia
The bucket list
2012

Books read:
SuperFreakonomics by Levitt & Steven
The Winner Stands Alone by Paolo Coelho
How To Get Into the Top MBA Programs, 4th Edition
Чонон Сүлд by Jiang Rong
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Kamkwamba
Great Personal Statements for Law School
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
The Hypomanic Edge by John Gartner
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean Twenge
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Energy Autonomy by Herman Scheer
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmin Gallo
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Cheap Heath
The Amateurs by David Halberstam
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe
Top Class Competitors: How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness by Stephane Garelli
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles Ellis
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
The Tipping Point
Start where you are by Chris Gardner
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
Don’t eat the marshmallow yet
Clear blogging: How people blogging are changing the world
Age of Terbulance
Brain rule
ӨМНӨГОВЬ АЙМГИЙГ ХӨГЖҮҮЛЭХ 2009 – 2012 ОНЫ ҮЙЛ АЖИЛЛАГААНЫ МӨРИЙН ХӨТӨЛБӨР
Орон Нутаг Болон Бүс Нутгийн Эдийн Засгийн Хөгжлийн Үзэл Баримтлалыг Тодорхойлох нь, 2008, GTZ
Төвийн Бүсийн Хөгжлийн Хөтөлбөр
Draft Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: UHG Phase II
Leadership lessons from Westpoint

p.7: There were three frogs that were floating down the river on top of a leaf. One of them decides to jump into the river. How many frogs are left on top of the leaf?
- 2.
-Wrong answer. Because deiciding to jump and jumping are two different things.

p.52: 30 seconds rule. No matter what you do for a living, you are first and foremost in the business of connecting with people. Those people will decide whether to connect with you within the first thirty seconds of meeting you. So you either make a good first impression or forget it.
p.53: Some experts estimate that twenty percent of your financial success comes from your skills, talents and knowledge, while eighty percent comes from your people skills, your ability to connect with other people and gain their trust and respect.


Clear blogging:
p.75 Our feeling of being more and more apart from everyone is borne out in the numbers.
In a major study published in the American Sociological Review, entitled “Social Isolation in
America” (www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/June06ASRFeature.pdf), fully one-quarter
of those surveyed reported that they had no one they could confide in, up from 10 percent 20 years
ago. On average, our number of close personal friends has dropped from three to two.
And yet, while the number of people we know and share with offline diminishes, because
we have too much to do and too little in common with the people who share some physical
space with us, the number of people we know online, especially if we blog, soars. Blogging is
the new campfire, office water cooler, town meeting, pub, and place of worship—the place
where you can connect with people who understand you and who you can understand.
New ideas on marketing.


Орон Нутаг Болон Бүс Нутгийн Эдийн Засгийн Хөгжлийн Үзэл Баримтлалыг Тодорхойлох нь, 2008, GTZ
p.7 Орон нутгийн хүчин зүйлсийг гурван төрөлд хуваан үзэх нь их түгээмэл байдаг. Үүнд:
1.Орон нутгийн биет хүчин зүйлс гэдэг нь ихэвчлэн хэмжиж, тооцож болохуйц “хатуу” шалгуур байдаг. Тухайлбал, газар зүйн байрлал буюу чухал нөөц, түүхий эд болон холбогдох зах зээлд ойрохн гэх мэт.[…]
2.Бизнес эрхлэгчдэд шаардалагатай биет бус хүчин зүйлсийг “зөөлөн” гэх ба хэмжихэд нэлээд бэрхшээлтэй байдаг. Үүнд: төрийн байгууллагын үйл ажиллагааны хүртээмжтэй байдал, түүни йажил хэрэгч байдлаар ажиллах чадвар,бизнесийн ерөнхий байдал (эрэлт хэр амьд, болдитой байгаагаар тодорхойлогддог) холбогдох болон дэмжигч комапаниудын олдоц,, бизнесийн дэмжих үйлчилгээ үзүүлэх байгууллагууд жишээ: ур чадварыг сайжруулах, технологи, санхү гэх мэт болно.
3.Биет бус хүчин зүйлс нь тухайн газар орны амьжиргааны түвшин, байдлыг тодорхойлж байдаг учраас хувь хүмүүст их чухал байдаг.
p.7 Улаанбаатарын бүсийн хүн амын жилийн дундаж өсөлт 2005 оны байдлаар 4.0 хувь байгаа бөгөөд хүн амын жилийн дундаж өсөлтийн дийлэнх хэсэг буюу 74.3 хувь нь механиз өсөлтөөр хангагдаж, механик өсөлт нь ердийн өсөлтөөс хэт өндөр байна. Цаашид механик өсөлтийг сааруулж, төрөлтийг дэмжиж, нас баралтыг бууруулах замаар хүн амын ердийн цэвэр өсөлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх шаардлагатай байна.
P.8 Улаанбаатарын бүсэд ядуурлын хамралтын хүрээ (27.3%), ядуурлын гүнзгийрэлт зэрэг үзүүлэлт өндөр хэвээр тууштай буурахгүй байна. […] Цаашид бүсийн хөгжлийн давуу тал, нөөц боломжийг бүрэн ашиглаж, жижиг дунд үйлдвэрлэл, үйлчилгээг бүх талаар дэмжин ажлыг байрыг олноор бий болгох, эдийн засгийн өсөлт, тэргүүлэх салбаруудын хөгжил, хөрөнгө оруулалтын арга хэмжээтэй нягт уялдсан хөдөлмөр эрхлэлтийн оновчттой бодлогыг хэрэгжүүлж ядуурлыг эрс бууруулах шаардлагатай байна.
Улаанбаатарын бүсийн мэдээлэл, харилцаа холбооны өнөөгийн сүлжээ нь хотын захын орон сууцны болон гэр хорооллуудын хүн амын хэрэгцээ шаардлагыг бүрэн хангаж чадахгүй байна. Иймд мэдээлэл, харилцаа холбооны нэгдсэн сүлжээг бий болгох шаардлагатай байна.
p.9 Хүн амын хэт төвлөрөл болон үйлдвэрлэл, үйлчилгээний цар хүрээ өсч байгаатай холбоотойгоор байглийн нөөцийн ашиглалт, байглаь хамгааллын холбогдролтой олон асуудлууд бий болж байна. Хотын агаар% ус хөрсний бохирдол нэмэгдэж байгаа нь хүн амын эрүүл мэндэд сөргөөр нөлөөлөх боллоо. Сүүлийн жилүүдэд нийслэл хот орчмын байгаль экологийн тэнцвэрт байдал алдагдах явдал эрс нэмэгдэж байна. Гал, үерийн аюул, газар хөдлөлт, химийн хорт болон цацраг идэвхт бодис алдагдах, хүн, мал, амьтны гаралтай гоц халдварт өвчин гараг зэрэг болзошгүй аюулаас урьдчилан сэргийлэх тогтолцоог бэхжүүлж, менежментийг нь эрс сайжруулах шаардлагатай байна.
p.10 Улаанбаатарын бүсийн хүн амын нутагшилт, суурьшилт тогтолцоог 1. Улаанбаатарын бүсийн түвшинд 2. УБ-н бүсийн эрчимтэй таталцал, нөлөөллийн бүсийн түвшинд 3. Улсын түвшинд гэсэн гурван түвшинд Монгол Улсын бүсчилсэн хөгжлийн үзэл баримтлалтай нийцүүлэн иж бүрэн цогцолбор байдлаар сайжруулан, хот төлөвлөлт, газрын менежментийн тогтолцоог зах зээлийн нөхцөлд нийцүүлэн боловсронгуй болгон шинэчлэх шаардлагатай байна.
p.10 Бүсийн хүн амын нутагшилт, суурьшилын тогтолцоог УБ-н бүсийн, УБ-н бүсийн таталцал, нөлөөллийн бүсийн, улсын гэсэн 3 түвшинд иж бүрэн, цогцолбор байдлаар нь сайжруулах эрх зүй, эдийн засаг, хот байгуулалтын таатай орчин бүрдэнэ.
Өмнөговь аймгийн дунд болон урт хугацааны бодлогын баримт бичгүүд
P.36 Нийгмийн халамж, хамгааллын үйлчилгээний чанар, хүртээмжийг сайжруулж, хүн амын өсөлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх, иргэдийн ажиллаж амьдрах таатай орчинг бүрдүүлэн гэр бүл, хүн ам зүйн бодлогыг зөв хөгжүүлэх
Хүн амын тогтвортой өсөлтийг хангах, гэр бүл, хувь хүний хөгжлийг дэмжих.
Хөдөлмөр эрхлэлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх замаар ажилгүйдэл ядуурлыг бууруулж нийгмийн хамгааллыг сайжруулах.
Нийгмийн хэрэгцээ шаардлагыг хангасан, өв тэгш хүмүүжилтэй, бие даан сурч, ажиллаж, амьдрах чадвар бүхий хүмүүнлэг иргэнийг төлөвшүүлэх
Сурч амьдрах таатай орчинг бүрдүүлэх, боловсролын салбарын үйлчилгээний чанар хүртээмжийг дээшлүүлэх
Ур чадвартай мэргэжлийн боловсон хүчнээр хангах, суурь боловсролыг нөхөн эзэмшүүлэх.

Төвийн Бүсийн Хөгжлийн Хөтөлбөр
p.4: Бүсийн хэмжээнд хувь хүн, гэр бүл болон хэсэг бүлэг хүмүүс хамтран нийгэмд хөдөлмөрлөх, өөрийнгөө хөгжүүлэх, чадавхиа дээшлүүлэх санал санаачлагыг бүх талаар дэмжих
p.5: Хүний амьдарлын нйигэм, эдийн засаг, орчин ахуйн таатай нөхцлийг бүрдүүлэх замаар хүн амын дундаж наслалтыг 65-д хүргэх
Малчид хувиараа хөдөлмөр эрхлэгчдийг нийгмийн даатгалд өргөнөөр хамруулах төсөл хөтөлбөрүүдийг хэрэгжүүлэх
p.7: Хүн амын төмс, хүнсний ногооны хангамжийг 2005 оны түвшингээс 20-30 хувь, жимс жимсгэний хангамжийг 20 хувь, цөцгийн тосны хангамжийг 50 хувь, загас загасан бүтээгдэхүүний хангамжийг 6 хувь тус тус өсгөн хүнсний хэрэглээний бүтцийг өөрчлөн чанаржуулна. (яг энэхүү тэргүүлэх зорилт хэр үр дүнтэй байх вэ? Энэхүү зорилтийг биелүүлэхдээ ямар арга замыг ашиглавал зорилтод хамгийн хурдан хүрч болох бол?)
p.10: Говьсүмбэр аймагт иргэдийн ундны болон ахуйн хэрэглээний усны нөөц хомсдолоос хамгаалах, бохирдлоос сэргийлэх, усны хатуулгийг бууруулах, чанарыг дээшлүүлэх, инженерийн хийцүүдийг сольж, дэмшилтэт технологи нэвтрүүлэх, усны хэрэглээнд хяналт тавих системтэй болж, зарцуулалтын хэмжээгээр төлбөртэй болох механизм бүрдүүлж ажиллах
p.11: Бүсийн аймгуудын гэр хорооллын усан хангамжийг сайжруулах, усны зохистой хэрэглээг бий болгоход хувийн хэвшлийн оролцоог идэвхижүүлж, тэднийг дэмжсэн үнийн бодлого, татварын бодлого зэрэг эдийн засгийн хөшүүргүүдийг хэрэгжүүлэх
p.13: Өмнөговь аймгийн сүүний үйлдвэрийн хүчин чадлыг бүрэн ашиглаж дотоодын цагаан идээний хэрэгцээг 100 хангана
p.16: Хэдийгээр ажилгүйдлийн түвшин улсын дундажаас бага байгаа боловч ажилгүйдэл, ядуурал их байна. Иймээс ядуурлын үндсийг арилгах, ядуурлаас гарах оновчтой арга зам, механизм боловсруулж хэрэгжүүлэх зайлшгүй шаардлагатай байна.
Бүсийн төв, аймаг, орон нутгийн нөөц баялагийг ашиглах, хуваарилах, өрхийн болон жижиг, дунд үйлдвэр хөгжүүлэхэд орон нутгийн удирдлагын эрхийг нэмэгдүүлэх эрх зүйн орчин бүрдүүлэх
Бүсийн хэмжээнд сайн дурын үндсэн дээр хөдөлмөр, хөрөнгөө нэгтгэн хоршоо, фермерийн аж ахуй, нөхөрлөл байгуулахыг дэмжиж, жижиг дунд үйлдвэрлэлийг өргөтгөх, шинээр байгуулах замаар ажлын байрыг нэмэгдүүлэх арга хэмжээ авах,
p.17: Бүсийн аймгуудын ажил эрхлээгүй залуучуудад техник мэргэжлийн сургалт, үйлдвэр дээрх сургалт зэргийг ажлын дадлага, ур чадвар олгох сургалтын бүх хэлбэрийг дэмжин хөгжүүлэх замаар тэдний мэргэжлийн ур чадварыг дээшлүүлэх
p.18: Өмнөговь аймагт тэтгэврийн сайн дурын даатгалд хамрагдалтыг өргөтгөж, даатгалийн мэдээллийн тогтолцоог бүрдүүлэх
Өмнөговь аймгийн сумдад асрамж үйлчилгээний төвийг байгуулан асрамжийн үйлчилгээг өрх гэрт тулгуурласан хэлбэрт шилжүүлэх
p.19: Ажлын дадлага суулгаж сургалтад хамрагдсан залуучуудыг тогтвортой ажлын байртай болгох
p.20: Бүисйн хэмжээнд бага хүүтэй зээл олгох замаар жижиг дунд үйлдвэрлэл, үйлчилгээг бүх талаар дэмжиж шинээр ажлын байр бий болгох хөтөлбөр боловсруулж хэрэгжүүлэх (ингэж ажиллахдаа банк-ны бичил зээлийн систем дээр тулгуурлан ажиллаж, орон нутагт үйл ажиллагаа явуулж буй ТББ-тай хамтрах)
p.21: “Ахмад настны эрүүл мэнд, нийгмийн хамгаалал” хөтөлбөрийг хэрэгжүүлэх замаар Мандалговьд ахмад настнуудын “Соёл үйлчилгээний төв” байгуулах
Мандалговь сум болон бүсийн бусад сумдад нийтийн ахуй үйлчилгээний салбарыг хувийн хэвшилд тулгуурлан бий болгох замаар үсчин, оёдолчин, гуталчин дархан зэрэг чиглэлээр мэргэжил эзэмшүүлэх сургалтыг бодлого чиглэлтэйгээр зохион байгуулах
Олон жилийн өмнө ашиглалтанд орсон сургуулиудын хичээлийн барилга байгууламж, тоног төхөөрөмж эвчдэрч хуучирсан байна. Мөн цахилгаан, дулааны байнгын хомсдол нь урт богино хугацаагаар сурагчдын хичээл тасрах явдалд хүргэж байна. Багшлах боловсон хүчин....
(НОМЫН САНГ САЙЖРУУЛЖ, ШИНЭ БАРИЛГА БАРИХ. ХӨГЖИЛ МЭДЭЭЛЛИЙН ТӨВ бий болгох. Номын сангийн фондыг баяжуулан, үйлчилгээний хүртээмжийг өргөжүүлэх )
p.24: Даланзадгад суманд орчин үеийн эрэлт шаардлагад нйицсэн 150 ортой зочид буудал, зоогийн газар шинээр байгуулах
Өмнөговь аймгийн нутагт байдаг хилийн боомтын эрх зүйн орчиг бүрдүүлж, боомтын нөхлийг сайжруулан, худалдаа эрхлэгчдэд учирдаг бэрхшээлийг арилгах арга хэмжээ авах.
(МОНГОЛ ТӨМС ХӨТӨЛБӨР http://www.monpotatopro.mn говийн бүсэд тохирох сорт, таримлыг сонгон шалгаруулах явдал нэн чухал бөгөөд Монгол Төмс Хөтөлбөрөөс 2009 онд Өмнөговь аймагт төмсний 10 шинэ сортыг сорт сорилын арга зүйн дагуу турших сорилтын ажлыг зохион байгуулж, хээрийн туршлагыг тавьсан.)
p.25: Байгалийн үзэсгэлэнт газрын нэг болох дархан цаазат Ёлын аманд байрлах Байгалийн салбар музейг палеонтологийн олдвороор өргөжүүлэн баяжуулж, улмаар гадаад дотоодын аялал жуулчдад морь тэмээн хөсөг, ардын уламжлалт урлаг, монгол үндэсний тоглоом наадгайгаар үйлчилдэг бүхэл бүтэн цогцолбор үйлчилгээний бааз болгох.
p.28: аймгийн нутаг дэвсгэрт байгаа түүхийн үл хөдлөх дурсгалуудыг эрэн сурвалжлах, хамгаалах, бүртгэл мэдээллийн санд оруулах арга хэмжээ авах
p.29: Дорноговь аймгийн мэдээлэл, холбооны технолгийд суурилсан зайны сургалтыг хөгжүүлэх, нээлттэй сургалтын хэлбэрийг өргөтгөх арга хэмжээ авах
Бүсийн амйгуудад англ хэлийг хоёр дахь албан хэл болгох зорл тыг хэрэгжүүлэхэд шаардагдах блэтгэл ажлыг хангаж, зхих нөхцөлийг бүрдүүлэх
Өмнөговь аймагт нийтийн ахуй үйлчилгээг системтэй сэргээж үйлчилгээний цогцолбор байгуулах
p.30: Сумдын сургуулиудад сурагчдын дотуур байр барих
... аймгийн ерөнхий боловвсролын сургуулиудад БСШУЯ-тай хамран компютержуулах арга хэмжээ авч, номын сангийн фондыг нэмэгдүүлэх
p.38: Эрүүл мэндийн анхан шатны тусламж үйчилгээний оновчтой тогтолцоог бүрдүүлж, хүртээмж чанар нь сайжруулан, хүн амын эрүүл мэндийн байдлын түвшинг дээшлүүлнэ.
Өмнөд бүс нутгийн эрдэс баялгийг ашиглах, дэд бүтцийг хөгжүүлэх талаар, Үйлдвэр Худалдааны Яам
Говийн бүсэд хүн амын өсөлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх, гадагш чиглэсэн шилжих хөдөлгөөнийг бууруулах, иргэд өөрийн төрж өссөн нутаг орондоо тогтвортой оршин суух нөхцлийг бүрдүүлж, хүний хөгжлийн түвшинг дээшлүүлэх стратегийн зорилтын хүрээнд хэрэгжүүлэх үйл ажиллагаа
- Төслүүдийг хэрэгжүүлэхдээ Монгол ажилчдыг сургах, дадлагажуулах, тэдний нийгмийн асуудлыг шийдвэрлэх, цалин хөлсийг нь гадаадын улс орнуудын хэмжээнд ойртуулах, инженер техникийн ажилтнуудыг гадаадын сургуулиудад бэлтгэх, давтан сургах зэрэг асуудлуудыг төсөл хэрэгжүүлэгч нартай хамтран шийдэх
- Говийн бүсийн онцлог нөхцөл байдлыг бүрэн тусгасан бодлого боловсруулах, хэрэгжүүлэх оролцоот механизм бүрдүүлэх
- Төр засгийн бүх шатанд Говийн бүстэй
ӨМНӨГОВЬ АЙМГИЙГ ХӨГЖҮҮЛЭХ 2009 – 2012 ОНЫ ҮЙЛ АЖИЛЛАГААНЫ МӨРИЙН ХӨТӨЛБӨР
- Хүмүүнлэг иргэний нийгмийг байгуулахын төлөө хүн амыг эрүүл, боловсролтой, ажилтай, орлоготой байх нөхцөл бүрдүүлэх оновчтой бодлого хэрэгжүүлж, хүний хөгжил, хүн амын өсөлтийг хангах нийгмийн таатай орчин бүрдүүлж, иргэдийн амьдралын чанарыг сайжруулахыг эрмэлзэх
- Бүсчилсэн хөгжлийн үзэл баримтлалын хүрээнд “Оюу толгой”, “Таван толгой”, “Овоот толгой”-н их ордыг дагасан Ханбогд, Цогтцэций, Гурвантэсийн үйлдвэржсэн шинэ хотуудыг байгуулах, түүнийг холбосон дэд бүтцийг байгуулж эхлэн, сум бүрт хүн ам, газар зүйн байршил, байгаль орчны даац, ашигт малтмалын нөөц, орон нутгийн чадавхид уялдуулан жижиг дунд үйлдвэрийг хөгжүүлж, ажлын байрыг нэмэгдүүлэх, мэргэжилтэй ажилтан бэлтгэх замаар ажилгүйдэл ядуурлыг өнөөгийн түвшнээс бууруулах
- Иргэдэд эрх зүйн туслалцаа үзүүлэх үйлчилгээг сайжруулан, гэмт хэрэг, архидалт, түүнийг бий болгож буй хүчин зүйлсэд нөлөөлөх замаар иргэн бүр эрүүл, аюулгүй орчинд амьдрах нөхцлийг бүрдүүлэх
- Мэргэжил, ур чадвартай боловсон хүчнээр төрийн жинхэнэ албаны нөөцийг бүрдүүлж, төрийн албан хаагчийн амьдралын нөхцөл бололцоо, ажлын үр дүн, тогтвор суурьшил зэргийг харгалзан тэтгэмж, тусламжид хамруулах, хөнгөлөлттэй зээл олгох, орон сууцны сангийн хөрөнгийг нэмэгдүүлэх замаар нийгмийн баталгааг сайжруулна.
- Боловсон хүчнийг гадаадын улс орнуудад мэргэшүүлэх, мэргэжил дээшлүүлэх сургалтанд шат дараатайгаар хамруулна.
- Архидан согтуурахаас сэргийлэх, хяналт тавих үндэсний хөтөлбөрийн хэрэгжилтийг эрчимжүүлж, архидалт түүнийг бий болгож буй хүчин зүйлсийг илрүүлэн, арилгах арга хэмжээг зохион байгуулна.
- Иргэдийн амь бие, эд хөрөнгө, нэр төрийг гэмт халдлагаас хамгаалах, тэдний аюулгүй, амгалан тайван амьдрах нөхцлийг бүрдүүлэхэд чиглэсэн цогц арга хэмжээг авч гэмт хэргээс урьдчилан сэргийлэх, нийгмийн хэв журам хамгаалах ажилд иргэдийг татан оролцуулж, орон нутагт зонхилон гарч байгаа гэмт хэрэгтэй тэмцэнэ
- “Монгол улсад хүний эрхийг хангах үндэсний хөтөлбөр”-ийн хэрэгжилтийг эрчимжүүлж, хүний эрх, эрх чөлөөг хангах баталгаа, боломжийг өргөтгөнө.
- Цагдаагийн хэлтсийг Цагдаагийн газар болгон өргөтгөх асуудлыг шийдвэрлүүлж, Тавантолгойн нүүрсний уурхай, Гашуун сухайтын хилийн боомтыг хариуцсан гэрээт цагдаагийн тасаг байгуулна.
- Хууль сахиулах байгууллагын алба хаагчдын мэргэжил, мэргэшлийн ур чадварыг дээшлүүлэх, сургалтын материаллаг баазыг сайжруулах арга хэмжээ авна.
- Гадаадын иргэдийн бүртгэл, хяналтыг сайжруулна.
- Гамшгаас сэргийлэх, гамшгийн үеийн бэлэн байдлыг хангах, аврах, хор уршгийг арилгах, сэргээн босгох үйл ажиллагааны шуурхай байдлыг хангана.
- Шүүхийн шийдвэр гүйцэтгэлийн албыг бэхжүүлж, шийдвэр гүйцэтгэлийн ажлын үзүүлэлт, чанарыг дээшлүүлэн, шийдвэр гүйцэтгэлийн бодит биелэлтийг жил бүр 80-аас доошгүй хувиар хангаж ажиллана.
- Хилийн застав, хилийн боомтод ажиллаж байгаа албан хаагчдын хэвийн ажиллах нөхцлийг бүрдүүлнэ.
- Улсын бүртгэлийн нэгдсэн тогтолцоонд шилжих боломжийг бүрдүүлж, бүртгэл мэдээллийн үйлчилгээг цахим хэлбэрт оруулна.
- Батлан хамгаалах болон цэргийн шинэчлэлийн бодлогыг үргэлжлүүлэн хэрэгжүүлж, орон нутгийн хамгаалалтын тогтолцоог төлөвшүүлэх зорилтын хүрээнд:
- Хилийн болон Зэвсэгт хүчний анги салбаруудын бие бүрэлдэхүүний нийгэм, соёлын асуудлыг анхаарч дэмжлэг үзүүлнэ.
- 3.4.2. Орон нутгийн хамгаалалтын тогтолцоог бэхжүүлнэ.
- 3.4.3. Цэргийн дүйцүүлэх албаны үйл ажиллагааны үр дүнг дээшлүүлнэ
Draft Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: UHG Phase II

As a result of coal transport, recorded injuries in Khanbogd soum have also
increased which has placed pressure on the Khanbogd hospital. 59.4 percent of
emergency calls are from Javikhlant bagh of Khanbogd soum (the bagh through
which the coal road crosses in Khanbogd), indicating81 that mining activity
impacts the capacity of health services.

Previously certain population groups, such as students and the self-employed (including traditional herders) had to pay their own insurance premiums, and health insurance coverage declined from 95.3 percent of the population in 1998 to 77.6 percent in 2005110.

However, there are almost no preventive tools (such as sanitary hygiene or nutritional education,
campaigns to control selected diseases, and epidemiological surveillance
measures)

High traffic levels and accidents, with a low vehicle safety culture:

Issues relating to infrastructure safety, exposure to disease, hazardous material
safety or increased exposure to natural hazards can potentially pose a risk to
community safety and security.

Construction of the 12MW power
plant will require an estimated 200 workers, expected to comprise a mixture of
Mongolian and Chinese workers. Likewise, construction of the CHPP will
include domestic and foreign employees. Accommodation for this diverse
workforce will need to take account of differences in language, diet, and other
cultural sensitivities that exist between Mongolian and Chinese people, or there
is potential for direct short term negative impacts on a local scale. To manage
these risks, ER’s ‘Code of Conduct’ will be applied to all workers and subcontractors
in and around the mine site as well as a detailed Camp Management
Plan, included in Section 8 of this document.

The potential impacts to workers if their rights are not met could range from
temporary to permanent and from negligible to major, depending on the
magnitude of the breach. Serious non-conformance could lead to project delays,
orders for a stop in work, fines or the withdrawal of finance. In the event of
major or persistent non-compliance with either Mongolian standards or
international norms, the Project could also be forced to suspend operations or
have lender funds withdrawn.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Jan.01.09 to Jul.01.09

Маш завгүй байв. Хувийн амьдрал хувьсгалын замнал гээд олон зүйлийг ардаа орхиж, өчнөөн зүйлийг урьдчилан төлөвлөж явах замд нэгэн сайхан "surprise" байсан нь надад үнэхээр таалагдлаа. Ингээд унших үзэхийг бага зэрэг орхигдуулсан тул тооцоолж байснаас хамаагүй багыг уншиж, багыг үзэв.

The motto for the period is:
Years ago, when I was younger
I kind of liked, a girl I knew
She was mine and we were sweethearts
That was then but then it's true

I'm in love with a fairytale
Even though it hurts
Cause I don't care if I lose my mind,
I'm already cursed...
- ALEXANDER RYBAK


Movies Watched
Terminator Salvation
Миний хөрш чөтгөр
The day the earth stood still
Slumdog Millionaire
North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock
Howl’s moving house
Lord of the rings 3
Wanted
Prestige
Last boy scout
Platoon
A mighty heart
Unbearable lightness of being
Gone baby gone
Jane Austen book club
Crimes and Misdeamors
Enchanted
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Once upon a time in America
I am not there
Burn after reading
Eagle Eye
Once upon a time in America
Taxi driver 1976
Atonement
La Dolce Vita
Golden Compass
Fur an Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Nations and nationalism
Gone baby gone
Prestige
Platoon
A mighty heart
Unbearable lightness of being
Jane Austen book club
Crimes and Misdeamors
Enchanted
Tales From Earthsea
Lost highway
Fareed Zakaria GPS series (CNN)
Superbad
Untouchables
Ace in the hole(1951)

Read
Next 100 years
Dreams from my fathers by Barack Obama
Зуун Жилийн ганцаардал
Далайн хөвөөний алаг хав толгой by chingiz aimatov
Саятан Артем Тарасов
Trial by Kafka
Metamorphosis by Kafka
11 minutes by Paulo Coelho
The Ascent of Money by Neil Furgeson
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Animal farm by Orwal
Hot flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
Energy Autonomy by Hermann Scheer
Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Renegade: Making of the president (Audiobook)
How to move Mount Fuji
Barack Obama A Biography by Joann F.Price
Mozart Brain (Audiobook) by Richard Restak
Working with Emotional Intelligence (Audiobook)
The Powers to Lead (mp3 LSE)
Amazing palmistry secrets
Haruki Murakami and the Music of words by Jay Rubin
Уран Зохиолын Онол by С.Дулам


Далайн хөвөөний алаг хав толгой
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ßàãààä ãýâýë õ¿íèé ñàíàà áîäîëä õÿçãààð ãýæ áàéäàãã¿é. Õýðýâ íýã õ¿í ¿õýõýä îíäîî õ¿í ò¿¿íèé áîäëûã öààø íü ¿ðãýëæë¿¿ëýí ñýòãýíý. Äàðàà÷èéí õ¿í öààø íü ñýòãýíý, èíãýýä ¿çýõýä áîäîëä õÿçãààð áàéõã¿é… ªâãºí èíãýæ óõàìñàðëàõäàà ýâëýðýõ, ¿ë ýâëýðýõүйí ãàøóóí æàðãàëûã ýäëýõ áºë㺺. [...] Þó õàðæ áóéã á¿¿ ìýä, òýíãèñèéí óñ øèðòýí ÿâàõäàà ºíºº àãóó èõ Çàãàñ-ýõíýðèéí òóõàé ç¿¿äýëäýã ç¿¿äèéã íü õàìò ¿ëäýýõèéã ìºðãºí ãóéí ÿâíà.


Next 100 years
p.12 Geopolitics assumes two things. First, it assumes that humans organize themselves into units larger than families, and that by doing this, they must engage in politics. It also assumes that humans have a natural loyalty to the things they were born into, the people and the places. Loyalty to a tribe, a city, or a nation is natural to people. In our time, national identity matters a great deal. Geopolitics teaches that the relationship between these nations is a vital dimension of human life, and that means that war is ubiquitous.
Second, geopolitics assumes that the character of a nation is determined to a great extent by geography, as is the relationship between nations. We use the term geography broadly. It includes the physical characteristics of a location, but it goes beyond that to look at the effects of a place on individuals and communities.
p.13 But the twenty- first century will be extraordinary
in two senses: it will be the beginning of a new age, and it will see a new global power astride the world. That doesn’t happen very often.
[..]So studying the twenty- first century means studying the United States.
p.18 But I am making a broader, more unexpected claim, too: the United States is only at the beginning of its power. The twenty- first century will be the American century.

p.24 In his book The Influence of Sea Power on History, Mahan makes the counterargument to Mackinder, arguing that control of the sea equals command of the world.

p.28This isn’t incompatible with American self- doubt. Psychologically, the United States is a bizarre mixture of overconfidence and insecurity.

p.65There are five areas of the world right now that are viable candidates. First, there is the all- important Pacific Basin. The United States Navy dominates the Pacific. The Asian rim of the Pacific consists entirely of trading countries dependent on access to the high seas, which are therefore dependent on the United States. Two of them—China and Japan—are major powers that could potentially challenge U.S. hegemony. From 1941 to 1945 the United States and Japan fought over the Pacific Basin, and control of it remains a potential issue today.
Second, we must consider the future of Eurasia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since 1991, the region has fragmented and decayed. The successor state to the Soviet Union, Russia, is emerging from this period with renewed.

self- confidence. Yet Russia is also in an untenable geopolitical position. Unless Russia exerts itself to create a sphere of influence, the Russian Federation could itself fragment. On the other hand, creating that sphere of influence could generate conflict with the United States and Europe.
Third, there is continuing doubt about the ultimate framework of Europe. For five centuries Europe has been an arena of constant warfare. For the last sixty years it has been either occupied or trying to craft a federation that would make the return of war impossible. Europe may yet have to deal with the resurgence of Russia, the bullying of the United States, or internal tensions. The door is certainly not closed on conflict.
Fourth, there is the Islamic world. It is not instability that is troubling, but the emergence of a nation- state that, regardless of ideology, might form the basis of a coalition. Historically, Turkey has been the most successful center of power in the Muslim world. Turkey is also a dynamic and rapidly modernizing country. What is its future, and what is the future of other Muslim nation- states?
Fifth, there is the question of Mexican–American relations. Normally, the status of Mexico would not rise to the level of a global fault line, but its location in North America makes it important beyond its obvious power. As the country with the fifteenth highest GDP in the world, it should not be underestimated on its own merits. Mexico has deep and historical issues with the United States, and social forces may arise over the next century that cannot be controlled by either government.
In order to pinpoint events that will occur in the future, we need to examine now which of these events are likely to occur and in what order. A fault line does not necessarily guarantee an earthquake. Fault lines can exist for millennia causing only occasional tremors. But with this many major fault lines, conflict in the twenty- first century is almost certain.
Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman

It was an excellent book, and I always love reading Friedman, Furgason, Krugman and others. His language is clear and straight to the point without too much abstraction. Lots of stats included to back up his argument which I always appreciates. The one message clearly resonates throughout the book that is green green green or we die. Hehe “Renewable energy ecosystem for innovating, generating, and deploying clean power”
There were many ideas to pick, and also some business clues to pursue but without much feasibility study and small market in MOnoglia, it is hard to say anything substantial upfront.
Google said it was going into the energy innovation and generation business.


p.8: IN some ways, the subprime mortgage mess and housing crisis are metaphors for what has come over America in recent years: A certain connection between hard work, achievement, and accountability has been broken. We’ve become a subprime nation that thinks it can just borrow its way to prosperity – putting nothing down and making no payments for two years. Subprime lenders told us that we could have the American dream – a home of our own – without the discipline or sacrifice that home ownership requires.
p.23: Le me repeat that: Green is not simply a new form of generating electric power. It is a new form of generating national power – period. It is not just about lighting up our house; it is about lighting up our future.
56: At current rates of growth, the world economy will double in size in a mere fourteen years. (The bridge at the edge of the world by James Gustave SPeth)
“Americans” are popping up all over now […] moving into American stly living spaces, buying American style cars … Cities all over the world have caught America’s affluenza – surely one of the most infectious diseases ever known to man.

p.69: Tha bad news for today’s rising economic powers and new capitalists is that there are few virgin commons left to fule their takeoff into capitalism. “That’s why China is now reduced to stealing manhole covers,” said Pope. “Yes, it is unfair, but it’s the reality.”
p.117: 280 ppm CO2 in 1750, now 384 ppm.

p.187: Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons, and I will give you water in the desert from a deep generator powered well. Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons, and I will put every petrodictator out of business. Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons, and I will end deforestation from communities desperate for fuel and I will eliminate any reason to drill in Mother Nature’s environmental cathedrals. Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons,
and I will enable millions of the world’s poor to get connected, …

p.203: A reent studyt found the average American golfer walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found American golfer drink on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americangolfers get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind of makes you proud. – From the internet

p.207: Pentagon planners like to say: “A vision without resources is a hallucination.”
p.244: But markets are not just open fields to which you simply add water and then sit back in a lawn chair, watch whatever randomly sprouts, and assume that the best outcome will always result. No, markets are like gardens. You have to intelligently design and fertilize them – with the right taxes, regulations, incentives, and disincentives – so they yield the good, healthy crops necessary for you to thrive.
p.273: Another way of putting it, Porter explained to me, is that pollution is simply waste: wasted resources, wasted energy, wasted materials. Companies that eliminate such waste will be using their capital, technology, and raw materials more productively to generate maximum value and therefore, will become more competitive. So properly crafted environmental regulations give a kind of two-for-one kick – they can improve both the environment and the competitiveness of a firm and a nation. […]
What is the difference betweena 20 percent and a 30 percent air conditioner energy-efficiency standard? Salon’s Leonard asked. Only about twelve 400 megawatt power plants.
p.290: A barrel of crude oil is forty two gallons. America consumes over twenty-one million barrels of crude oil per day, with more than half of that imported. About fourteen million of the twenty-one million goes to cars, trucks, planes, buses, and trains. The remaining seven million barrels go into heating buildings and manufacturing chemical and plastics.

p.309 “We always start by looking at the local power structure,” said Supriatna, “understanding the local communities, their cultures, their social and economic aspects, and the influence of the business sector – and [focusing on] what was in it for them and not just the orangutan.” If the orangutan benefits and the community doesn’t “ we lose th efounation for protecting the whole.”

p.373: America took roughly thirty two years between its first major effort to raise fuel economy standards for cars, in 1975 and its second major effort in 2007. Meanwhile, in 2003 China began to put in place a major fuel economy initiative for its cars and trucks and sent proposed new standards to the State Council for approval. They were adopted in 2004 and went into effect in 2005. Now all new cars and trucks must meet the new standard.
p.377: Jeff Biggers, author of The United States of Appalachia, wrote an essay in The Washington Post (March 2, 2008) that seemed to be a direct refutation of the plug into-coal advertisement:
Clean coal: Never was there an oxymoron more insidious, or more dangerous to our public health. Invoked as often by t eDemocratic Presidential candidates as by the Republicans… this slogan has blindsided any meaningful progress toward a sustainable energy policy… Here’s the hog-killing reality… No matter how “cap’n trade” schemes pan out in the distant future for coal fired plants, strip mining and underground coal mining remain the dirtiest and most destructive ways of making energy. Coal ain’s clean. Coal is deadly.

p.391: I understand politics. I am not naïve. But I also understand a crisis and an opportunity. As my friend the former Standford economist Paul Romer likes to say, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” But we are well on our way.
p.411: So what am I? I guess I wold call myself a sober optimist – I prefer to hold on to both of Auden Schendler’s business cards. If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.


Energy Autonomy by Hermann Scheer

The author is an amazing guy. I have not met him yet, but I am already impressed by his achievements and perseverance to promote renewable energy. In this book, he argued clearly and coherently why renewable energy is the only option we have today why not the nuclear or others. Over 20 years of pursuit, he finally established IRENA.

p.11: The bottlenecks and limits of nuclear and fossil energy supplies are just too obvious for that. But every setback results not only in additional lost time; it also breeds social-psychological discouragement. It is difficult for people who have taken the initiative in a spirit of high hopes, only to suffer repeated setbacks and disappointment, to summon up th energy and take a second go at it.

p.38: The consequences of energy poverty are ruinous exploitation of biomass, increasing steppe land, rural flight into the cities overflowing slums, the destruction of social structures and the disintegration of states, and crises that spill over into international conflicts. And yet, in a grotesque musjudgement of reality, using indigenous renewable energy to overcome this energy-determined poverty crisis is deemed economically unreasonable.

p.53: What matters are ideas and attitudes that can unleash initiatives. In any event, the basic assumption of an insufficient technological potential in untenable.

p.163: The conference’s final declaration warns: We risk the entrenchment of these global disparities and unless we act in a manner that fundamentally changes their lives the poor of the world may lose confidence in their representatives and the democratic systems to which we remain committed, seeing their representatives as nothing more than sounding brass or tinkling cymbals.

p.231: There is an important job to be done and
Everybody expects that Somebody would do it
Anybody could do it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody gets angry about that because it is Everybody’s job.
Everybody thinks that Anybody should do it,
but Nobody realizes that Everybody would not do it.
It ends up that Everybody blames Somebody
when Nobody does what Anybody has to do.


Windup Bird chronicle
May Kasahara
Wind-Up Bird
Kumiko
Nutmeg
p. 29:A noncommissioned officer with Japan’s Manchurian garrison, the Kwantung Army, he had suffered burst eardrums when an artillery shell or a hand grenade or something exploded nearby during a battle with a combined Soviet-Outer Mongolian unit at Nomon-han on the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchuria.
p.56 I am thirsty but I have stay still. I am hungry and I have to stay still. Where I suppose to stay still, I have to stay till.
p.275 Those people believe that the world is as consistent and explainable as the floor plan of a new house in a high-priced development, so if you do everything in a logical, consistent way, everything will turn out right in the end. That’s why they get upset and sad and angry when I’m not like that.
p.297

THE POWER TO LEAD
Soft power:
1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Create a vision
3. Communications - Rhetoric & Non-verbal communication

Hard Power Skill
1. Organizational skills - capacity to manage information flows and get things done.
2. Machevillion political skills - ability to size up people's fears and their hopes, play upon it minimum coalition to make things done. Stregths and weakness to create a coalition
- how to make alliances
- how to bully people into setting standards (bullying with a vision)
3. Contextual intelligence - when to use what kind of strategies.
- You have to know the culture how to operate in it.
- You have to know about the timing - when to act, when not to act, like a skilled surfer: Steps up on the board fall of Ex: Eiserhouwer adapted in the environment to lead.

Barack Obama A Biography by Joann F.Price

p.36 Barack was handed a list of people to interview and was charged with
the task of finding their self-interest. That was how people became involved
in organizations, Marty said, because they believed they would
get something out of the process. Once he found an issue, a self-interest,
that people cared about, he could get them to take action, and with action,
there would be power. Barack liked these concepts of issues, spurring action,
power, and people’s self-interest. For the first three weeks of his job,
he worked around the clock.

p.40 Another member of the DCP, Loretta Augustine-Herron, said of Barack that he was “someone who always followed the high road,” and she remembered him saying, “You’ve
got to do it right . . . be open with the issues . . . include the community instead of going behind the community’s back . . . you’ve got to bring people together. If you exclude people, you’re only weakening yourself. If you meet behind doors and make decisions for them, they’ll never take ownership of the issue.”

p.42 Barack had wanted to be part of a community, have a sense of
belonging, and he had a desire for acceptance; this was, he realized, what
drove him away from New York and to Chicago in the first place. Yet
what he found in his work as a community activist was that, to be true to
himself, he had to do what was right for others and have a commitment
and faith. He also realized that to understand suffering required something
else, too, but he had to find out what that something was. Faith in
oneself wasn’t enough

p.49 In his speeches, he tried to steer clear of contention, stick to
safe topics, and listen to others’ opinions.

p.55 Paul L. Williams, a lobbyist in Springfield, Illinois, and
a former state representative, said that Barack “came with a huge dose
of practicality,” and characterized Barack’s attitude as, “O.K., that makes
sense and sounds great, as I’d like to go to the moon, but right now I’ve
only got enough gas to go this far.

p.74 On one evening alone, he raised nearly $1 million for the Arizona
Democratic Party at a dinner attended by nearly 1,400 people. He also, in
2005, raised an estimated $1.8 million for his own political action committee,
known as the Hopefund.
p.90 On a visit to New Hampshire in December 2006, to an audience
described as rock-star size, Barack said, “America is ready to turn the
page. America is ready for a new set of challenges. This is our time. A
new generation is prepared at lead.”
p.93 Portraying
his candidacy as a movement rather than a campaign, he said, “Each
and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to
be done. Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call.
p.100 When asked if senators who voted in favor of authorizing
the war bear some responsibility for the war in Iraq, Barack answered that
the authorization allowed the Bush administration to wage a war that has
damaged national security. “I leave it up to those senators to make their
own assessments in how they would do things differently or not.”

How to move mount Fuji
P.21 The "ordeal by trick question" was
possibly raised to the highest art by the monks of Japanese Zen.
Zen riddles are the antithesis of the Western logic puzzle,
though one might describe them as demanding an extreme sort
of outside-the-box thinking. A student of Zen demonstrates
worthiness by giving a sublimely illogical answer to an
impossible question. Zen master Shuzan once held out his short
staff and announced to a follower: "If you call this a short staff,
you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore
the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?" In traditional Zen
teaching, the penalty for a poor answer was a hard whack on the
head with a short staff.
Where do you see yourself in five
years? What do you do on your day off? What's the last book
you've read? What are you most proud of?
p.35 Terman defined intelligence as the ability to reason
abstractly. You may not feel this definition says a whole lot. It
was nonetheless reverentially quoted in the twentiethcentury
literature of intelligence testing. Today, it would
probably satisfy Microsoft's interviewers as a definition of
intelligence. Terman's main point was that intelligence is not
knowledge of facts but the ability to manipulate concepts.
p.59In 1979 Microsoft was fifteen people in Albuquerque headed by a twenty-threeyear old kid.
p.66Just in case anyone is in danger of forgetting this, the secret
to remaining ahead of the pack is not "Get Fat" It's "Stay
Hungry." Creativity doesn't happen without a few
constraints. That's why wise use of resources has been a
business tradition at Microsoft since the early days, when, to
be perfectly honest, there wasn't much choice in the
matter. But it remains our practice today, for the simple
reason that when you start leaning on your wealth instead
of living by your wits, you're in real danger of losing your
edge.
p.79"Good candidates have a tendency to try to naturally
keep things moving forward," says Spolsky, "even when you
try to hold them back. If the conversation ever starts going
around in circles, and the candidate says something like
'Well, we can talk about this all day, but; we've got to do
something, so let's go with decision X,' that's a really good sign."
p.98 "Throughout the interview, you look for the
candidate to say something that is absolutely, positively,
unarguably correct. Then you say, 'Wait a minute, wait a
minute,' and spend about two minutes playing devil's
advocate. Argue with them when you are sure they are right.
"Weak candidates will give in. No hire. Strong
candidates will find a way to persuade you. They will have a
whole laundry list of Dale Carnegie techniques to win you
over. 'Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you,' they will say. But
they will stand their ground. Hire."

p.104 Some recent analyses send the message that no one knows how to solve a problem until he or she solves it. In contrast to Simon's solution space, Harvard psychologist David Perkins speaks of a "clueless plateau." If the space of possible solutions is a landscape, and the right solution is somewhere on a big plateau over there, then you've got to search the whole plateau (and are clueless about where to start).
p.132 1. First decide 'what kind of answer is expected (monologue or dialogue). Design questions ("Design a spice rack") have no single right answer. That does not mean that everything is a right answer. "Not-so-smart candidates think that design is like painting: you get a blank slate, and you can do whatever you want," says Joel Spolsky. "Smart candidates understand that design is a difficult series of trade-offs."
p.136 6. "Perfectly logical beings" are not like you and me.
p.137 When you hit a brick wall, try to list the assumptions you're making. See what happens when you reject each of these assumptions in succession.
When crucial information is missing in a logic puzzle, lay out the possible scenarios. You'll almost always find that you don't need the missing information to solve the problem.

The Ascent of Money by Neil Furgeson
p.88: With success came ever greater wealth. When Nathan died in 1836 his personal fortune was equivalent to 0.62 percent of British national income. Between 1818 and 1852 the combined capital of the five Rothschild houses rose from ₤1.8 million to ₤9.5 million. As early as 1825 their combined capital was nine times greatr than that of Baring Brothers and the Banque de France.
p.98: The fate of those who lost their shirts on Confederate bonds was not especially unusual in the nineteenth century.
p.105: Worst of all was the social and psychological trauma caused by the crisis. “ Inflation is a crowd phenomenon in the strictest and most concrete sense of the word,” Elias cannetti later wrote of his experience as a young man in inflation stricken Frankfurt.
p.111: Yet it would be wrong to see this as yet another case of a defeated regime liquidating its debts through inflation. What made Argentina’s inflation so unmanageable was not war, but the constellation of social forces: the oligarchs, the caudillos, the producers’ interest groups and the trade unions – not forgetting the impoverished underclass or descamizados…
p.182: It may sound like just another story of Southern moral laxity or proof that those who live by the tort, die by the tort. Yet, regardless of Scrugg’s descent from good fellow to bad felon, the fact remains that both State Farm and All State have now decl;ared a large part of the Gulf of Mexico coast a “no insurance” zone.
p.183: The average American’s lifetime risk of death from exposure to forces of nature, including all kinds of natural disaster, has been estimated at 1 in 3288. The equivalent figurefor death due to a fire in a building is 1 in 1358. The odds of the average American being shot to death are 1 in 314. But he or she is even more likely to commit suicide (1 in 119); more likely still die in a fatal road accident (1 in 78); and most likely of all to die of cancer (1 in 5).
p.215: For Jose Pinera, just 24 when Pinochet seized power, the invitation to return to Chile from harvard posed an agonizing dilemma. He had no illusions about the nature of Pinochet’s regime. Yet he also believed there was an oppotrunity to put into practice ideas that had been taking shape in his mind ever since his arrival in New England. The key, as he saw it, was not just to reduce inflation. It was also essential to foster that link between property rights and political rights which ahd been at the heart of the successful North American experiment with capitalist democracy. There was no surer way to do this, Pinera believed, than radically to overhaul the welfare state, beginning with the pay as-you-go system of funding state pensions and other benefits. As he was it:…


Underground by Haruki Murakami