Tag: wissam

Urban landscapes are mostly ugly because they are designed by engineers instead of artists and designers.

Aesthetics are no less a priority than functionality.

W Design and Development

Vegan I am increased 600% in the US over the past 10 years.

450% in UK

6% of US population now is vegan.

Methane produced by cattle is one of the major Global Warming factors.

Eat more vegetarian food. If it doesn’t taste good, consult an Indian.

If a 100 of the Tesla Gigafactory are built, it will provide all energy needed in the world with clean energy. No more fossil fuel.

Cost = $5 billion x 100 = $500 Billion

Cost of climate change in the US alone by 2060= $44,000 Billion

Mark Zuckerberg:
Net worth = $37.5B
Car worth = $24,000
Cloth worth = $40 (jeans and T-shirt)
Lesson: live below your means,
Car and cloth are not important

Warren Buffett:
Net Worth = $52B
Home cost = $26,000
Still lives in it since 50 years.
Lesson: Home is where you are comfortable. Choose modest living for peace of mind.

Beyoncé:
Net Worth = $380 M
Spends on Jewelry and makeup = $0
Used only gifts
Lesson: hack life with freebies

Ingvar Kamprad:
Net Worth = $2.8B
Founder of ikea
Always Uses both sides of a paper
Eats in ikea stores all the times
Lesson: use what you got. Don’t waste.

Michael Bloomberg:
Network = $34B
Has two pairs of work shoes.
Gets them resoled and reheeled instead of buying new ones.
Lesson: nothing wrong with cutting down unnecessary expenses.

Jay Leno:
Networth= $294M
Works two jobs. Saves one salary.
Lesson: discipline yourself for saving.

T Boone Pickens (BP)
Networth = $1.25B
Followed strict shopping list and only carried enough cash to buy what is on the list to stick to his budget.
Lesson: have a budget and don’t deviate

Elon Musk
Networth = $10.6B
Trained himself on living on a $1 per day before he left his job to become an entrepreneur and focus on his dreams.
Lesson: cut expenses and be ready to live on nothing

Steve Jobs
Networth = $5.7B
Never bought a new winter coat since he didn’t think he would use one enough to make him buy a new one.
Lesson: only buy what you really need

United States Motto:

“e pluribus unum”

out of many, one since 1776

Replaced in 1956 by Eisenhower to become:

“In God We Trust”

A violation of Separation between Church and State?

“In Zorach v. Clauson (1952), the Supreme Court also wrote that the nation’s “institutions presuppose a Supreme Being” and that government recognition of God does not constitute the establishment of a state church as the Constitution’s authors intended to prohibit.”

No mentally healthy and fully lived life can be achieved with a 40 hours work week schedule.

The 40 hours American Industrial standard is based on a neoslavery imbalanced life, barely surviving to continue production.

Europe did better with a 35 hours work week.

Ideally, I would say 25-30 hours week should be the maximum, if a person is practicing deep work, using tools such as Pomodoro or 30/30. For cognitive work, Research shows they will be more productive!

If you have a Barnes and Nobles in your city, you should never be bored.

Which is more tragic, Beslan or Karbala?

This year is the first three-year period of consecutive life expectancy declines since WWI and the Spanish Flu in 1918…

and it is due to ….

Opioid abuse.