Tag: Golden

In the software engineering domain, on-call has always been one of the most dreaded weeks. The constant pressure of late-night pages or a sudden outage where you could have no idea what to do seems daunting to process. I started working as a Software Engineer in 2017. That is when I came across t...

Humans are pattern-seeking storytelling beings. But they cannot endure an absence of meaning. In this regard, we (humans) have a hard need for myths, princesses, and superheroes. No matter if we look geographically, or even when we look historically there is a story as old as time. The Saga of the H...

Are you certain about your primary goal at work right now? Do you know what you want to accomplish by the end of the day? Setting goals is essential for success. You lose focus and direction when you don’t have goals. Setting goals not only allows you to take charge of your life’s cou...

‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Since Apple first released its LiDAR-scanner equipped iPad Pro, I have been chasing a dream. That dream was just realised, without much fanfare, with the release of iOS 16 this Monday. Seeing the world through an...

In Miami it’s not just the sealife like the so many dolphins and sea lions, the beautiful weather or the latin rhythm with the great dancing music and the chill out spots to enjoy. In Miami one of the biggest disruptions in the financial industry has found its capital city. Last week at the...

The golden lion stood at the edge of the crowd, watching the people go in and out of Shinjuku Station. He was hidden in plain sight, disguised as a statue. But he was seeing everything. The lion had been watching the people of Tokyo for a long time. He had seen their good deeds and their bad. He ...

Ihave, in the previous articles, dealt with the existentialist approach to living freely and authentically, and furthermore touched upon the miscorrelation between authentic living and modern-life’s consumption patterns. In this article, I will dive into what ethical consumption might ...

As you age, one thing will increase if you’re financially productive. Your income. But with income increases comes responsibility, and many of us don’t want to deal with responsibility. We want to have fun and enjoy life. It’s no fun not spending more money as...

Planning for retirement involves preparing for a journey into the golden years focused on relaxation and leisure. Among various strategies, leveraging real estate offers financial stability and growth potential. In this deep dive, we will explore how those nearing retirement can navigate the r...

What perspective should we adopt to best understand the world around us? Does a broader view help in understanding the planet’s current challenges? Many people’s anxieties focus less on the present and more on potential future events. Cyclical time is deeply rooted in various spiritua...

Anyone who knows a little about history has probably heard of the Islamic Golden Age – that period from around the 8th to 13th centuries when the Muslim world was at its intellectual and cultural peak. But what exactly was it that made this era so significant? For me, one of the biggest accomp...

Beside Mt. Fuji, the most recognizable symbol of Japan has to be Kinkaku-ji 金閣寺, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. No trip to Japan is complete without a visit to the site in Kyoto, attracting millions of tourists each year. Countless numbers of Twitter and Instagram profiles are adorned with...

There are several well-known triangles, colloquially called golden triangles, which incorporate some aspect of the mathematical ratio know as phi, 1.61803…, symbolized by the Greek letter Φ. The triangles are called ‘golden’ because that mathematical constant is referred to as...

There are many ways to do it, most involving trigonometry with angles of size 36°, 54° or 72°. One such method is shown below, where I finally fumbled my way to work out an expression for the ratio between the two pentagons’ side lengths: 2tan(54°)cos(54°). The workin...

My previous post on Medium introduced a new type of Golden Triangle based on its three angles in proportion to the Golden Ratio. So, once we know that a triangle exists with its angles in Φ or phi proportion (the Golden Ratio, approximately 1.61803…), a logical question to ask is: Can we ...

I need to be conscious of the energy drain. The force bubble is directly connected to my SolCharge, a crystalline vial embedded in my chest. It was installed for me during one of my travels some years ago by the gem-based culture of Glintara on the planet of Lumicryst. I still do not quite understan...

This story was told to me by my great-grandmother, who heard it from her great-grandmother to whom it happened as a young girl, and I swear it is as true as any story ever told in the world. It was long ago, before the Great Famine and the leaving of so many for Canada, America and Australia. Lif...

With about half a billion dollars in current debts Agent Orange is hoping the sale of his golden sneaks will help whittle down his massive piles, of financial liability. Good luck! Half a billion divided by the sneakers’ sale price of $399 equals 1,253,132.83. That means, assuming all th...