the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat. - Tim Ferriss

Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” — James Cameron “If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.” — Colonel David Hackworth “Not my circus. Not my monkeys.” — Polish proverb

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. — DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize–winning American humorist