by Chade-Meng Tan | May 27, 2010
Sometimes, you can get away with being lazy just by being funny. Example 1: Boss came into my office looking all flustered. He looked at me with a face full of tension and said, “Meng, I need you to give me a hand”. I said, “Sure”. Then I...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 24, 2010
I’ve been invited to become a senior adviser to a tech company. They also invited me to choose a title for myself. I like funny titles (unfortunately, “Jolly Good Fellow” is already taken by one very good-looking guy in Google). I also like the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 23, 2010
Couple of random thoughts that came up over the past few weeks. Quiet Mind In giving up, I find. In letting go, I gain. In just being, I become. In my silence, hear me roar. In this void, is Dharma. The Lazy Bodhisattva With great compassion, aspire daily to save the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 22, 2010
Last Sunday (16 May 2010), I may have had one of the coolest tweets in the world. My tweet was: Stood right behind Dalai Lama at buffet line! Background story: We were having a buffet lunch at the house of Biddy Martin, Chancellor of the University of...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 19, 2010
Product idea 1: A program you can install on your computer that locks up the computer every now and then, and the only way to unlock it is to smile at the webcam. That way, you’ll smile at least a few times a day. Product idea 2: Competitive smiling. Your...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 25, 2010
(Silly joke that my young daughter and I came up with) Luke and his daddy were in a restaurant. Luke tried to pick up his food using his hands. Daddy said slowly and deliberately, “Use the Fork, Luke”. Luke protested, asking, “Why do you keep...
