In Nov 2004, Frank Warren printed 3000 postcards inviting people to share their secret. He handed over these postcards at subway stations, art galleries, slipped them in between pages of library books. As the word spread, people were making up their own postcards and mailing them to Frank . As of today he has over half a million postcards from strangers all over the world.This book is an assorted collection of secrets from his vast database.

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Well, another box is suggested by the maxim better to fail quickly than to fail slowly which I’m attributing to venture capitalists but also applies in everyday life. Better to have a marriage fail after 7 months rather than 7 years; better to decide you don’t really want to do a Ph.D. after 7 months rather than 7 years. Actions that turn slow-failure outcomes into fast-failure outcomes may be better; you can stop what you’re doing and try something completely different, outside the context of the model.

Snakes & Ladders is one of the popular board games. Just for fun, I have tried revisiting this game from a math perspective. There are many variations of the game where each variation differs from the other in terms of the position of ladders and snakes. I picked this specific version from this wiki Blurb from Wikipedia Snakes and Ladders (or Chutes and Ladders) is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic.

A glowing review of the book, “The Theory That Would Not Die”, by Christian Robert in current issue of Chance : A few days ago, prior to reading her book and writing this review, I had lunch with the author of The Theory That Would Not Die, Sharon McGrayne, in a Parisian café. We had a wonderful chat about why she wrote the book and about the people she met during its completion.