Lewis Hamilton is the new Formula One champion. I was personally rooting for Felipe Massa, the Brazilian pilot for Ferrari, but I was quite happy to see Lewis clinch the title. What an incredible race, where Hamilton was losing, then winning, then losing again till the very last turn… Unbelievable.
SpeedTV did a pretty nice job covering the race. Viewers got to see Hamilton’s and Massa’s family and friends, which reminded everybody that these pilots aren’t robots - they are real people with real sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers. It was touching to see Hamilton younger brother, who sits on a wheel chair, praying for Lewis and crying at the end. Lewis has been hardly criticized for the last couple of months for his driving style, etc - and this was a nice reset for both fans and critics. He’s human.
Business is a little like that. There’s always stress at work, sometimes confrontation, and it’s easy to lose track of the bigger picture. Your employees, customers, partners and even competitors are “real” people too. Treat them like you’d like to be treated, which of course doesn’t take anything away from the fact that it’s a tough world out there and you have to fight, fight and fight.
I’ve been hooked to FiveThirtyEight.com since Brett Hurt told me about it a few weeks ago. And not only because Nate Silver, a successful baseball statistician is predicting Obama’s victory’s next week — but also because it reminded me that statistics can help you accurately predict the outcome of just about anything.
And he’s got a good sense of humour. Watch him on the Colbert Report:
Is it just me or the games are a great motivator to get out and run? It’s great to see the athletes compete, some win, others just participate. In general, sports play a huge part in my life. I don’t really follow professional sports (with the exception perhaps of Formula 1 racing and soccer), so for me, sport is more than anything a personal experience.
I’ve learned a lot while running, windsurfing, biking or playing soccer. Sports is good for the body, but it also tells you tiny little life lessons - many of them apply to my entrepreneurial life. Persistence, hard work, and patience to see results. Motivation and drive to surpass your natural capibilities. Class in defeat or victory. And of course the burning desire to be the number one.
Everyone was talking about it at Starbucks this AM. We even got interviewed by a Mercury News reporter.
It was pretty strong and about 10-20 seconds. It felt like riding the subway in Paris at times, but of course way more scary because we didn’t know right then if this was the “big one” that’s supposed to be overdue.
Sort of interesting the fact that when this kind of things happen, you instinctively try to call someone on the phone. Nothing like a nice 5.6 shake up 6 or 7 miles from your house to put a few things into perspective.
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