Thursday morning personal notes - Cool Summer Edition

I forget where I read these, but here are some Personal Time Management Fundamentals.

• Whatever gets your time, for better or worse, gets strengthened.
• Those things that receive the greatest quantity, highest quality, most precious focus and greatest time grow the most.
• Whatever gets no time eventually dies.

One of my favorite quotes:

If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Books I Read...

• I finished the book Den of Thieves. It made me damn proud to be an American. Some amazing people gave their careers to bring to justice the insider trading ruckus of the 1980's.
• I read Predator's Ball a few months ago and I used to be sort of obsessed with the idea of Michael Milken. Sorry if this is cliche for my older readers, but when Milken was the most popular financier in the world I was only three or four years old. What I liked about Mike was that he was someone who woke up at 3:30am every day and worked for 12 or 15 hours. Reading Den of Thieves put that idea in its place. After finishing the last chapter of the book, my heart was racing and I just went and sat in my car to think for a while.
• A quote from p408 said that one of the protagonists walked around the office with a big button that said,

  STRESS
  That's what happens when the mind overrides the body's need to kick the shit out of someone who justly deserves it.

And finally, non-military aircraft in the United States operate on different rules and regulations. Here is my understanding of the three major categories.

• Part 91 - General Aviation (all aviation other than military or commercial)
• Part 121 - Major passenger airlines and cargo flights
• Part 135 - On-demand Charter operations, Scheduled flights with fewer than ten seats, and unscheduled cargo flights

Also, did you know that any aircraft with more than 19 seats is required by law to have a flight attendant? And NetJets can offer charter-like service (Part 135) at Part 91 rates because everyone "buys" a pretend share of their aircraft.

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