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Valentine’s Day

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On Friday, our kids, Anya and Kyan, prepared dinner for Christina and I for Valentine’s Day. They did almost everything including setting up the table, preparing starters (pâté de campagne), a big salad and dessert (biscuits topped with chocolate and almond).

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After dinner, they gave us nice cards, all made by themselves. Kyan did his at school while Anya did hers in secrecy after school.

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As you can easily imagine, Christina and I were delighted. The food was nice. The cards were beautiful. And we enjoyed being together. Since quite a few years, Christina and I avoid going to restaurants on Valentine’s Day for dinner. We much prefer to be together, have something nice to eat and drink and have fun!

A nugget of wisdom on how to be successful in life

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During an IAmA (I Am A) on Reddit, Colonel Peter Mansoor, former executive officer to General David Petraeus during the surge in Iraq and now a professor of military history at the Ohio State University, offered the following nugget of wisdom on how to be successful in life:

  1. Get as much education as you can.
  2. Marry well and for life.
  3. Start saving early and make it a habit.
  4. Find something you love, and figure out how to make money doing it.

I love #4. He naturally mentioned that “#4 is tough for a lot of people, but if you can pull it off you never work a day in your life.”

I wonder how many of us in Mauritius really find something they love doing and actually do it on an everyday basis?

I do. At Knowledge Seven. Being an entrepreneur is about trying to do #4 every day of your life, failing numerous times, until you finally succeed.

Do you?

TV is dead. The Internet is alive.

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TV is dead.

This whole conversation about whether we should have local content on hypothetical local TV channels is quite irrelevant.

The Internet, and YouTube in particular, has replaced TV.

Young people don’t watch TV. Even old people are watching less TV given the prevalence of tablets and smartphones. Read this Business Insider article.