Quick notes: Best CEOs, Data localization...

• The Best-Performing CEOs, 2018: For the second year in a row, the best-performing CEOs in the world were more likely to have an engineering degree than an MBA. Yet another reason to consider urging your kids to go into engineering.



• US wants to "prohibit" data localization: Major American IT companies are up in arms against the latest Indian directive.



• Sabarimala: Deities & Judges




• Early Time Restricted Feeding (eTRF): Merely restricting the number of hours you ate and moving to an earlier eating schedule, produced huge benefits even in the same person eating the same meals. Mean insulin levels dropped significantly, and insulin resistance dropped as well. Even more remarkable was that even after the washout period of seven weeks, the eTRF group maintained lower insulin levels at baseline. The benefits were maintained even after stopping the time restriction. Blood pressure dropped as well.



• Slaughter-free "clean" meat: "We make meat just out of meat. You just don't need to kill the animal,"



• Forgoing booze: We're taught from an early age that drinking is cool and glamorous. We have to learn for ourselves that it's not.



• Native American Prayer:
  
  Great Spirit,
  Give us hearts to understand
  Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give,
  Never to destroy want only for the furtherance of greed,
  Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty,
  Never to take from her what we cannot use.
  
  Give us hearts to understand
  That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion,
  That to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty,
  That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench,
  That as we care for her she will care for us.
  
  Give us hearts to understand
  We have forgotten who we are.
  We have sought only our own security.
  We have exploited simply for our own ends.
  We have distorted our knowledge.
  We have abused our power.
  
  Great Spirit,
  Whose dry lands thirst,
  Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
  
  Great Spirit, Whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
  Help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.
  
  Great Spirit,
  Whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
  Help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
  
  Great Spirit,
  Whose creatures are being destroyed,
  Help us to find a way to replenish them
  
  Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,
  Help us to find the way to restore our humanity.