January 23, 2012
by yo27
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What People Forget about “Who Moved My Cheese?”

The first time when I picked the book “who moved my cheese?”, I thought let me do some children reading which was definitely not what I discovered later. The book had the whole human life in 4 characters of the book which is amazing as we talk about different types of people’s existence. I had no problems in identifying what person or rat I was. The book is worthy of a read by childrens to the old age. If there was a mass gift that I needed to pay someone, that would be this book.

So what is it that this book is so astonisihing that I want everyone to read. The book talks about different peoples attitude in difficult times. The real test of person is always in the difficult times, if you could show character at your most difficult times then you are percieved as a strong individual who is ready for the achievers glory.

Most of the friends and family members that I meet belong to the following types as mentioned in the book. Some adapt to rapid changes in their life with respect to both professional and personal life. Sone just adapt after dwelling in a comfort zone for a limited period of time. The rest just dont want to believe in changes, they would want to stick to their comforts and not challenge themselves professionally and personally.

The people who change with rapid changes in their life like when they are not happy with their jobs, with their personal lives. The people instinctively detect the arrival of problems much before other types of people even know about. These are kind who are very proficient with their life who detect the cheese is vanishing. Cheese might be anything like excitement in their romantic life, their jobs and everything else with our lives. They would excercise a lot and be in a better shape to face the challenges ahead of them.

The second type of people are the ones who detect problems when they arrive. They detect when you have no more cheese, they identify the problem and would take a late decision to hunt for new cheese. These people are the late realizers who eventually move out of the comfort zone to tackle new challenges and get on with the cheese hunt. The kinds would have regret for waiting over a problem. The types of people are late learners, I would call who eventually get on with their life and not cry about.

Finally there are people who never change and complain about the lack of opportunities to them by some divine intervention. The lazist people of all types, they dont want to accept changes and move ahead but would want to stick to their beliefs that things are going to change for the better. They are happy in their comfort zone and would not want to move from their comfort zone. These are the people who dont identify the problems, they dont work to solve it.

Every person in the world belong to these three kinds. I am definitely in the third group, failing to identify the problem at hand. Time to definitely move on to higher levels. The only stopping factor is the risk involved.

“Who Moved My Cheese ? ” …. well the cheese just got over.. search for new cheese..

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October 22, 2011
by yo27
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Yumm .. Yumm.. Startups

I will be talking about some of my favourite startups. The startups that have really impressed me with its ingineous technique, innovative solution and heart touching answers to the worlds most common problems. The startups could be either profitable or non profitable organisation.

The angle of view will be from my eyes and could be subject controversies. I will justify my views about my description of these startups. Though to the common mans eye we see only tech startups as the actual startups. I will be covering a vast areas of startups from tech to non tech subjects like biotechnology, services, computers, internet and so on.

Some of my favourite would definitely include dropbox, cloudflare and several others. I will be leaving out the big companies as in facebook, google, twitter. Though the line between big and small may mean a very little.

I will be exploring areas of startups history, their business model and the culture of the startup. Will be exploring the startup culture in india where recently much emphasis as been laid on building product based business model than the usual service based business model that india is famously known for.

So let’s explore the yummy startups thats trying to make the world a better place to live in.

October 16, 2011
by yo27
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Productivity at an upcoming startup

Productivity is definitely an important parameters for any organisation. Whether big or small, the productivity would be a measure of the companies success or failure. Productivity is usually lower incase of bigger companies compared to smaller ones.

An upcoming startup that I like to define, was trying to measure the productivity in the startup. The quantity of work is definitely low compared to our regular jobs. But the productivity is not about quantity. Its all about quality with consideration to iota of time. The startup culture is so happazard, no rules defined and no deadlines. Thus there is no measure of productivity.

I have been domain scrapper sitting on lot of domains, waiting to produce some amazing things. That has been largely halted by the fact that I have a regular job to attend. Though the labour laws of india, mandate only 8 hours of work but its usually not the case by indian MNCs. The enthusiasm for doing something different from the rest will keep me uninterested about the day job. So the productivity is only during weekends and late night coding period. The weekends are the unwinding hours where you would need to rest and stop thinking about anything mildly related to coding or even computers. Thus the productivity is at its minimum. The late night hours of weekdays are usually so tiring that the bed would be much better option then sitting in front of your laptop.

Usually I carry around a book to note, some nitty bitty ideas that arise with every passing moment. To ensure this becomes a reality, I need to have time or the ability to get it done by someone.

Time is really running out with respect to building a startup or an enterprise as you know the age is such a limiting factor. I will stop complaining about indians having to marry and all the shit. Let me put a month of effort towards this upcoming startup, hope it turns out well. Productivity will rule the day, if you are productive in your work – the light will always be at the end of tunnel.

October 9, 2011
by yo27
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The Uncultured

Are we cultured enough, what is cultured by the way ? Through out my stay at Chennai, I have always been told people in Chennai are more cultured in comparission to any other place in India. Is wearing jasmine and bindi determine our culture. Does having culture make you more superior or may be inferior. The thoughts are racing out, too many questions and too few answers that could be considered as answers of the present generation.

The culture is what differentiates us from the animals. It is the cultureless animals that enter it to life or death duels and incur great loss to its lives and other animal lives. Though, we have seen some amazing moments of animals showing culture oriented approach towards life, they are cases of exception. So does that mean showing love to each other make you more cultured, the answer would be a big no and a small yes. This is a starting process of the culture was assimilated in humans. The Homo sapiens are alive over neandrethals, only for this reason. That humans were able to blend it to much different environment and adjust with several humans to face the tough conditions that forced them to live. The base of culture lays in our understanding of each other.

Let me jump from the pre historic times to the medival times when culture was completely misunderstood for religion. Being religious was to be called as being cultured. This has passed on to the present culture, where this assumption is still valid. In the medival times, the non religion people were clearly considered as those who defined to break the routines that they were following for a long time. Thus the breakage of culture, which never defined as human culture.

The present as it is the culture is still considerably more of the blind routines that I follow in temples, churches, mosque and so other devotional place. The world is growing at such a alarming rate, ravaging through the vast dense forests thereby harming what I believe the culture of the flora and fauna. The globalization has led to an epic scale disaster of culture. My parents would very much oppose my marriage to another sect of humans as they call, I believe the opposite of their thoughts. If in future, I did marry a girl from another sect, it would mean I would fight so hard to preserve my culture of my family and not as in forget my culture. The so called, same sect marriage would make us more careless then ever thus neglecting our culture.

The culture is definitely the most complex thing ever encountered. Not much real though has been given to this, thus allowing people to assume as desired. The office that I work in, is definitely a perfect example for these kind of antics. When a girl or a boy would wear a ethnic wear, there is lot of culture upholding being talked over. So are we living a lie by not being cultured every day of our life except on the ethnic days.

The culture is not decided by color of dress we wear, rituals of being religious or the other absurd habits of human beings. The cultured are the people who are humane to the existence of other human beings. The culture has become emulsion with religion, we the youth would need to tell the world – its not. Culture is that phenomenon of intelligence that has been  carried over and over, so the humans can co-exist with each other.

October 9, 2011
by yo27
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Why Eminem is cool, and you are not..

Shaking head to the white rapper, who has influenced the whole generation of youth. There are lots of people, who call themselves fans of metallica, the gay bieber and the porn pop stars who they often forget after they grow out of teenage or the college years. The rappers are here to live for a long time. The rappers spitting fire, everytime they open their bloodying little mouths.

The cool thing about the rappers are they have all experienced life and can relate to the life the commons like us lead. Though I am talking about a larger percentage of rappers , the few others could be summed up as rebels. The brotherhood in between the rappers is awesome, they believe the brother is an extension of their body. Coming to why the rappers are cool, they lead a life full of freedom and always being high. Ask anyone, what they would want to be all the time. You would get answers most likely in meaning to being happy. That is what you are when you are leading life with freedom. Addition to that they are always high on drugs or alchol and other ways.

Now, to what eminem is to me and all the other fans out their. Eminem raps with his soul, keeps his whole sad life in the song. He always tries to tell us, our life is much better than his. This brings us to hope that their are much fucked up people then what we ought to think. Eminem is a pure soul, that I ain’t see in my parents or any other elders. Eminem speaks and does what he says. We need people like him to guide us. People who can act like role models and not the fucking radio which is just one way of communication. The present generation parents are trying to make a change by giving scope for our thoughts, but still to no good. Eminem will be an hero forever for he is what he is for me.

You refers to all the wannabe kids, parents and others who want to be cool as eminem, fuck it. You will never be cool.

September 22, 2011
by yo27
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How I am “Sane” and the World is “Insane”…

Why does every human think that he is the Sane one and the Insane one is the one who is standing next to him standing on his head. The rule of the law is the man standing on his head feels the same about the man beside him. The same goes with the sanity and insanity of the cultures that we are experiencing, while the youth believe what we are doing is right and the old feel that they are doing the right thing. The fact is either of them are correct relative to there ownself.

The world would have been a better place, if some scientist invented a machine where the other person could understand his point of view. Not even that may be required, if parents could teach every kid on this planet that there are different views on this earth. The world would have turned to heaven today. Why dont parents teach us new things, why dont they go away from traditional methods. They are really afraid of experimenting with the kids life and they want to make a sheep out of the kids. I would not have been complaining if my parents had thought me to be different from the world and encouraged me to be different. I hate being a mediocre, the whole world hates being one. But all the time we are referred to as, if u are not being mediocre you wont make the daily food and the shelter. Food and shelter would really matter when there is a famine condition around. The reason we act so may be due to the act of preparation of ourselves to this famine which is always scheduled by whole set of people who live on this earth with fear of death at any second.

I very much feel that the people who are called Insane are the people who are actually normal human being.

September 15, 2011
by yo27
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Tomorrow Comes, the GRE will come too…

I am writing this on a day before my GRE, when i was supposedly needed to be studying all the word list or the mathematical formula’s to crack the gateway to US. I am unprepared,may be this is not the first time as previously my Engineering exams were attended with minimal preparations. The GRE seems to confuse me on why do we need to study English for that I am planning to do my Masters in Science in BioInformatics, should not they be testing my biology level. The universities feel the test on English will prove that i can excel in procuring the Master Degree. Though this has been a debate on why the bright students need to be in better schools and the poor students (by marks) need to be in a mediocre or below average schools. I hate to admit that students need to be accessed in much better manner than weighing their marks with other students. Should we not be considered differently then the groceries that they sell in Stores. They weigh us(by marks) basically to understand how qualified we are at procuring degrees. The students goal has turned out be the goal of getting a job, earning hefty pay packages and finally living lavish lives. Doesn’t this resemble the general story of every student, could not I live little different then all the students do. Could I cross over to a different level of thinking and still be not called the Black sheep in a White family.

Coming back to the topic of GRE, I don’t know whether my essay tomorrow is gonna come be properly organised and with lot of grammatically correct sentences. Does these things really can be achieved by 6 months of studying, I doubt. All the Exams, I have attended or heard of talk about a time limit at answering questions whether it might be a multiple choice questions or a paragraph length answers. Why should an Exam be time bound at the first place, Do you need to test every student by keeping him on a time bomb like “this will explode in 3 hours”. Though in real life the decisions are taken in a much more faster way. Is the society really preparing us in the right manner for the real life. Many of us would agree that exams and the present way of educational system is not good enough for the real world. I would reason it as because, no one ever defined the real world and no one could ever define it. The art of measurement though existed from early B.C. times. Did we ever look at measuring things differently. It was always about who could memorize this list of words and who could do this maths problem in a jiffy. No one ever thought whether he knows the meaning of all the words that he has memorized and his method of solving the problem in math is worth the effort or is it a solution with minimal mistakes. The all new Revised GRE is trying to do some of these, they have altered a large portion of the pattern of the exams. This was brought in by observation that the Post graduation level of studies require more of intellectual prowess then the memorizing ability. I believe this a small change that would eventually grow into other areas of examination.

The only other wish, I have is that people start respecting intellectual people then the beauty kings and queens of this world. The IQ of the world is definitely going down with the Newspapers and the Visual Media trying to put more focus on the not-so-important part of humans life. The media will always take a blame, but this blame is deeply rooted in the few people who are lazy enough to do nothing but gossip or chat about this not-so-important thing. Humans are socialized animals and we tend to be more at discussing the latest not-so-important thing then what is actually required in the life of every human. I am guilty of doing such an act, may be because i am addicted to it. The addiction as taken me to a different level of Cloud where i am not been able to understand what is Important in life. Is it the money or is it the fame, and importantly will you be famous by being more technical in your approach towards life. The MBA’s  and the Executives are haunting the life of this poor intellectuals. Though a great engineering innovation is much appreciated, the small innovations like the one in Discovery Channel about Indian Innovators are neglected.

I hope, One day a more technical person like me could achieve a small innovations and still be famous or be rich :P .

The GRE is tomorrow, may be this was a more of a practice essay writing on a day before. After listening/Watching to the lovely drizzle of Rain , here in Bangalore. The ease of life and the fulfillment of joy by the kids around. It all boils down under to should anyone be leaving India to earn Money. Though  I can understand that there will be no respect that everyone strives to achieve by either being famous or rich.

Patting on my back once again, I move ahead in striving to achieve greatness in a modest manner as possible. Hope the words and math, that i expect to see tomorrow don’t dance around my head in circles. Lets get this done, change the way students are perceived for their intellectual capacity.

Happy Engineers Day…for people back in India..