What is a prayer ...
Is there someone listening to your prayers? I don't believe
so but still why do people (we) pray?
Why can't we pray to a person and why are we looking at something
which we don't know whether exist or NOT ..
Why not pray to a person we know...
It is something like telling things to your closest friend or wife ... but the
issue there with the friend or wife will judge us for all what we are saying
so we cannot pray to them ... because we will meet them again and the
judged personality from you will be open to him/her.
Precisely the point...So, we create a person who will listen
to us without judging ... even if he judges he never tells
that back. So if you can tell something to someone without
being judged is the best thing one can expect.
Prayer is ...
That and telling someone your problems (or more generally,
your life situation) without any fear of being judged as a
result…
Friday, November 13, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
What is wrong with tropical people!!!
How westerners treat themselves and others.
They treat them (selves and others) with analytic, reasoning and not with much
emotion. There is always bio-driven selfishness to be accounted
but, leaving that.... they seems to me are more reasonable and accountable.
On the other hand ... Indians treat even business with
emotion. Why?
Is it so in other countries of tropical-region? Is the climate
and environment makes this mental habit or behavior?
I started writing this blog after reading a blog about "Jesus Vs economics".
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/the-greatest-question-ever-asked/
I went through 40+ responses to this and look at the responses
Westerners treat even Jesus with reasoning. If the same question have
been asked even about Gandhi (leave alone Indian god). The
response if unedited would not be readable. I am sure.
What is wrong with this tropical living creatures (Indians).
Kasi
P.S. just a rant.
They treat them (selves and others) with analytic, reasoning and not with much
emotion. There is always bio-driven selfishness to be accounted
but, leaving that.... they seems to me are more reasonable and accountable.
On the other hand ... Indians treat even business with
emotion. Why?
Is it so in other countries of tropical-region? Is the climate
and environment makes this mental habit or behavior?
I started writing this blog after reading a blog about "Jesus Vs economics".
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/the-greatest-question-ever-asked/
I went through 40+ responses to this and look at the responses
Westerners treat even Jesus with reasoning. If the same question have
been asked even about Gandhi (leave alone Indian god). The
response if unedited would not be readable. I am sure.
What is wrong with this tropical living creatures (Indians).
Kasi
P.S. just a rant.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
SMS business idea
SMS business.
Here is an idea i have been thinking about... and even proposed to someone in this space.
Though the Idea is good (according to me ha..ha...ha..) ... making it work is
a big challenge.
I call it "Pincode.com" ... this name is probably influenced by reading somewhere...probably rajesh-jain's blog.
You tell me (through sms) where you are right now with your pincode... i will give you what is exciting right now happening in the pincode.
Exciting: Events, Sale (discounts), Hotels etc.,etc.,
U show my SMS and redeem ...
This is just like creating a virtual world on the SMS-cloud....similar to www ...but a volatile data which vanishes every week or month. Some of the data can be everyday updated (totally contrary to www where the data resides for 10's of years).
What this calls for is million dollar investment to cover even part of a big city like Mumbai or Chennai.
Ultimately this can boil down to page-ranking level which i call "Cell ranking"
Based on cell ranking we can give more to a cell and block a cell....like how a page-ranking works now the Google.
Kasi
Here is an idea i have been thinking about... and even proposed to someone in this space.
Though the Idea is good (according to me ha..ha...ha..) ... making it work is
a big challenge.
I call it "Pincode.com" ... this name is probably influenced by reading somewhere...probably rajesh-jain's blog.
You tell me (through sms) where you are right now with your pincode... i will give you what is exciting right now happening in the pincode.
Exciting: Events, Sale (discounts), Hotels etc.,etc.,
U show my SMS and redeem ...
This is just like creating a virtual world on the SMS-cloud....similar to www ...but a volatile data which vanishes every week or month. Some of the data can be everyday updated (totally contrary to www where the data resides for 10's of years).
What this calls for is million dollar investment to cover even part of a big city like Mumbai or Chennai.
Ultimately this can boil down to page-ranking level which i call "Cell ranking"
Based on cell ranking we can give more to a cell and block a cell....like how a page-ranking works now the Google.
Kasi
Friday, October 2, 2009
The following report and analysis is taken from somewhere ... i thought i
will post it here... to remind to look at it after 10-years ... whether
i fall into this as an entrepreneur ... the report says i have good chance !!! :-)
In any case, here are some of the points from the report that
I found the most interesting.
1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.
2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.
3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds
4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.
5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.
6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.
7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.
8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.
9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.
10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.
11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.
12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.
Which of the above surprises you the most and alters your mental model of what entrepreneurs are like?
will post it here... to remind to look at it after 10-years ... whether
i fall into this as an entrepreneur ... the report says i have good chance !!! :-)
In any case, here are some of the points from the report that
I found the most interesting.
1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.
2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.
3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds
4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.
5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.
6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.
7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.
8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.
9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.
10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.
11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.
12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.
Which of the above surprises you the most and alters your mental model of what entrepreneurs are like?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
One life....
All we got is ... one life.
Think about born again with all your 40+ knowledge 20+energy and 60+wisdom.
We do have the entire 60+ years ahead.
Why i am blabbering about this?
I am 43 now and I feel less enthusiastic about changing the world
i see ... the thought i had when i was 20+.
At 20+ i felt that the whole life is in-front of me to explore.
I repeat... life is in-front of me to explore.
But after reaching 40+ i feel like i have left a lot behind doing
nothing to change the world as i see it.
Even the people i meet and all my friends are not talking about
changing the world and not talking about what is wrong with the world.
Most of them are talking about "how much we have saved"... to lead the
rest of the life..."how much we have earned"... that sounds more like...
i am getting ready to retire and die.
I am now wondering what it would feel like when i am 50+...
Will my friends talk about who are all alive and who are all dead?? and
not about changing the world?
Will that be like i am almost done and let me look for decent
death?
Will that be like I have left all these years doing nothing
and what i am going to do with aching leg, head and spine?
Will that be like I am closer to death and let me look for
things to feed without working?
Are there people who changed the world they saw... after 40?
There are very few .... Am i one of them?
Let me see.
Think about born again with all your 40+ knowledge 20+energy and 60+wisdom.
We do have the entire 60+ years ahead.
Why i am blabbering about this?
I am 43 now and I feel less enthusiastic about changing the world
i see ... the thought i had when i was 20+.
At 20+ i felt that the whole life is in-front of me to explore.
I repeat... life is in-front of me to explore.
But after reaching 40+ i feel like i have left a lot behind doing
nothing to change the world as i see it.
Even the people i meet and all my friends are not talking about
changing the world and not talking about what is wrong with the world.
Most of them are talking about "how much we have saved"... to lead the
rest of the life..."how much we have earned"... that sounds more like...
i am getting ready to retire and die.
I am now wondering what it would feel like when i am 50+...
Will my friends talk about who are all alive and who are all dead?? and
not about changing the world?
Will that be like i am almost done and let me look for decent
death?
Will that be like I have left all these years doing nothing
and what i am going to do with aching leg, head and spine?
Will that be like I am closer to death and let me look for
things to feed without working?
Are there people who changed the world they saw... after 40?
There are very few .... Am i one of them?
Let me see.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Thought and Solar Energy
Here is an interesting comment i made to my colleague today (8th Sep 2009)
I asked him " you look like you are lost in your thoughts"
He said..."yes ... i was thinking about something" "how can anyone
be without thinking"..."We always think".
Then i made this comment out of the blue (which i think i was
thinking about when i was thinking about blogs, teaching, social
media networking !!!).
"Thinking is like Solar energy...free and Wasted". He repeated the same and noded as if he acknowledged my statement "Thinking is like Solar energy...free and wasted".
Then this thought came to my mind...why there are no process
which puts all the thoughts available free and put them into
use (like solar concentrator....).
Damn my thought... that is and was done with text-books, papers,
stories.
Damn my thought... that is what google is doing concentrating the
most searched page on the topic.
Damn my thought... that is what teachers are doing ... delivering
concentrated lessons leanrt over decades.
Damn my thought...
I asked him " you look like you are lost in your thoughts"
He said..."yes ... i was thinking about something" "how can anyone
be without thinking"..."We always think".
Then i made this comment out of the blue (which i think i was
thinking about when i was thinking about blogs, teaching, social
media networking !!!).
"Thinking is like Solar energy...free and Wasted". He repeated the same and noded as if he acknowledged my statement "Thinking is like Solar energy...free and wasted".
Then this thought came to my mind...why there are no process
which puts all the thoughts available free and put them into
use (like solar concentrator....).
Damn my thought... that is and was done with text-books, papers,
stories.
Damn my thought... that is what google is doing concentrating the
most searched page on the topic.
Damn my thought... that is what teachers are doing ... delivering
concentrated lessons leanrt over decades.
Damn my thought...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Yet another number...
Here is another example of our obsession with number...what is so stupidly great about the number 70? If it is 50 or 100 i can understand...what is this 70?
Poland is celebrating the 70th anniversary of WWII....what a crap.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090901/ap_on_re_eu/eu_europe_wwii_anniversary
Poland is celebrating the 70th anniversary of WWII....what a crap.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090901/ap_on_re_eu/eu_europe_wwii_anniversary
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