Thoughts from the heights of an abyss
From the category archives:
To Mr.Terrorist
You have kindly consented to spread our lands with the terror and blood and followed up your willingness with action. No doubt immense co-ordination, effort and dark expertise has been expended in this matter and the fruits are apparent for all to see. However I wish to point out that all this effort is [...]
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How many times have you read or heard something and thought, ‘ah, that is what is bugging me!’. Today I had such a moment, while reading an essay of Paul Graham titled “You weren’t meant to have a boss”.
It starts with Paul observing a bunch of programmers on some “team-building” exercise and a hunch that [...]
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It is not often that a book grabs you by the scruff in the very first line and this one does! In the author’s own words the goal is to use “myths about innovation to understand how innovation happens“. And it starts with…
By idolizing those whom we honor we do a disservice both to [...]
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My first job was to market a project management software. My very first demo was to a 20 strong audience. I sat in front of a machine with Windows 3.1, a handful of floppy disks and I did not have the faintest clue of what I needed to do. After a few phone calls to [...]
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(This was a question asked by someone on LinkedIn, have posted my response below)
It was a dusty, moth-eaten fragment of a book. Its papers crumbled at the touch, one had to handle it like when holding a butterfly. I was fascinated by the occasional line drawings in its pages, the content was incomprehensible to my [...]
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Here is one more proof that ideas in themselves are not good and bad. It is what they are used for which determines which side of the fence they are on.
YouTube, that popular purveyor of nubile young things in very little attire and general muck, has been put to good use. Via Seth Godin I [...]
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The IT guy’s role is so ubiquitous that its one of those roles ripe for polarized opinions. Found this link via SteveC’s blog on a IT guy’s rant towards those who seek his help. Read through and you will find the thoughts fairly justified, but a proceed to the comments and check a comment by [...]
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What yardstick will you make irrelevant? What myths dispel? What standards of ‘normal’ will you demolish? Which of your personal prejudices will you leave behind? What weaknesses squash? Whose hero or heroine will you be today? Whose savior? What mark will you leave upon this world?
In all that you do, ask yourself what you will [...]
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Recently I had visited one of the offices of the company I work for. The office was a networked via walkways between a cluster of buildings over a few streets. Being my first visit, I was confused every time I had to negotiate the journey from point A to B.
This was a modern [...]
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Man is an enigma.
For all his assured poise in regard to the external world, his position when it comes to questions on himself is shaky at best. Am not talking about the fundamental questions of existence, this is something more immediate, the who we are now, how we came to be thus and what [...]
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