My distilled thoughts.
Thoughts manifest themselves before senses know & before intellect can touch them.
They are like the air bubbles sitting beneath a lotus leaf.
You notice their escape and popping at the surface only when you are calm enough.
This “Micro Blog” is my attempt to write down some of those thoughts.
There is no small work; only work done small.
Integrity : Every action you take, however small, increases or decreases your integrity. Mindfulness is not just a fad, it has very real implications.
When shit hits the fan, either stop shitting or stop the fan. Covering your head and running around the room seldom helps.
Consistently late people should be consistently avoided.
Bored ?
Go over your TODO list.
If TODO list is boring, you haven't added an 'actionable item' to your TODO list.
Do that right now since you are bored anyways !
If evolution was flawless, our farts would be odorless. A smelly fart would only attract predators, and, drive away everyone around you who could possibly save your ass ( pun intended ).
Procrastinators have 8 days in a week. Sunday, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat & 'NotToday'. Everything happens on the 8th day 🙂
Is this book worth my time ?
- Go to amazon.com
- Find the book
- Scroll down to the 'Shared notes & Highlights' section
- Read through what people have highlighted
Norm Brodsky’s 10 Commandments of business
- Numbers run a business. If you don’t know how to read them, you’re flying blind.
- Cash is hard to get and easy to spend. Make it before you spend it.
- Don’t focus on the top line. Gross margin is the most important number on the income statement.
- A sale isn’t a sale until you collect.
- When your short-term liabilities exceed your short-term assets, you’re bankrupt.
- Forget about shortcuts. Run a business as if it’s forever.
- Identify your true competitors, and treat them with respect.
- You have no friends in business, only associates.
- Culture drives a company. In the long run, the boss’s most important job is to define and enforce it.
- The life plan has to come before the business plan.
World without hate
- Ever seen a valley without peaks - probably not. And if one exists it's not as beautiful as a valley with peaks
- Stagnation is death. A world without hate has no where to flow.
- Don't wish for a world without hate. In-fact love cannot survive without hate. As soon as you say Love, hate is born, and vice-versa.
- Let there be a balance of love & hate inside you. You will visit the deep valleys of love and you'll also climb the stormy peaks of anger.
- You will need both. You cannot eat sweet for the rest of your life, you will need some salt.
- Don't fall for a saint, he is confused if he says that world should have nothing but love. He has just swung way too much to one side. One day he'll swing back. And eventually find the balance. In that center, is the peace and calm.
Life changing habit -
- Keep a work journal - Any tool will do, EverNote, OneNote, a notepad; anywhere other than your memory
- I've surprised at myself, to see how much more productive I am when I can find things in less than 60 seconds
- Especially true when running a complicated project which runs 6+ months
If nothing is impossible, something being 'impossible' is possible. Hence there is something which is impossible !
And the reply was - 'All I will be known for, will be for what I did, and not for what I have'.
Saying this he threw away the backpack, his last possession, and ran away with a wide smile on his face..
What every project manager should know when he calls for a meeting with developers : http://goo.gl/N3TEfU
In the vast fields of Today.
I see patches of sorrow.
So I toil and sow the seeds.
To blossom bliss Tomorrow.
Artificial Intelligence
- We will create machines smarter than us in the next 50 years.
- The question is - should we ?
- Yes, we should, we as humans have to go where we previously haven't.
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However, a few questions should be thought of first :
- Should we provide them autonomous status - same rights as humans ? If we don't then we'll be creating a species of slaves. Can our conscious allow us to do that ?
- If we provide them the same rights as humans and if the machines commit crimes, who is responsible ? The machines themselves or us ? On a second thought, do Gods blame themselves for our sins or is it all our responsibility ?
- If they create another species, the way we created, who will be responsible for their actions ?
- Will these 2nd generation species look at us the way we look at an elephant ? Beautiful, but at the end a simple organism, who won't understand the complexities of our world. Will they ever say - 'Lets destroy their forests(buildings) and build ourselves a city.'
- If we don't sit and think about this, we will face the same fate as that of an over-enthusiastic crazed person who runs towards a cliff trying to see what's down below and he has no control on his speed.
- Should we provide them autonomous status - same rights as humans ? If we don't then we'll be creating a species of slaves. Can our conscious allow us to do that ?
- If we provide them the same rights as humans and if the machines commit crimes, who is responsible ? The machines themselves or us ? On a second thought, do Gods blame themselves for our sins or is it all our responsibility ?
- If they create another species, the way we created, who will be responsible for their actions ?
- Will these 2nd generation species look at us the way we look at an elephant ? Beautiful, but at the end a simple organism, who won't understand the complexities of our world. Will they ever say - 'Lets destroy their forests(buildings) and build ourselves a city.'
Show me you aren't doing this just for the sake of doing it!
Show me your work matters to you !!
Show me that you effing CARE !!!
Don't try to find a saint in a Human. You'll be disappointed.
There was no perfect human born.
Humans die first; and usually then someone makes them perfect.
When was the last time you had an original idea ?
Not regurgitating what you read, not blindly rethinking what you saw on the internet, but pure unadulterated original thought ?
Where do I see google 50 years from now ?
My search query is a thought and I get the answer as a summary read/shown to me.
It connects my search to the history of my searches understanding what I was trying to search.
e.g. oh you are searching for 'BCAA because earlier you wanted to know what protein shake is good for you post workout'
I ask for processing data in my thoughts and the data mining happens without me writing an app./hosting it.
Millions of such projects are created and destroyed in a day - Google becomes my extended brain.
One question for making the correct decision in software projects : 'If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over.'
Get shit done.
Get shit done.
Get shit done.
Doesn't matter how small.
Doesn't matter how boring.
Doesn't matter how technical.
Doesn't matter how non-technical.
Get shit done.
'A project manager in IT industry does not need to be technical.'
Holy pickled farts...
Only if there was a 'wronger' statement...
Deep down people want to work with people who so deeply care about their work..
The ones who care about every design decision
The ones who care about how we write an email to clients
The ones who are curious all the time..
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It is when you hold the rock close to your heart, that it starts weeping.
And then you know, that all along it was you, who was the rock.
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When all was said & done, they asked him about his wisdom. They asked him how he could see the future. It can be summed up in one sentence he said This too shall pass
Forget the 'for the dummies' series.
I'm going to write Risk Management books for street smart PMs. Title ?
'Shit happens, whatcha gonna do bout it ?!'
What would XYZ think about me ?
Reasons why you shouldn't be bothered with this question :
- You are trying to show XYZ someone you aren't - Don't
- Step back and think why you won't have this question in your mind for people you love !
- It will change XYZ's opinion about you - Let it be, conserve your true self
- It'll hurt them - hmm.. now you are talking, talk to them in that case. You would if you really cared, so go have a heart-to-heart.
99% of the time though, XYZ is too busy with his/her life and has no time to think about you !
His forehead had faint lines.
You could see them, but probably won't feel them if you touched.
Hers had none.
Clean.
The seed of optimism had sprouted and there were only a few tender leaves brightly looking up.
Last few winters were harsh, but the green in the leaves was still fresh.
There was a long road ahead of them.
Crazy = Making Memories = Almost Always Good
Surround yourself with what gives you joy. If it doesn't, get rid of it. If you don't know if it gives you joy, get rid of it. House, office, work, play - the rule applies to all.
Ever seen a successful person who doesn't read ? You never will.
One habit every 21 days, one mini goal every 3 months, one major competency every 3 years. Upgrading self by the calendar.
Diversity, if you are working in a software company should mean -
You are recruited only if you know how to :
a.) Code with comments
b.) Debug
c.) Build
d.) Understand basic design concepts
e.) Deploy
e.) Most importantly : Not be an A**
Above criteria will satisfy all other diversity criteria automatically.
The more I discipline myself, the less the world distracts me.
Whoever says Microsoft sucks, has usually never used OneNote. It is one of the most intuitive note taking editor ever to run on my laptop. This is especially true for me, because I thrive on keyboard short cuts & rarely use the mouse. I avoid using mouse because it slows me down immensely. OneNote just works whether I need to create a simple list, table or take meeting minutes. Hats off.
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