learnings & thoughts
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US generally has been a consumer oriented society; this means people consume more than they can produce. This is actually an interesting premise. We are now talking about consuming goods versus producing them. Now consuming by its very nature is limited by a boundary of limitation of resource to consume more. Whether its food grain [...]
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I have never really been a big fan of social networking. I quite think that this is a fad which is going to or aleady has suck up a lot of investor capital and then go bust! Its only a matter of time. Foursquare raising another round of funding with a particular two paragraphs caught [...]
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Most of the ‘technical problems’ in the world are really ‘not so technical’. Infact they are so simple that you waste time thinking about them. Most “technical” aspects cease to be “technical” once the right information is known. So the key to making quick decisions and the “problems” are really Information Gaps. If you plug [...]
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Google Wave tries to solve email. SAP is trying to solve email. But does email really need fixing? Why don’t people fix their communication instead? Technology traditionally helps in advancing poor habits. There used to be a time not so long ago when i didn’t have a mobile phone; neither did any of my friends. [...]
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This is really only a needless rebuttal to Mr. Scobleizer’s assertion that the companies which he has stated are really hot! No Sir, with all due respect, they really are not. They are probably cool tools but just that. For years i have wondered why do people make essentially stupid concepts and others hype it [...]
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I have always been intrigued when people say they have been too busy! People are never too busy. It just means their priorities are not where YOU have them. Period! Then there are people who are so supposedly smart. One of my friends the other day remarked how the erstwhile CEO of the erstwhile Enron [...]
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Measure not by ‘time’ but by work done! The guys who GET this, will never have problem with the amount of hours you put in. …there is really no honestly only a perception of it. The more layers you peel off, the more you find underneath.
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Too often people at work are also falsely led into believing something untrue because they fail to see a deeper connection. We have been doing better at our finances in recent times with our bank account showing a surplus unheard of earlier. People thought this was mostly due to our customers paying us earlier than [...]
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I hate email! There i said it. I am tired of trying to integrate our company into one unified platform. Google Apps do not work under proxy, Outlook is slow and way too expensive. ZOHO is way too slow. I decided to list the few things that i/we need and the possible options. We want [...]
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One of the prime challenges we had been facing were concerned with priority. People just do not seem to understand priority. Traditionally priority has to be assigned by a person ‘in the know’ or by the team lead. He establishes the process and sets it in motion. The others follow the leader and work runs [...]
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