Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Entrepreneurship.....

Today I am thinking of entrepreneurship, a very exciting and dear subject for me. I have always been interested in doing something, which takes me away from the feeling of working under a lot of constraints.

My definition of entrepreneurship actually differs a lot from definition you get at
Wikipideia entrepreneurship I have always seen entrepreneurship as a freedom call. Freedom from all the work I have to do and do what I want to do.

If you look at websites, companies you will find small ideas carved into a beautiful concept, executed in an excellent way. Networking websites likes linkedin, facebook, myspace and then the next set of enhancing applications like http://www.kartoo.com/ or spock.com - a constant en devour to enhance the functionality, usability etc. All these things excites me a lot since I always wanted to do something which gets me excited, which challenges me, something which I say "I created". I know a lot of people who have left their established careers at the peak for doing something, which to an untrained eye looks like a mundane work. But the satisfaction of doing what you want to do is unparalleled and one has to enjoy it firsthand, no words to describe.

I still remember my first software program I sold (a very basic accounting program I wrote in Dbase III) when I was 14 years old. The money I got in return was way too less compared to my efforts yet it was most rewarding. Satisfaction is a state of mind and no one can explain this.

I feel the process of growing up kills the creativity, as a child the world seemed simple I thought of doing almost every profession possible in the world. Those dreams and creativity couldn't survive the harsh reality. But I think giving up on your dreams and creativity is the first step of growing older. Believing in yourself and trying to live up to your dreams is getting younger.

For me Entrepreneurship in other words is growing younger....!!

Monday, July 23, 2007

Lifestyle.....

The other day I was discussing with one of my friend and we started talking about afford ability.

He had absolute number (well he is a financial and risk Management Analyst) like a person having x salary should be able to afford a house of around 4.5x cost. We had a lengthy discussion on the numbers etc and how it is being calculated.

But now when I look back at it I think the whole concept of afford ability is relative. You can see people with the same salary having a different life style, driving different kind of cars and so on.

I think the lifestyle can be attributed to certain personal traits...like Family upbringing and impact of that upbringing, personal constraints like earnings and responsibilities, passion and risk taking capabilities etc.

I have been watching a lot of people and thinking how they analyze afford ability of certain thing. My realizations is afford ability is a concept, which people try to apply on day to day expenditure, long term investments, big expense items but avoid to consider it when human emotions like passion, love, envy are involved.

I guess I need to analyze more and understand in deep how people spend, what are those things which tick people to consider something as affordable or not...!!
If you have some interesting theory or observation, let me know.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

WiFi...!!

I don't think life with out internet is possible now...whoever disagrees please let me know why are you reading this blog.

Well think over just a decade back information was something which was acquired, written or passed on to selected ones. Now it is something which is readily available, can be googled and every one has the power to get it.

My thought is not actually on internet it is the way we get it.....WiFi. Look around everyone is just doing WiFi. Cafes, markets, streets, home, offices, mobile phone(http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58377.html), Automobiles. I mean every one is selling, creating or marketing on single functionality WiFi. Isn't it amazing that how seamlessly all these things are moving into our lifestyle. You are lost on a road you used to ask directions, later on you started using maps on google, now your cars navigates you. Your cell phone, your car everything seems to be having access to infinite wisdom (Internet)

I loved this whole idea of having everything WiFi, every appliance, equipment should have WiFI, Bluetooth, internet access.
And soon this whole world will be integrated with no boundary. I am woken up early by my alarm clock" because I have an early meeting or I have gained weight and I should go to gym. My bath is ready and my breakfast is getting ready while I am soaking.
I sit in the car it navigates and drives me to office, where I WORK. My refrigerator orders for all the supplies I am running low, to my grocery store.
It might seem like watching a sci fi but I am sure wi fi will make this a reality pretty soon.
read these interesting articles
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-gadgets-of-the-future

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/fetishwish.html

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/12/19/9_military_tech.html

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Faith....

A lot of you must have already read, visited and experienced the phenomenon of Facebook, a social community based website. This company was founded by a Harvard student in 2004 and right now it is valued at around $12 billion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Isn't it amazing how a small concept can be so big...well in continuation to that check out about ConnectU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU

In a nut shell

Owners of ConnectU (Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss) filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, had stolen both concept and source code intended for a website they'd asked him to build for them. [1][2]

In November of 2003, ConnectU had engaged Mark Zuckerberg, then a sophomore at Harvard, to complete the computer programming for their website. Upon joining the ConnectU team, Zuckerberg was given complete unfettered access to the website code. Allegedly, Zuckerberg intentionally hampered the development of ConnectU while using code originally intended for ConnectU in the development of Facebook.

Not sure if this is true but it is sickening. Imagine it being false then your friend is trying to steal from your success and pushing you in legal problems. If it is true it is even more sickening. You believe on your friend and share your idea, concept, work & everything. And the guy exploits the idea and takes the complete credit.

I remember having discussions with friends in school and college, talking about various new ideas, products etc. We never really thought of copyright or patenting exercise. If this kind of incidents happen regularly, imagine how dramatic can be impact on our social lifestyle. People will not be able to talk freely or discuss on new ideas.

Have we lost the basic element of humanity...trust.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Think for a second.....

Sometimes don't you think , why do I do a lot of things I don't enjoy at all.

I am always afraid to dwell upon this subject "why do we do something we don't enjoy". Today I am going to fight my daemons.

I am sure you must have gone to numerous parties you don't enjoy or talked to people you can't stand. So the question is why we do that...is it the social responsibility, is it something we do because we never really gave much thought on it or we do it in hope we might start enjoying it.

Well here what I think....(you might not agree so go ahead and send me your thoughts)
We do a lot of things just because they are inbred in our mind since we are born. I remember being told to be polite, suppress my freedom of speech & thinking because it might offend some one. Initially it was just a matter of our parents, teachers, relatives, friends telling us how to be normal in this society.
Guess what, time passes and you are one of them, you loose individuality. You can't do something which is against the social boundaries. This thinking grows so strong that It is difficult for us to break the mold. We stop thinking about if there is any other way...
We do things we don't like and we keep on doing them.

I am not saying we should be a rebel and start breaking all social rules. I think we should seriously look at the things we don't enjoy and still have to do them. You might find a way to make it enjoyable or may be get out it.

All we need is "think for a second"