That beautiful state of bliss where nothing else really matters… :)

People change. Life changes. You change! It cant be avoided. Just learn to adapt and live with it.

so much to understand. No time to waste! Not a second!

To the quest for complete knowledge!

Money follows hype. Recognition follows hype. “Success” follows hype. No, they don’t follow excellence.

The truth is that the world has become too big (although we say it is shrinking) for excellence to thrive on its own. There is too much going on that it needs to supported by a good dose of marketing / hype. And the interesting thing is, mediocrity supported by hype will be more recognized because most of us have lost the ability to evaluate something (or even someone) on our own. The “shrinking” world has increased information density tremendously and since there is so much competition, to make information stand out, it is constantly being processed and repackaged.  And we fall for the packaging like sitting ducks. Because it is too much work to evaluate something independently, see? And since we are busy taking in more processed information, lets us just outsource the thinking part. In essence, we are hiring someone else to THINK for us. 

You dont have to keep going forward. Every once in a while, it is wise to take a step back to check your bearings.

Otherwise, you will mindlessly be running all over the place.

In my endeavour to graduate from being a pseudo geek to a real geek, I have been diligently watching Star Trek

Apparently, according to my friend “You are not a geek if you haven’t watched every episode of the star trek series and the movies atleast twice and can recite the Klingon alphabets in reverse.”

Sure, he was exaggerating a bit but I hadnt watched ANY movie or ANY episode of star trek at that point so I was like “What the hell is Klingon?”. I didnt say it to avoid getting disowned ofcourse but I was determined to pass this (hopefully) last test that prevented me from calling myself a geek in front of other geeks.

I lovvvved this post! I think it pretty much sums up all I wanted to say:
http://www.pluginid.com/stop-taking-advice/

To add on though, this is also relevant when we GIVE advice. Very often we feel our advice makes a lot of sense and are annoyed when the other person sees things differently. Well, it perfectly natural. Try as you might, it is impossible to be another person. We don’t have the technology (brain surgery?) to do that yet. The most helpful you can get is to share your experience, share experience others’ experience and share your perspective. And remember, as “right” as you might sound to yourself, you might sound equally “wrong” to the other person and there is nothing contradictory about that.

Recently, my friend and I were talking about giving unconditionally.

Caring about the next person is one thing, caring about the next person without expecting ANY form of future returns is quite another.

What do I mean by unconditional?

You are not giving because you believe that good karma will come back to you in the future. You are not giving to build a relationship. You act of giving is not driven at any level (not even subconsciously) by possible future returns.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

This was recommended to me by a close friend.

He said “Read ALL his articles. Yes, he is THAT good”.

And yes he is THAT good so I want to share it with you. If you are remotely connected to the software industry in any way (and in today’s world, there is very less chance you aren’t), please go read.

Very nice article!
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/manager/2010/09/20/stories/2010092050590600.htm