you maybe right...

The one thing that I am extremely passionate about is individuality and space. As i stare out in the dark night, I wonder...am i losing it?

I think a couple of months in a life of 70-80 years is irrelevant and does not define you by any standards so not much is lost. But yes you do need reminders, kicks from people around you if they suspect you are not being you.

Another secret I think about life is that there are phases, ups and downs at work and in life in general. The ups are great...but what do you do when things are down?

I suggest be by yourself, maintain a low profile...work on what you like doing...could be blogging, reading, meditating, going on a vacation alone, staying alone at home and listening to your kind of music, pursuing a hobby, spending time with family...whatever it is that helps you reconnect with your self.

The self has tremendous power...its true you can make things happen...all you need is to reconnect with yourself to understand whats happening around you and in a second things change.

We all at times loose the connection - you need to repair it and live on.

Now thats the easy part - the tougher is actually understanding why you lost that connection. A loss in connection I guess happens when you get too busy at times at work, at times thinking about others, at times by just spending too much time on non constrictive thoughts. It may also happen because of conditioning - a change in life and you do not know how conditioning and past experiences have worked on your subconscious mind and you behave as you must and not maybe not as you want to.

What is important is to realize....work upon it and there you are as good as new.. or should I say as good as your old self ;)

The world is getting closer...

I cannot begin to explain how much I appreciate the internet...

Being an avid surfer and blogger... I must go a step ahead and say..that the contribution of the internet for making me stay in touch with the person I am ( i.e. without defining who exactly I am :) ) is tremendous...makes me want to make some big contribution back to the world wide web...Just dont' know yet what its going to be.

Its easy to wander off in life...yet the one para you read in someones blog just reconnects you with yourself... Today it was shekhar kapur ...tomo it could be anyone

You reach a stage in your company where you don't know if its the right time to move on and you read a blog of a product guy in a very successful company who left it...and says - stay hungry...stay foolish.

I have read arguments about people becoming loners and spending all their time on the internet...really dont know how is that possible...its just a media...extreme stories would exist without the existence of the media as well.

Networking sites is the next email I think...what could better than wishing all you know good morning early morning...in 2 seconds? Don't think its a waste of time at all. Its just networking :)

What could be easier if you want to pull pack and not be in touch with anyone...all you need to do is not logon.

Am waiting for the next phase...I think it will be the lightening fast internet I read about in TOI a few days back...the only thing that limits the internet possibilities and usage in India is the speed & cost & entrepreneurial talent... I wonder how will it be 2 yrs down the line or maybe 5...maybe the world would have changed again...what fun :)

Is innovation promoted in your company?

Ok folks...writing a serious topic on a rather light note.

Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple falling triggered a whole new set of laws of physics. What if he had to come to his lab at 9.00am and leave at 6.30pm. I wonder if he would be able to see the apple at night :)

I believe there ar 3 imp skills sets which every growing company must have.
1) People who come up with ideas, build businesses from zilch to .1. These guys cannot be contained by things like timing, rules, comparative politics within an organization. It absolutely hinders any ideation process.

2) People who can take .1 to 10. Guys who have imagination but need a framework or a skeleton. They will push businesses from mere ideas to a working machine.

3) The savvy scalers.... Guys who can take a business from 10 to 100. They will take the working machine and completely scale it to new heights .

The fact is that newtons contribution to physics, mathematics as well as optics is beyond imagination, however he did get eccentric at the end of his life...was it alchemy that he sought? which led him to do experiments on himself will never be clear. The fact is that a creative mind like his will not be bounded and will go ahead with what it wants to do not keeping in mind the requirements of day to day life.

Can we as normal people actually find out what is whose skill set (very tough if we actually start doing this) and accordingly allot them work..or are we as companies and maybe even as a society churning out clones? Are our policies, organisation structures, renumeration packages supporting this differentiation?

The fact is scalers will need discipline, but innovaters might need a completely different ambiance.

Chicken and egg - blame the person or the workplace... the fact is that both lose out on their talent potential.

Straight from the heart

Its been 7 years.

However it doesn't feel too long yet. I wonder now if its time to move on. At times you are stuck in situations which are nobody's fault, yet they occur. The feeling of being a stranger, or being distrusted, or being in the midst of folks you gotto live with but are totally unlike you and all because you are hanging on to a memory of past happiness and satisfaction seems foolish.

We had the same dreams, the same goals, we totally believed and trusted each other, yet cracks appeared. Some faults were mine and some were not.

At times to grow you need to leave the familiar behind and explore unchartered waters, push yourself to the edge to the cliff to fly. Its necessary to do...yet you leave a lot behind. A tough choice...and the only person who will be affected is me.

Money Talks

I feel fear. It was an alien concept to me. Yet I feel fear now.

I really ought to think of whats the worst that can go wrong..? My car could get stolen, my bosses could get non supportive and dis believing, my house could get robbed, all my savings could vanish as the stock market could reach 12000 points. (not far from reality). It could also be all of the above as I have observed thats the way life works. When you get, you usually get more than required and when u lose, it could be everything.

Another point of deep thought of all of the above is that it is all related to money!

How did I start thinking so much about money. This slowly creeped up from nowhere maybe a couple of years back when my company went in for an IPO. How peaceful was it when I didnt have any money...just getting a little bit of it gives it an opportunity to control me.

Is anything really the worst thing that could happen? If my savings vanish or the markets touch 10,000 points or I lose my job...will it not be a blessing in disguise. Warren Buffet became the richest man in the world - he says when markets get jittery, maintain your cool, have a long term vision, look for buying opportunities. Another colleague says pray you can be solvent before the markets revive...which never usually happens.

As i take a rain check of what I think - though intellectually I agree with Warren Buffet, I think it could be a blessing in disguise and more than that I think I am just gonna chuck it...so what if you lose some savings in the short term or so what if you chuck a non cooperative job...the universe always has something in store for you.