Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

Thanks Pranav for making it open source! Hats off to you bro!! I am sure your innovation will change the way we will interact with the world in near future. It will truly make us more human!

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Essence of Life : Pursuit of Happiness!

Doubt it? Watch this excellent presentation by Tony Hsieh of Zappos at Startup School 2009. He talks about Zappos first and ends up asking “What is your Goal in Life?”. If you are confused this presentation might help. Enjoy!

Video:

Watch live video from Startup School on Justin.tvSlides:

Future of Work!

I stumbled upon this great presentation about Future Of Work by oDesk! Enjoy!

How to practice Innovation and Entrepreneurship?

Recently there are many funny ads that are being aired on TV by IBM about Innovation, where in every one is trying to DO or say practice innovation, WITHOUT knowing how to do it so they spend most of their time by irrelevant activities to kill time, and then IBM guys come up and say We are doing it!, sounds great. I love this one the most .

I believe meaning of these two words; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; has always been; and will always be, evergreen in Human evolution. Main reason for that is these two words imply Change and Growth; which is what Life is all about. So it is not surprising that as we march ahead towards knowledge society these words will become more important; and everyone wants to DO innovation; but hardly anyone knows how to do it. One man has the answer.

Recently while surfing through huge collection of books in Gadgil Economics Library, Pune I bumped into a classic book by Father of Management, Peter F. Drucker titled, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. After reading it my respect for Peter Drucker has grown considerably. He proposes a model by which we can convert these two highly abstract words into a practice; as in Medical practice or a law practice. The same way he converted old so called getting things done concept into a practice of Management, through his numerous books. It took almost 10-20 years for people to understand what he was talking about and I think it will take a lot more to understand what he means by Innovation as a practice and then DOING it.

Challenges of 21st century or a century where we will move to knowledge society, are many and it’s must that we understand the nature of new Knowledge society and also the true meaning of these two words. I believe Peter Druker’s books will surely guide all of us through that transition.

Zen and art of Motorcycle biking

WOW what a book!. I am almost about to finish it and I found it most out of the box book on philosophy.  Mostly I have read books which argues about certain ideas and it’s comparison with other. This books unities different conflicting ideas, and comes up with a new idea about- what is meant by Quality ? and combines it to our daily activities.

Most of us are afraid of words like philosophy, but this books explains you how it be the most useful thing and why it is necessary.

Although, what I found was author assumes reader is familiar with certain ideas of philosophies, like zen Buddhism and other. But even if one skips those parts and read along I am sure one will have a pleasant reading experience and might alter the way one works.

Organizing Knowledge

To be effective, knowledge must be organized – they say

I have been reading ferociously for new ideas for last couple of years, apart from my daily studies. It was mostly related to philosophy, entrepreneurship, business, and some other stuff. And I have this huge pile of ideas which I have collected over the years. I have been documenting these in my diary but now I want to document them more precisely here. Today I have decided that I gona do start it.

BarCampPune4

It’s here and it’s gona be BIG, today I learned from one of ThoughtWorks friend that Martin Fowler is attending this event. It’s really a great honor to have him here, and I am sure it will be a great treat to all the geeks.

Thanks a ton for BarCamp pune team for this great achievement!.

If you havent registered yet pl do so here.

Let us make this event a grand success!!

i Shouldn’t Be Alive!

This is the name of the great TV show that is aired on Discovery channel. It shows true stories of people, those who have survived a major mishap happened during their sea travels, treks, or others such incidents.

What makes show exciting is all are true stories, and the narration n presentation of discovery makes it even more exciting!!

One thing I have noticed is that those who survived have shown a great will power to live for some thing which was more important to them. That is obvious, you will say, but in order to survive they have done things for which they were NOT trained , they knew they can not do this, and they themselves were surprised how they did it!

What I learned from this is that we have great potential abilities to do things which, we might think we CAN’T DO, but unless we find ourselves in a situation where it’s a matter of life or death for us we dont tap into those abilities. We tend to be in our comfort zone of competence.

So the conclusion is, we will not know our limitations unless we DO great things, with a do or die attitude. But then a question comes to mind if everything reasonable is possible then, what we should do, that truly matters and makes a difference?

I think only a motivation for making a difference, excitement to do great deeds, or fighting for right cause, that is what inspires those great heroes who leave their marks on time.

I am gona test this hypothesis ….

Here is a link to it’s episode guide:

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/alive/episode/episode.html

Have a thrilling experience…

Addition:

Recently I saw a movie ‘Seabiscuit’ in that there is a poem by

Emily Dickenson

it say:

“We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise;

And then, if we are true to plan,

Our statures touch the skies.

The heroism we recite

Would be a daily thing,

Did not ourselves the cubits warp

For fear to be a king.”

So it does sounds like we can do great many things when we find ourselves in particular situation, and then we rise to that situation to achieve great things.