A Colored Theory

We have as many theories as there are colors in the universe. Because, people repaint old theories with new colors and propagate them as new, like painting a box with a new color and showing it as new. And worst of all, they take credit for doing so.

Some notes from CTO

1. The next huge markets will be India and China, and the Product Management in US has no clue about the local dynamics in these markets. They tend to apply what work in US, but fail terribly. The reason is that, for e.g., China is going through technology skip. So, you can't sell handsets to them, where everybody has mobile nowadays. Indians can better understand Indian market. So, you guys (us) have a benefit of being here, over a long run, if you exploit the opportunity.

2. He said a very interesting process of generating innovative ideas. Once in a while, he sends an email to 8 random people, who don't know each other ideally, and ask them to gather at a place, and discuss about what they are working, and what improvements they would like to see. This will help generate cross-pollinated ideas. After such meetings, he starts getting very innovative ideas, which he didn't get when he conducted a meeting of top distinguished engineers in the company. This is very innovative way of driving innovation.

3. The only way to sustain growth in India is to work-hard...China is growing rapidly.

My CTO is a Physicist!

In our all-hands meeting today, my CTO said, "you find most of the top guys (who made breakthroughs) in Computer Science are from Physics background". And he proudly said that he was a Physicist. Later, I thought why this is so. If you observe, Physics was great in demand before Computer Science came into existence. Obviously, most of the smart guys were attracted to this field. Smart guys not only influence their field, but also start influencing the buddy fields, which of course, Computer Science was one of them. Computer Science is nearly two decades old, and not surprisingly though, you find Physics graduates playing top roles in this field. May be two decades later, a Biology professor tells in his class, "You know what, lot of breakthroughs in our field were done by Computer Scientists!". And we are observing how Computer Science is solving some of the tough Biology problems today. It is not what the field is that is important, it's where the smart guys are in.

Why do we visit Church?

Ah...what a boring topic! Talk something else Subbu...Sorry; this is my blog; I can rant whatever I want. So, why do we visit Church? Ok...tell me, where do you hide when your big brother is chasing you to beat. Obviously, behind your mom. Of course, there are other places in your home to hide, but your mom can do one additional thing: beat your brother back. So, what we observed here? If you are overpowered by your brother, you will go to your mom who can overpower him. Correct? Similarly, if your are overpowered by difficulties in the life, your will go to a place where those can (believe to) be tackled, or at least you get a sense of relief from difficulties. So, you visit a church, where you surrender yourself and ask God to resolve them. In my view, church is the only place where you feel that there is something more powerful than you, and you feel secured there. [Ofcourse, bomb is also more powerful than you, but you don't feel secured there :)]. No no...I am atheist. I don't go to church. Ok. Simple. Believe in you, and feel confident that you can help yourself. Or visit a psychiatrist, he will make you believe in you :)