A day !

It was my first day in the new city.

Actually, I am in the capital of India.

I have been called here on the immediate basis for the training. So, it's like a small vacation for me.

They don't want me in the office for next two days, and I have a list to follow in these days.

I was like a camper since the morning. Been to three malls, one cafe, two restaurants, a movie hall, a garden, a spa, a convention hall.

My Google fit is showing 10km in the walking clock. It must be so happy to see new figures in the dial.

I met two couples, a masseuse, a security guard, four to five booking and food attendants.

Each of them had stories in their eyes. My masseuse Julia, is from North eastern part of the country. She and her sister lives in Delhi, both works in the same industry, i.e SPA & BEAUTY.

Guess what !! She and I, both have very minor difference difference in Salary. I was actually trying to find out how and what to learn to be a masseuse.

Both the couples were working in IT industry. Both were different parts of the country.

All the food attendants, security guard and the cook I have been provided in the Guest house; are from Nepal.

This is the seventh hour of my roaming day.

I asked one question with one or other sentence and words in all interactions I did today.

What you're gonna do with the money you get?

And you know what was the sense they wanted to buy??

All of them needed some sort of stability in life. No matter if they had a car, a wife, a bf/gf or a sound job, a decent salary (unlike me) or a religion (count me on the other side).

They were insecure of something.

Don't know, of what. But they were. They would use the earned money to fill in this insecurity. This hollowness they have in their heart. I am sure, all of the above, having some material things is not solving this situation. 

But they need security.

Satisfaction? I am not sure, but if they are in search, I guess satisfaction will be an impractical goal to get.

I am still in awe.

Do I have or will have the same sense of insecurity? Not having something? Or fear of losing somethings?

I am in the garden and watching a small kid, may be of a year, playing with grass. Trying to bite the spades. Kid isn't aware what is being lost in this dire time.

What he will have in life and what will he lose. He isn't giving a damn to his mother right now, even. And I am pretty sure he won't have given a damn to this insecurity his parents have for him.

I want to be this kid again.

Don't you?

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A smart world

(A tribute to the Syrian Boy)

I have a habit.

Whenever I get time, I go online and watch videos of change makers. 

Larry Page, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Obama, Narendra Modi, Mark, Rupert, Nicolas.

Why do they do what they do?

This is the only question I have in mind whenever I watch their speeches.

No, we are using the theorem in wrong manner.

Or may be the theorem is wrong.

We don't need a better world.

You have a car.

Now, you get two or three or Ferrari or higher models.

Is it good? Or better?

Larry once in a talk told, he sees the companies as the agents of change.

When I asked to people in my city, who have companies, almost all said, they want to make this world a better place to live.

I am not sure how clear they are or will be in future.

I don't a better world.

What would it like to be if you get the powers of Superman for one whole year?

You'll fly.

Scan people with your X-ray vision. Cook chicken with laser eyes. Run around the galaxy to see more stars. May be find some new habitats in space.

Then?

If you're a Superman, this will take no more than couples of months.

Okay, so now say, you can share your powers to make others Superman, then?

Well, you will make couples more.

They'll do the same.

They'll make others.

And by the end of the year. Half of the Earth is Superman Superwoman.

They spread out, and in another month or so make the rest of half Superman Superwoman.

Did you get a better world?

I am not sure, but if I would answer this, it is No.

No
No
No
No

I need a smarter world. 

Not full of Superman Superwoman.

What is a smarter world?

The one which....

Get your imaginations running now...!!

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What are you ?

Makers : Who work for the Future

Innovators and Creative ones : Who define the future

Dreamers : Who dreams/imagine the future

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I have recently started to follow Google ATAP channel on YouTube.

Amazing people, futuristic project and great possibilities.

One of the project is for Textile.

An IT company working for Textile.

You should watch.

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We started communication with Dr Nicolas Perony last month.


He headed Data Centre labs in Zurich.


When we wrote him a mail, it was just a guess. Never thought he would reply.


Why should he?


But he did.


We are gathering up people for the project,now.


Only if you can challenge your limits, you can grow.


We are practically trying to dissolve the limits. One city, one network, one device, one access and you can see the future.


I have worked with politicians, scholars, engineers, management people and home maker moms.


What is that one thing, if given a chance, I would change in all of them?


They don't dream !
They wish !


What they get at the end?


Nothing. Just a wish-list that never come true.


Only if you can dream beyond limits, you can challenge them.


And last,


There's something called Google syndrome. People think they can built their own Google. Not doing so, because they've other priorities.


I haven't seen any of them ever trying to learn who founded Google.


Neither have seen an Ad for new search engine recently.


Larry has said one thing in his interview with TED.


Google is working on ideas to solve billion people's problems, not on the billion dollar ideas.


Of course he has those many billions, so it's makes sense for him for to say.


No. Absolutely no.


Only if you can dream big enough, you can dream beyond limits.


What is dreaming big?


Not focusing a niche in the first place. Start with small, but get a thing which can hammer billion lives.


Let me correct...


Get a thing which can hammer billion lives DAILY.


And please don't Google how built a new search engine.


There're plenty of space for you to dream. And it's dreams. Why you want to re-invent anything even in dreams?


Dream a Ele-corn, not Unicorn...!!


What are you, by the way?

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The Anger Issue !

Have you ever been angry ?

Well, I have !

Frankly, I have beaten people, one of them bleed also. 

I have anger.

Suppressed, anger.

Why?

I am not sure if this has something to do with my guilt or courage or confidence or not, but I am sure for one thing.

Whenever, there was something wrong with me while facing the real or brutal truth, I got confused, and wasn't able to showcase the exact, needed emotion and converted that energy to anger.

Like, when I got failed for the first time in my entire career.

What did I do?

Well, not certainly talking to my parents or my friends as why I didn't as well as I wanted to do.

I didn't have that much of a courage that time. Maybe I still don't have.

So, I balanced the courage with anger and stored it.

Last night, I yelled at one of my programmer, fired him, took the work, paid amount back, made a big scene.

I realised this morning, this had to do with my failure issues, called him back, reposted him with some other work.

What I learned ?

Maybe we can have anger, but the best thing is that, when you know how to say SORRY to someone.

Gratitude !

Past : You lost or You won !

I have a theory.

If you think it is, go and get a coffee.

If you think it isn't, go and get a coffee.

Here's the thing:

I never remembered when I had Chinese in Last months.

I never remembered how many steps are there to my home from market.

I never remembered ever when I had run a mile and when a mile and a five feet.

I never remembered when I had three liters of water and when I had three and half.

I don't even remember day before yesterday what I had in Food.

Why?

Because, these things don't matter much to me when it comes to my competitive self.

On the first sight, one of my best friend told me I should shave for I look like an Indian Dacoit.

I picked up it, stored it and now just remebered it. 

Why?

Because, I don't want to loose my appearance to a dacoit.

I always store things which either make me win or loss.

What about you?

A Programmer !

A programmer goes out to get some dry cleaning. His wife told him, " While you're out pick up some Milk "

He never came Home !

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My wife said: "Please go to the store and buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six." 

I came back with 6 cartons of milk She said, "why in the hell did you buy six cartons of milk"


I said: Because  "They had eggs" !!

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Okay so here's the deal.

I am dealing with few people since last past month, from IT, and they all happened to be working on Coding and Programming side. 

What's common in all of them?

They all are a bunch of Jerks.

Seriously !!

I had the utmost respect for this community, and now I have utmost frustration.

Come on buddy !! You can't even spell, "Travel" ?? And you have a Masters degree in CS ??

The work is for a cashless travel scheme and every single line of the entire content has the word. And what I received for the testing, "Trval".

Every single line. Full of  " Trval " !

My god ! 

This bunch of not so brilliant people spent a whole month and when I got the work last weekend, my eyes were about to pop out after doing the spell check, option correction, sentence placement for whole weekend.

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For a question I had to put an option blank. I thought blank space in the option might create the confusion, as from 250 options, why only one has a blank space. So I wrote in Bold and Italic, " Please keep this space Blank ! "

Ohh My Fucking God !

I saw an Options saying : 

... " Please keep this space Blank ! " ,  instead of a blank space !!

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I really doubt whether this bunch of Jerks will do the project,one day I'll have to fuck their brains out them, if they've got any.

Guys please, if you know any better trick comment or mail. I just want to get the things done while I'm still alive.

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People Connect

Yes they do.

They just need some reasons for it. At a cafe, bar, restaurant, community programs, fairs, work, meetings, movies. Everywhere.

I have been following the works of Dr Yuval Harari. He has a very intriguing talk on TED.

His works focus on history and rise of the Sapiens. His books are amazing to read. In videos and book he explains why we were able to be the most suitable and united species from the evolution. Definitely, his theories focus on the soft sides of it and not the rationally driven biology or chemistry or genetics one.

The core of the momentum is, we connect, we imagine, we care and we dream. The essence is We.

I found this thing working. I connected with few people today. Two at one cafe. One at the convention centre. One at the restaurant and one at my favourite tea stall.

What was common with all of them?

Well, they all were part of a dream. A dream which I am trying to sell them. A dream for which they see the togetherness and unity. A dream to which they can share their skills and motives. And this is great.

If things go smooth, I'll be having a team made out of them. Or maybe with all of them. Who knows. But I realized one thing more than just connecting. What if we can be together and share the feelings, the pains, problems, hurdles, mistakes, lacuna. What if for the sake of the us all, we can work together just not to prove who or what is the best, but to see how many alternatives can be there. What if for that once, we can work not to find answers to the common questions, but the ways to solve them. May be, then, poverty can have ten solutions. May be one atomic reactor design, or high pressure turbine can have five models to work with,

Isn't is there that the source is focused or localised with the mighty few? Those who can learn, can solve. What if the crowd can give us the list of the best workable and suitable features? Who knows?

What do I know?

We connect. And I felt that today.

Thanks India. Thanks Pune. Thanks Earth.

Love you all !

Bad to Good

A very Bad day for Good.

Had a rough start. Laptop crashed and I was in pain, It was as intense as having a break-up. I actually thought for a moment all my motives to live the life on have gone forever. I lost data, business files, cartoon, my collection of stand-up shows, photos, videos, blog notes everything. And I can not just believe on me for not having back-up.

Fuck !

I had to call Tech support. Guess what ! They can not help if you have a piece out of warranty. Can you believe?

I was looking for my all the contacts to search whom I can go to for getting my baby life. Agony, Pain, Stress, Anger, Foolishness and Feeling of getting the soul crushed into tiny pieces. My god. I was in hell searching for some Ice.

Like all the stories, one of the friends emerged in the afternoon like savior and formatted, replaced the OS and checked the Hard drive, Motherboard and what not. I got the machine back late in the afternoon, but there I realized, I have feelings for machines also :(

I just can't believe not taking the backups. How idiot I can be at times. And how many more times.

Well, it was a frustrating day. Was doing nothing in the evening being the aftershocks of the grief. Had to go for daily jog though.

Sitting numbly at the cafe for couples of hours, when I went to the counter for the memo, an old was clearing out; asked me what I think of the new energy policy of this government. In a shock for a second, I responded in an awe. (Why the hell I should know what they are onto?) For starter I chose word Optimistic.

And it worked.

He was like, getting the exact word he was looking to tag the policy dilemma, since past century. He offered another cup of coffee. We chatted on few topics, I was dragging the discussion for the sake of conversation. But what you know?

I was getting relaxed actually. This conversation was making my agony a little less sharp by every minute I spend in the discussion. Don't know how, but I think this is the key.

Interactions with others make us believe. Make us believe on the life, streams of Good and Bad events, that nothing will be permanent, Machines can be repaired, Too much coffee can make you run for hours, dinner senses die with coffee and much more.

I learned one more thing about me. I need people to connect, share, talk, express, relax, live and experience the balance.

People make me what I am and can inspire what more I can be ever, I guess. But this evening was Bad to Good transformative phenomenon which I witnessed accurately with all my senses and perhaps gratitude, on.

Thanks People.

Love you all.

Take care.