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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Lesson #1 : Don't plan for the Perfection !

...and how much we lost ?

...almost the entire amount !

Any way to settle ? Should we file a suit ?

Hmm...it will be a civil suit and may take fifteen to seventeen years of trial, and there are much of the chances that he'll walk out safe.

..but how the hell this happened ? Didn't we plan for it ?

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Plan : a detailed proposal of doing or achieving something, says the dictionary.

I'm about to start the next set of business and still the previous blunders haunt me. Haunt the shit out of me. 

What if, the plan doesn't work out? What if the product isn't ready by the time? What if product is a shit? What if the market won't click? What if the network will break? What if there will be legal issues? What if the investors back out? What if the same things will repeat like last time?

What if !

Shit...it freaks me out. Sometimes I can't go to sleep thinking it.

But I'm getting better. 

Better and better at failing. 

Yes. Failing !

This is probably the fourth business in my twenties. And I don't think this will float like a duck.

Then why am I doing this?

Well, I'm in love with the concept and think it will solve a million people's daily problem.

Then why I think it will fail?

Because, I know it will. I always plan for the perfection. And it never goes as planned. So for me, every trial is a failure.

But not in the words of dictionary. My meaning for failure is; another way to know where the success isn't now !

Nothing is permanent. 

A green cafe, the whole and organic food, self brewed beer, solar and biogas powered outlet, battery driven delivery system, making every customer a stakeholder, idea; failed miserably. 

One knucklehead plotted a fraud deal for the rented space, so we lost a huge amount, investors got pissed, partners ran, workers fought for commitment, courts and police didn't help.

Now, there are people calling twice in a month to work for the same idea. How ? Did I do a magic?

Nope. Just time changed. Idea has its potential now when there is a huge capital proposed for the green and clean technology driven businesses.

Even if I'll take the call and start working for it again, I know it will fail. Why? Again, I planned it for the perfection.

A plan for the perfection has always failed on me.

But it has always showed me another way to race. It is not the destination, they say that matters, it is the journey. 

So, I learn from mistakes, and do some more to learn some more. The day I stop doing it, the day I'll be out of last breathe.

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