Make the world more Curved

Human body is one of the best designs in the Universe, perfected over millions of years and there are lot of things that we can learn from our body on design.. One thing which hurts me on design is those sharp edges, check your body, how many sharp edges do you have, nothing! everything curved, smoothened, only exception is our teeth. Look at the earth, Sun, Moon, Planets, Space everything curved, smoothened..

Look at the car tail lamps, most of them are of Polygon shape, having sharp edges.. Think of a Circle, Ellipse, Parabolic shaped tail lamps, won't that look nice.. A Ellipse shaped mirror will look great than a rectangular shaped one, think of curved dining table, TV, Laptops, Land-line Phones, Charger, Note books, bags, all those around you, won't that look nice when it's curved rather than a typical rectangular shape.. Off-course there are limitations, the surface area is lesser than that of a rectangle of similar size but in places where bigger surface area is not a concern or becomes an advantage, won't that look great.. So lets make the world more curved than what it is now..

Apple - Think Different

If there is one advertisement which we can watch 1000 times, its this!, Apple - Think Different Campaign

Mettur Dam

Love to hear the news that the Mettur dam which is the lifeline for thousands of people is fast reaching its full capacity, just curious to find the no. of days it will take to reach the full capacity and not more than 4 days at this level of inflow..

Mettur Dam, Tamilnadu, India	On 8th August          2014 at 10 PM
Current water level (Million Cubic Feet)	65800
Full Capacity Water level (Million Cubic Feet)	93400
Water Shortfall to reach full Capacity (Million Cubic Feet)	27600
Water In Flow (Cubic Feet per sec)	80000
Water In Flow (Cubic Feet per day)	6912000000
Water In Flow (Million Cubic Feet per day)	6912
Time Required to reach full capacity (in Days, assuming no outflow)	3.99

Where are you?

Zoom out and see the bigger picture! Where are you on this Milky Way Galaxy?

Love what you do or Do what you Love

Recently saw a proverb which says "The only way to do great work is to love what you do". i deny! And the only way to do great work is to do what you love..

Check all those who left their legacy or changed the world, they did what they loved..

On Existence of God

It becomes irrelevant how much you are convinced on the non existence of God. The Human mind is so fragile that it needs the support of God at times and the invention of God has been good for the society than otherwise.. So God is there or not, it's going to exist forever and let it be!..

Ramanujan - The Genius

Ramanujan movie Director Rajasekaran on his film

“In India, we don’t celebrate geniuses – we celebrate only mediocrity,” said Rajasekaran. “We don’t know how to nurture a genius. Ramanujan was not nurtured as a genius should be – his father was not impressed with his maths skills as a child and when he joined college he was told by the principal, ‘We don’t need a genius in one subject; we prefer an average student across all subjects.’ Even today, in India it is the same story - society favours average students and geniuses are hardly encouraged and treated as special and receive the nurturing they deserve as compared to Western society.”

“Even if someone is brilliant, in our society we think it’s more important for the person to fulfil all other aspects – he or she needs to be a good spouse, good child, good human being, good parent, etc. We don’t allow a child’s intrinsic talent to develop and allow the child to pursue his or her passion. The parents decide what the child will grow up to be and in this process, the child’s brilliance dies out. In Ramanujan’s case, in spite of all that went against him, he still went on to prove himself a genius.”

Ramanujan may not be a commercial masala-filled Tamil flick but the director’s message is clear: a genius should not be treated as ‘abnormal’, but as someone who is special.

The complete Article Link:
http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/rajasekarans-new-film-remembers-ramanujan-brilliance-1618267.html

Geniuses

Recently read a blog in Linkedin which said Geniuses are one's who act, who don't over think and are not perfectionists.. Actually its exactly the opposite and it's the problem of Geniuses, they don't act fast, they always over think and they always aim for perfection. Probably the geniuses who limit these natural inhibitions would be known to the world!

How perfectly Symmetrical are your Products?

How Symmetrical are your Products?

Human Body is one of the most Symmetrical (left- right bilateral Symmetry to the tune of 97%) product externally and a Google search on that brought out surprising results on why we are symmetrical outside and not symmetrical inside.. Check out this..

https://blogs.stsci.edu/livio/2012/08/28/why-are-we-symmetrical/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mario-livio/why-are-we-symmetrical_b_1836534.html

Humans or Animals love to mate perfect symmetrical partners and would love to use symmetrical products and that's the reason most of our existing products are also symmetrical. But the question is the perfectionism in the symmetricity, Not a big deal but are we taking a note of it, is your product 100% symmetric to the extent of the smallest Nut & Bolt.. Not really, I have seen hundreds of cars which could easily be symmetrical but are not. Is your logo symmetrical? TATA, Renault, Honda, Mercedes are some of the symmetrical logo's but most of them are not, should we have one? off course Humans/Animals would love to!..

I personally would love to have a car with perfect symmetrical exteriors, Logo, Name, Number plate etc..What about your House, your gadgets, your workstation?

 

Going Crazy on TED Talks

Going crazy on TED Talks!, had some time today being a holiday and had my eureka moment when i watched this video..

Are we in contol of our own decisions - When the decision making becomes complex, we tend to make somebody else take our decisions or we don't take decisions & leave it to chance, oh my god!, that's what we are doing all these days.. So what do we do, take decisions all the time, write down the decisions not taken so far and decide, not so easy isn't it. But lets think about it!..

The power of Introverts - Pretty popular one, but when you listen for the second time you understand the depth of it..It goes like this..

Extroverts: Take things out of your suitcase “every chance you get and grace us with your energy and your joy.”

Introverts: “You probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what’s inside your own suitcase. And that’s okay. But occasionally . . . I hope you will open up your suitcases for other people to see, because the world needs you and it needs the things you carry.”

Also check out the TED Video "why you will fail to have a great career"
You will fail to have a great career unless...
We find lot more reasons like family, money, kids, age to justify why we fail to have a great career and we become the reason for the failure and not exactly those reasons.. So unless, unless...

Supplementary for TED Talks!

Am becoming a Brand Ambassador for TED Talks, wanna put a supplementary guide for the talks!

Watch these videos..
Try something new for the next 30 days - Try one which you want to do and Try one more which your family wants you to do!
5 ways to listen better - Can you listen to silence and identify the patterns of Sound, looks like the old story of a prince who was sent to forest till he learns to listen to the deep sounds of the nature..
What do you learn from Far away galaxy clusters - The closer you look, the lesser you see, isn't it!. So zoom out and look far, far away..
Great Cars are Great Art - Love is not selfish! Design is not Engineering but Art..

Ideas Worth Spreading - TED.COM

If you are looking for Quality content on Technology, Entertainment & Design and don't have much time for reading, watch TED.COM, spend 18 minutes a day which is the maximum time of a video..

It can change your life.. Some of the best content out of the few that i watched so far are

Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
My stroke of Insight
Where Google going next
Discovery that could rewrite physics
Questioning the universe
How to live before you die
and much more...

sure ideas worth spreading and i have done my part!

Whom do you vote for?

Whom do you vote for in the coming Lok Shaba Elections in India?

1. If you couldn't decide filter the options available..
2. Should we vote for Regional/Smaller parties for the Lok shoba elections even though they created Instability & Scams in the past. (Read Bimal Jalan Book on Emerging India). If Regional/Smaller parties wants to do something good for the state, let them do it by winning Assembly Elections.
3. If still not able to decide, think whom do you vote against rather than whom do you vote for. That will leave you with very few options
4. But never ever think of voting for a candidate just because he/she is winnable, your vote matters a lot even if your candidate loses.

Change Yourself

Never let your negative thoughts take away ur action
Start the day with something easy which then can give you momentum
But keep in mind First things first
Never postpone things even if it means perfection

Ideas and Execution

Last week, was in my kid Annual day function, In one of the dance event, very good choreography planned by the teachers, but the kids failed to imitate any of that, teachers were not happy and the audience as well..

This happens many times in Organisations, should know what they are capable of rather than what they want to do..

Changing the world

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist