Category: Blog

Criticism is cheap

I am guilty of this as much as any other person. Criticism is both cheap and most of the time free.

Commentator

If one knows anything about a “subject” or not – that should not stop them from criticising and proving their points if they have any. One does not need to be a subject matter expert to have the license to criticise. Yes, it is called sharing  opinions. Just check on Techmeme. Ah, well almost all  sharing their “opinions” have never ran a business let alone a corporation.

Ah, did I just criticise myself?

image credit: Play among friends Paf.

Loyalty and Layoffs

Your career is yours and yours alone, whether you want it to be or not. The sooner you own it, and take responsibility for all of the consequences of said ownership, the sooner you will find yourself creating your own safety from the corporate predators who pillage and destroy in service to the soulless legal fiction they call your master. Not their master, by the way. Yours.

via Loyalty and Layoffs | Heart, Mind and Code.

This is a great read,  long  – yes but spare yourself 15 minutes. It might work as a wake up call.

Being used

Social Media Information Overload
I wrote the following in 2011:

Computers and gadgets are for you to use. You can do as little or as much as you want with them. You can be productive or spend all the time searching through other people’s lives.

Information Overload

Still stand by this. Information overload is stressing people now and keeping up has become an issue if not managed well. So is the information overload using you and your time or are you managing to wisely use the information to your benefit? I hope the balance is leaning towards  you.

Freedom

India celebrates it’s 66th Independence Day. More than a billion people are rejoicing, celebrating the event, having a day off and wishing happy INDEPENDENCE DAY.

Attain and experience the freedom in your mind. This is a freedom for which every individual needs to fight for self. And Yes, Happy Independence Day.

The flag of India

3-D printed food

But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3D printing, envisions a much more mundane—and ultimately more important—use for the technology. He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3D printer, and the earth’s 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. Contractor’s vision would mean the end of food waste, because the powder his system will use is shelf-stable for up to 30 years, so that each cartridge, whether it contains sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or some other basic building block, would be fully exhausted before being returned to the store.

via The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food – Quartz.

Natural will be natural. But having the ability to cook anything perfectly the way I want, in the cleanest possible way excites me and with just the calories I want to inject into myself is even better. Technology and possibilities excite me!

Complain

People complain and sue businesses about getting a spam mail but they don’t voice their opinions to politicians bringing the nation down neither do they complain about national or international scams. Courage works in different ways!

Savings as an expense

An average person struggles with saving money but does not struggle too much to spend on expenses both for personal needs and wants.

Piggy savings bank
So how about seeing savings as a “definitely required” expense? This way people may be able to save more. Saving money should not seem like a painful exercise.

image credits: Thanks to Alan

Facebook decline

the world’s largest social network has lost 6m US visitors, a 4% fall, according to analysis firm SocialBakers. In the UK, 1.4m fewer users checked in last month, a fall of 4.5%. The declines are sustained. In the last six months, Facebook has lost nearly 9m monthly visitors in the US and 2m in the UK.

via Facebook loses millions of users as biggest markets peak | Technology | The Guardian.

I have to agree not because I have access to more statistics but I can observe statistics in my own timeline. From few hundred people that I follow from across the world, the individual usage has dropped. These people are not celebrities but average Facebook users.

My timeline for the most part is filled with updates on pages and other celebrity stars (mostly in the tech world). My friends are not logging onto Facebook as much or as often. The common word I hear from the lot is “we are bored!” and “there is nothing new to check..”. Same as the study, I am finding more sharing activities from my Indian friends compared to those from US, UK and Australia.

I am finding that less updates from friends also means less interactions and hence less time spend on Facebook – and this is not a bad thing at all.