July 27, 2016

Nothing is Unthinkable: Z.E.R.O.

What do you truly believe? Go do it. What others call heresies can be your true legacies.



What is totally unacceptable to the conventional wisdom, can be a truly revolutionary thing. As long as it serves people and does not harm them, just go do it.




Hate to Love: Z.E.R.O

Sometimes we don't know what we want. At such times, knowing what we don't want, can help us discover our true desires.



So, as the extract suggests, take down what you hate. It may reveal your true love. Hopefully.




Customers Are Always Right : About Face

The author is quoting the classic "Positioning" by Ries and Trout. The quotation contains timeless insights for marketers.





People who want to educate other people, must be aware of these mine traps!

People always prefer to live in their own small bubbles, their comfort zones. Let them stay there, it's their rights.






One at a time? All at once? Vary Your Approach --2

Do A, then B, then C and then mix them up.

Or let A, B and C happen all at once.

Both! Variation is the answer sometimes.

We have talked about a similar example before on this blog.




July 26, 2016

Patent Joke from New Scientist

At first the missile site sent only a few signals. The fighter jets caught onto these signals and fire-bombed those sites.

Later the missile site sent 10, 000 signals and while the fighters got confused, the missile site shot down the planes.

Arm race!  It was wonderfully described in "The Age of the Unthinkable" by Joshua Cooper Ramo.

The same seems going between the trolls and the defenders. It is funny, the machine, the code seems this time to be on the true innovators' side.

Encouraging as well as entertaining.





Book Covers

Mere photos of covers of books?

Don't they inspire you in any way?

Strategy from Boston Consulting Group, it's here.
Marketing and persuasion, they are here.

AI, machine learning, , it's here.
Just plain solid code, it's here.

How programming is used in an important domain i.e. finance, it's here.

Even if you don't understand any of this, don't you get an idea where things are going is this world?

















Courage : early months of 2016 -- part 2

Visualization helps. Imagination helps.

If you can't train in one particular way, imagine many other ways to train.



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