Sudh's Expressive Writings

Amazing Concept that you would love to adopt in your life

2016-04-23T23:22:00.002-07:00

Good to see you all after about 542 days. Well..,this data may sound funny but that is the unfortunate result of my never-ending procrastination process of, "I will blog it tomorrow!!" promise to myself.

Over this period of 542 days or about 1.5 years since I wrote my last post on this blog: , there were several things that have been changed me, personally, physically, geographically (with my relocation) and with so many other things to "ally" with...But this promise of "I will blog this tomorrow!" was ever green in mind and amused to see my unconscious perserverance of keeping it ever-green, so far.

The amazing concept that I have jsut read, dawned on me and dragged me to blog this post, at this weird hours of Central Time, 12:37 as the clock states, as I typing. I could NOT resist b-logging this concept and hence this post, I must state.

courtesy: welfareTech.dk

The name of the concept is "Maturation". This, as you would have googled by now, you might have come across in several walks of life, well, ..depending on the lane you are treading ahead:

For the biology subject initated nerds might relate to the functional development of the finally settled ova or sperm cells

For the connoiseur of wineries and the fantastic wines you may have across, you may have definitely heard this concept, "Maturation" which is nothing but the fermentation process took the grapes and other ingradients cemented several feets beneath ground has finally resulted in a fine form of liquid that is ready for drinking.

Or if you are a tea-wine-totaler like me, you would have heard this term for the ripening process of the fruit especially lot you may hear with mango season that is coming up now.

Now, if you are wondering how this concept is related to the avoidance of procrastination I am talking err., typing about, I must start with the process of developing ideas.

Any projects, however pet that you may come across, the idea of the same might have sparked with a one liner and been developed over the time. The key part of the development is "over the time", which is what I would relate with the above examples, I have stated for Maturation.

The concept was first observed from this scholarly paper titled "Providing clarity and a common language to the" fuzzy front end", by Koen, Peter, et al in Research Technology Management (2001), the authors explained about the new product developement ideas through "Idea Genesis" - how to give birth to an idea (Warning: I may post the gist of this paper soon ;))

The theme of the concept is so simple as to comparing how a cow gets its food processed, to explain in a simple way so that even a dummy like me could get this across.

I have always wondered the way the cow takes the food and process it as it is different from any other domestic animals you could observe. Cows do NOT directly push the food inside but munches the grass or simply mows and stores it so that it could settle at a places where it could grind and push inside.

For the details process mapping on this, you may want to read this interesting article on How cows eat grass, as this is NOT a main intention behind this post!!

Coming back to the main motif behind this post, the Maturation concept works in a similar way where the solution to any issues that we would like us to figure out, irrespective of the nature, whether it is official, personal, philosophical, etc., can be initiated to the brain in the form of Posting a Question and move for another activites to provide the needed hiatus.

Though we have moved our focus to other priorities, it has been found out that our brain has been programmed to work subconsciously on the question in the background, even as we are focussing on the other priorities. Sounds amazing or unbelievable? Well it was to me and still is, even though the Maturation idea that I am posting now is result of it.

While this conept I have across recently with the book that I am reading by Mark Forrester, namely Secrets of Productive People, 2 days back, this post has been result of one such question:

"How do I employ this Maturation concept?"
"How do I know it works?"

Well, after two days, definitely this concept atleast helped me to move my procrastination cheese which were stinking for last 542 days and ended up this blog post.

So, I must state, "It works!!".

The outstanding question is : "Are you ready to try this amazing concept of Maturation"?? Please feel free to share your observations or results.

Power of Shadow Economy In India...

2014-10-30T01:14:00.001-07:00

UThe poll rhetoric of bringing back all the black money into India within a period of 100 days turned into a long forgotten promise. Only after the Supreme Court rapped Centre for being lethargic, did the NDA government disclose a few names couple of days back. However, after receiving flak for creating a protective umbrella for the rest, the NDA government handed over the entire list containing 600 odd names to the Supreme Court today morning.

So, will this bring an end to the black money trail and rescue India of the cancer that it has been breeding?

To be quite honest, I reckon this entire exercise of naming and blaming is merely done for public appeasement. The very thought of tracing black money and punishing the guilty is like searching for Rapunzels in real world.

The logic is straightforward. This saga of bringing back the black money is on since ages. So, it is wishful to believe that account holders have not moved their money by now and are waiting for the government to act. As a matter of fact, an article in FirstPost succinctly highlights how the Indian National money with Swiss banks has vanished over periods. In 2006, Indian money in Swiss accounts stood at Rs 414 bn. It came down to Rs 140 bn in 2013. In fact, Swiss banks themselves have been asking their suspect account holders to move their money for safety purposes.

It is like a local police station giving the robbers an advanced notice to raid them a week in advance. How stupid it can get to?

As such, this entire exercise of creating a list to trace the money is futile. If either the NDA or the UPA government was indeed serious of punishing the black money culprits, they would have not indulged in this public tamasha. Instead, they would have directly taken action back doors and left no time for culprits to act or react.

Did Obama made the matter public as to when he was going to execute Osama? Matters of national and security affairs are never made public. They are executed back doors. And the reason execution will never happen in India is because no political party is crystal clean. Execution may embarrass all parties. Hence, the best strategy is to indulge in blame game and fool the public. And the best way to do it is name small bullion traders and Timblo's of the world (read unknown faces).

Do you think the list shall contain names of top politicians and corporates? Certainly not! Naming is just done to calm our nerves. There is no benefit to aam aadmi here as there is limited possibility of that money getting traced and used for national development. Perhaps, the only beneficiaries could be TV anchors and controversy-hungry journalists since money matters attract maximum eyeballs in Indian drawing rooms.

The point I am trying to make is that one should not live in false expectations of more transparency and clean economy post this move. It may take uncanny political will to prove us wrong.

On a lighter note, I am still wondering about the sanity and intelligence of those 627+ account holders. If I were them, I would have shut down the shops and escaped long back ;-)

See you until next time..

Power of Shadow Economy In India...

2014-10-30T01:12:00.001-07:00

So, will this bring an end to the black money trail and rescue India of the cancer that it has been breeding?

It is like a local police station giving the robbers an advanced notice to raid them a week in advance. How stupid it can get to?

The point I am trying to make is that one should not live in false expectations of more transparency and clean economy post this move. It may take uncanny political will to prove us wrong.

On a lighter note, I am still wondering about the sanity and intelligence of those 627+ account holders. If I were them, I would have shut down the shops and escaped long back ;-)

See you until next time..

Want to lead a life full of joy, kill this thief!!

2014-10-17T16:17:00.001-07:00

This striked me a few minutes back while I am determined to "leverage" the waiting time at the airport waiting for the announcement and once again looking at the facebook of the past through my wall did the strike on my head.

We all do it: we look at what others are doing and wish we were doing that too. Or worse, we scoff at what they’re doing and "judge" them, and see ourselves as better.

Now, The first one would definitely make us feeling inferier when we see people posting about having great time with the family or at the beach or having fun in general while we happen to look at their "incredible" life snapshots through boringly staring at the smart-dumb phone.

Or the second part of "judging", may certainly make us feel superior but does that make us happy, is the question that would take more than a moment to answer, honestly. We don’t know what it feels like to be this person, but maybe we can imagine that they’re suffering, and we can wish for their suffering to end.

So neither part of these behavioural patterns make us happy, right?

Looking deeply into these behavioural patterns, are we fair in our comparisons? We often end up comparing some of the beginning of ours to middle of others, I meant the phases of life.

Take the first case of comparison others seemingly "amazing" life, do you know that not all of them would post their life's happening when they are at stress, when they are at their high anxiety levels or having heated arguments OR in their insecurities.

Comparing yourself to others is insanity, because only you can be you.

Do you know one of the hardest battle you can never win, is comparing others with you.

The only person we should try to be better than at, would the be the person that we were yesterday OR better than the one that we used to be :)

As a wise man right(ful)ly said, the prime thief of one's joy would be the topic of the day, "Compare"...

Let us take that one step to kill this thief!!

Later..later,
Sudh

Fittest survival - root of the innovation

2014-05-08T12:49:00.001-07:00

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish. If
the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh.

To solve this problem, fish companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish. And they did not like the taste of frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So, fishing companies installed fish tanks.
They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.
After a little thrashing around, they were tired, dull, and lost their fresh-fish taste. The fishing industry faced an impending crisis! But today, they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan. How did they manage? To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put
the fish in the tanks but with a small shark.
The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move. The challenge they face keeps them alive and fresh!

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired and dull? Basically in our lives, sharks are new challenges to keep us active. If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy. Your challenges keep you energized. Don’t create success and revel in it in a state of inertia.

You have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference. Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go...

Have a great day.
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Lead at your best

2014-04-29T22:29:00.001-07:00

Lead at your best

Five simple exercises can help you recognize, and start to shift, the mind-sets that limit your potential as a leader.

El Nino - disaster waiting to happen Or stock market mutiny?

2014-03-23T20:51:00.001-07:00

Good morning friends!

It has been quite some time since we met through my blog posts. And how I thought I have picked up the habit of regular blogging as part of my new year resolution syndrome.

Anyways, today morning I had this compelling mind voice about this news which I thought I can share my views with.

Recently there was a strong pitch in about the upcoming dangerous hear wave namely El Nino.. As some of you would have already guessed with the El word, this appears to have originated from the Spanish with the meaning of small boy.

So how this small boy condition is formed?

EL NINO gets formed when the surface temperature grows higher than the normal in the western Pacific and cooler than the normal on its eastern pacific.

When this condition happens, the warm water flow gets created and moves towards the Easter Pacific regions, blocking the cold water flow to balance it out. However in the due course, it triggers the temperature abnormality in the eastern specific regions.

This warm water situation triggers global weather changes.

When this may occur?

Scientists predicted this to happen in August time frame which mean impacting the south west monsoon in India.

What's the impact then...

With more than 50% of work force of India depending on the farm products, this El Nino theory already caused more fears and damages to the Indian commodity markets, as this theory focused on eastern Pacific regions.

Now back to the title of this post.. The question is this "El Nino - disaster waiting to happen Or stock market mutiny?"

Mutiny??! Why?

We will see the details tomorrow with more data and details..

Have a great day!

Speed reading - is it worth investing time with?

2014-01-01T10:42:00.001-08:00

Speed Reading is not a complete scam, if that's what you're thinking. But the benefits have been exaggerated. Speed reading is what you might call the Ronald Reagan approach to reading--you get the text's general drift while remaining largely innocent of the details, sometimes embarrassingly so.

Several trained speed readers were once asked to read a doctored text in which the even-numbered lines came from one source and the odd-numbered lines from another.

The speed readers read the material three times (average speed: 1,700 words per minute) and claimed to understand it. But they never noticed it consisted of two separate passages mixed together.

Claims that speed readers comprehend just as well as ordinary readers are probably spurious. In one early comprehension test speed readers scored a seemingly respectable 68 percent. But it turned out the test was so easy that people who had never read the material at all scored 57 percent.

To find out the truth about speed reading one may turn to researchers Marcel Just, Patricia Carpenter, and Michael Masson. All are spiritual graduates of the Cecil Adams Cut-the-Comedy School of Scientific Investigation.

Just and company tested three groups: speed readers, normal readers, and "skimmers"--that is, people who were told to read rapidly but had no special training.

The researchers found that the speed readers read a little faster than the skimmers (700 WPM versus 600 WPM) and much faster than the normal readers (240 WPM). But the speed readers' comprehension was invariably worse, often a lot worse, than that of the normal readers.

What's more, the speed readers out-comprehended the skimmers only when asked general questions about easy material. When asked about details, or when reading difficult material, the skimmers and speed readers tested equally poorly.

I'm currently in the middle of Tony Buzan's book on it. It seems to make more outlandish claims than supported facts. I'm doing his exercises now. I have an above average reading speed ( 350 wpm or so) with about 80-90% comprehension. This increases to about 400-500 wpm but comprehension drops to about 40-50%, so I'm not convinced. It is possible, like many other things in life, that the rewards will become evident much later on, but as a person with very limited time, I am a bit impatient and I don't want to waste my time on something that may not work.

Conclusion: speed reading might help you read TV cue cards faster, but for technical stuff, the kind speed-reading buffs want us to read faster so we can outsmart the Japanese, it's pretty useless.

Reading seems to be like losing weight--there's just no fast and easy way to do it.

Now, what seemed to be good take away??

The basic idea is that you need to stop reading with your larynx (i.e., trying to pronounce each word as you go, even if just mentally) and start reading with your eyes (i.e., the information is processed by the brain immediately as you see it).

The trick to shift from one to the other is try pronounce something as you read, like “aeiou” or “123.” Sounds weird, but for me it worked.

With this tip, Enjoy Reading at your own pace!!

Internet..interesting fact

2013-08-23T15:27:00.001-07:00

While I am currently waiting my next flight and really bored to get board..searching for a good internet connection was definitely the need of the hour.

Emirates business lounge came to my rescue with a WiFi gratis aka free...sometimes good things comes free too, huh?? Anyways coming to the subject, found an interesting fact :
"India's internet population has been growing at a rapid pace. In 2012, India added 17.6 million new users, a surge of 31% year-on-year. As a result, India's internet population increased to 73.9 million, beating Japan to become the third largest internet population after the US and China.

In the Asia-Pacific region, India ranks second. The region accounts for a total of 644 million home and work internet users as of March 2013. With 54% share, China leads the internet population in this region. India ranks second but is roughly just one-fifth the size of China. The increasing use of mobile internet, changing consumer behavior, etc. has given a boost to digital media consumption." - source: equitymaster.com

See this pictorial representation to know the details.

China still leads the lot and amazing to look at the difference between first and second ranks.

Having said that, this post has no relation between Anil Ambanis take on their own..err..disowned company.

Signing off for now...

Have you heard about Spark Learning??

2013-05-28T23:41:00.001-07:00

This morning, an unique concept struck in the form of ,y daily dose of good article read, in the name of Spark learning.

For some reasons, I found these new concepts always kindle curiosity in me, I went through it again.

OK must say, I am certainly not disappointed but t found more corelation with what we do on day in day out basis.

Stay tuned to know the details of it...

Nice Read : Heights of Avarice!!

2012-11-25T22:01:00.000-08:00

This evening, I have come across this news article which highlighted the greediness of the human beings and different which ways that we extend ourselves to breakthrough the loop holes of the rules, which were meant to be broken.

image source: urbanlegends.about.com

When I searched through Internet, it was listed as "Burned Cigars Insurance case" so I guess it must be popular and chances are that you may have read them already. In case you have NOT, please go through this article which was very funny, thoughtful and philosophical when you read between the lines to some extend :)

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

Yet another Harshad Mehta?

2012-11-13T22:56:00.000-08:00

Some years back, Harshad Mehta was famous in Indian house hold names all for wrong reasons. Especially if you are upper middle-class and with the I-do-trading-too person, you would have certainly known this person and probably lost some money with him too.

This morning, I read an article which might completely overshadow Harsha Mehta episode. This was about an Indian couple held for stock market scam to the tune of ..hold your breathe..1,100 Crore Rupees. And the Modus Operandi was quite an interesting ... but their promise and premise had SCAM written all over it with 20% return on capital per month..And definitely the below face had that written in Bold letters too. Let us see in detail..

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

Quick Series: Growth Story in India..Is it sustainable?

2012-11-11T08:29:00.000-08:00

As I am going through completing first few modules on economic module chapters, there was this interesting topic on the growth stories of new kids on the world economic market namely China and India.

(Image source Courtesy: aima.org)

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

3 Reasons why Obama should NOT have been elected again..

2012-11-06T22:33:00.000-08:00

By the time I am typing this blog post, the US election results are well announced and "Mr. President" title appears to stay again with Mr.Barack Obama. There was huge backlash on him losing the people's favourite @ Popularity votes but winning through the age old, red tapist electoral college votes. Likes of publicity man, Mr.Donald J Trump, have openly called out for a Revolution.

May be he is having a point and I guess some of these reasons why Obama should NOT have been re-elected again

Reason#3 goes to...

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

What's your ID?

2012-11-01T21:56:00.000-07:00

Today's post is more to do with the current news but sprang out some of its business and philosophical side too...WIthout adding much ado, the title of the post is going to be asked sooner in most of the government of India departments..starting with our favourite Indian Railways.

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

My Last days with blackberry playbook os2

2012-10-21T22:30:00.001-07:00

Couple of months back we were in a dire need of a tablet which could the focus away from the attention grabbing television programmes for my ever growing daughter. However it resulted the same way the chennai corporation lays their Overhead bridges to reduce the traffic congestion.

Instead of reduce the traffic congestion, I always find them spread the congestion to both the ends of the Overhead bridges,so instead of worrying about the traffic at one place, people will starting to worry about two places now.

Back to the topic of the post...

Gadget cures the Epilepsy and Depression by 60%?

2012-09-24T23:04:00.002-07:00

We have heard news about how the modern gadgets imbalances some of the well working parts of human body and debates are still on against the same. However, this morning in this article, I found that the news about gadget drops the effects Epilepsy and Depression as much as by 60%.

(image courtesy: cxvascular.com)

Invented by Neurologists from University of California, un-aptly having the name christened as Monarch, this product promises ...

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

Photo Reading - What is it?

2012-09-24T07:34:00.001-07:00

With the mounting pressure on the ongoing studies with an inversely proportional time availability concerns, I was looking for a tooth or toothless fairy to tender its helping hand. In the recent residential campus week, I did update my facebook status like given below: "how to write 3000 words essay that includes concepts from 2 text book bundles and 100+ reference books on a single case study?? Currently looking for that guy who who stuffed the genie inside the lamp ...@Day-3 of #MudhiyorKalvi #LifeIsStillGood"

In case you think, I was kidding..no I was NOT, as it was true search for such capabilities. And the good news is, I seemed to have found my solution in Photo Reading.

With my continued practice of the same for the latest quest to learn the PhotoReading, I completed a recent book of the week namely write it down, make it happen by Henriette Anne Klauser (remembered author name thanks to Photo Reading technique) in surprising 1 hour and 15 minutes approximately.

Before you go further on "this is it" moment based on my stats, read my recent facebook status : "It is irony that with the help of PhotoReading technique I learnt over the weekend, I finished this 28 page NASA documentation on "why PhotoReading cannot work" in 6 minutes with appendix questions answered over :) Try out and let me know h

ow much time you took to to comprehend : Is this what you call A sense of False confidence, NASA?http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20000011599_2000009345.pdf.. #PhotoReading

".

Let us see what is Photo Reading little deeper by clicking proceed further link below:

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

Mobile blogging finally

2012-09-14T23:48:00.001-07:00

So far the big bottleneck turned out to be the lack of time in front of the proper typing medium and software, to attribute my non publishing blog posts. Thanks to the phone swapping idea proposed by my better err...best half, I traded my favorite blackberry with an iPhone.

I am regretting heavily now on how come I missed possessing an apple product so far, as I see an amazing transformation.

I guess I will have to elaborate it in my next post as it is getting late here with my exciting toy gadget right now.

Look out for more iPhone praising and blackberry bashing in the upcoming post.

Talk to you tomorrow!!

Guar Gum - India's new gold mine with Oil and Gas Industries

2012-07-17T22:07:00.003-07:00

In my casual browsing through the newyork based reuters surprised with the following statement: "But it just so happens that when the hard little bean that a former farmer from Northern India, Rajasthan in Particular, grows is ground up, it becomes an essential ingredient for mining oil and natural gas"

Halfway around the world, earnings are down for an oil services giant, Halliburton, because prices have risen for guar, the bean that the Indian farmers raise.

Halliburton’s loss was, in a rather significant way, Indian Farmer's gain — a rare victory for the littlest of the little guys in global trade. The increase in guar prices is helping to transform this part of the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India."

Wondering the details of the Fracking in US and Indian link, wait till tomorrow for the cover story post!! :)

Ideal option for downloading videos from Youtube..freely

2012-07-17T21:46:00.000-07:00

Recently I was looking for an option to download one of my recent favorite video song , "Nenjodu Cherthu" from private album - "Yuuvh". I encountered several products but each one of them were racing enough to mislead me to download their worthless buggy software. Out of it, I found YTD Video downloader to be a good one.

I completely agree with their statement on : For online video enthusiasts looking to download non-copyrighted or personally owned videos, YouTube Downloader appears to be a near-perfect tool. :)

You can download the YTD (You Tube Downloader) from CNET for free. Though it is a two step process but worth having it especially to download an watch most of the videos that are increasing available in youtube.

On the same topic, today I found that Enolsoft Co., Ltd. today is pleased to update their Free YouTube Downloader HD for Mac software to free download YouTube 1080p HD videos on Mac OS X. This update enables YouTube 1080p HD video streaming offline more smoothly.

Finally, a word of caution: beware of piracy in videos that you are downloading :)

cruel cure for Bed wetting - Madness redefined-part 2?

2012-07-09T21:38:00.001-07:00

I have already written this article about the Pune Mane - Madness Redefined. However, This morning I have come across a shocker news which definitely pulled me into this writing of the post and can definitely call "Madness redefined - Part 2".

Bed wetting of the 5 year old appeared to be root cause of the issue that hit the head lines. If you are wondering why a very normal happening of the bed wetting by a 5 year old could make it to a national news, here is the actual news that may shock you as well.

Shanthi Niketan is very famous due to its association with Robindranath Tagore but last few days were getting maximum hits due to this infamous incident.

In its hostel, apparently a wily warden appeared to have punished the 5 year old kit for wetting her bed ...by...

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

Single Sex education Vs. CoEd, which is good?

2012-07-08T15:06:00.001-07:00

In my attempt to master the art of parenting..err... well, I agree, in order to be able to do a better job of my "mission: best father" goal, I have started preparing myself better by reading various articles to learn father and daughter psychologies. Here I have attempted to capture my thoughts on the same through this "Parent"anandha series. Suggestions to improve this series is welcome.
With this brief introduction, here is the Parentananda series : Episode-1: Single Sex education Vs. CoEd, which is good?

Organization for Gender Equality and Education (Photo credit: my_new_wintercoat)

As the title of the post suggests, I have come across an article which sweetly surprised me with the a truth. See if you already know this : oh.. before I get to that, for the uninitiated like on what is single-sex education, it is also popularly known as Single-Gender Education in a more polished term.

Here is the surprise results from the wikipedia article I read:

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

iPad Vs. mcPad, tablet wars between quality and quantity

2012-07-06T23:38:00.000-07:00

English: Apple iPad Event (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

While the whole gadget world go gaga about the new Google Nexus and the latest buzz on the iPad Mini to take on the world, some gurus might be screaming that these would be the "tablets to end all tablets" prophecies, I got the whole new insight on the age old debate : Quality Vs. Quantity.

Does that really differentiate between the 550$+ iPads and 55$ McPads, is the question to ask.

Here is the assembly line videos on each of these world which might explain the details of the differences, probably Visually.

Found Interesting, go ahead>>>

Taj Mahal - Panoramic 360 degree view of one the new 7 wonders of the wold

2012-06-27T22:55:00.002-07:00

I stumbled upon a beautiful site this morning which offers a panoramic 360 degree view of the Taj Mahal, the new wonders of the world.

This is the site: http://www.airpano.ru/files/Taj-Mahal-India/2-3 and do let me know how you do you like them.