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I know am a bit late to air my perspective on the hottest topic in India, Corruption. To some of you, who think I might be sleeping all this while, yes you are partially correct :) I was mulling(and lazy too) all this while to share my two cents. Read further only if you could please spare me for moral science class.

In the heat of the moment, generated by so called Team Anna, Media, Aam aadmi word-of-mouth, the definition of corruption was limited to taking bribe / looting public exchequer. All the anti-corruption gung-ho was even more confined at targeting political class and the sarkari-babus. Its more than that.

So what gave birth to Team Anna ? Off-late India has evidenced numerous scams, in the name of 2G spectrum allocation, Commonwealth Games, Aadarsh scam, etc etc. Thanks to CAG for their relentless work. Bunch of social activists Arvind Kejriwal(the RTI guy), Kiran Bedi(retired IPS), Prashant Bushan(advocate), and the most Googled guy in India for a while now, 74 old Anna Hazare(retired Indian Army soldier) came together, branded themselves Team Anna and waged a war on scam tainted UPA 2.0 led government. Though I appreciate their effort in airing their voice against worst spate of affairs in corruption aspect that India is facing, I beg to differ the way they ran the whole show. Read on..

Team Anna, drafted a law to curb the corruption menace called Jan-Lokpal. They had around 12 + drafts altogether to come up with the bill. After tabling several rounds of talks between government and them didn't cut the ice, Anna Hazare went on an indefinite fast from August 16 which led to cinematic melodrama of events like arrest,release, word twisting from none other than PM within less than 2 days and even said he had high regards for Anna :P Never mind, Manmohan learned two cents from his political friends.

After Anna was released from Tihar jail and took a victory parade to Ramlila Maidan, people started hailing him as Gandhi 2011. Did I hear someone saying he is a noble soul ?? :D Momentum gathered like a wild fire, and across the country people went on fast in support for Anna. Factually, not many could figure it out that Anna’s hunger strike was to press on Govt to make it accept their version of Lokpal than that of Govt Committee’s version of Lokpal. It was not exactly about anti-corruption but about a forceful lawmaking. Unfortunately parliament conceded their demands and make him break his fast. I support any individual/group to air their opinion in this country in a peaceful protest. But, I term all of this unfortunate or even illogical ??

In India we already have enough laws, belly-full of organisations to police. Do we need this behemoth Lokpal ? Absolutely a no no. Though people like Arvind Kejriwal who has done more good to our country in the form of RTI, a powerful tool which gave citizens of India a decision power, overlooked the fact that bunch of arm-chair intellectuals framing laws like lokpal will do more harm than we can think of it!! The worst part was that the so called social activists didn’t have accordance among themselves and have more than three lokpal versions. This all-powerful lokpal blindly seems to acheive anti-corruption India by laws punishing individuals for wrongdoing!! :( Did we punish Mr.Kasab yet ?? We have age-old laws saying a murderer might get a life sentence / hanging. Did it ever stop? Can we achieve corruption free India by introducing another organisation Lokpal at the cost of public exchequer ?? There are aplenty questions on how to choose the judge panels, investigators accountability and their sacred profiles!!

In the heat of the moment, Team Anna hallucinated people saying Lokpal is the medicine and it works for you. I only wish they maintained that fast was about making Govt accept their demands in Lokpal. Aam Aaadmi who is vexed about politicians came to the rescue of media/ramlila airing their opinion and raising slogans “I am Anna”. Team Anna intelligently garnered support using social media / urban middle class / especially using TV media streaming 24 X 7 Anna mantras and debates. Yes, all of the supporters you have seen on TV were not even paid a dime to participate in the movement. Probably first of its kind since Independece 1947. Happy about that one.

Hypocrites. We have no scarcity. Our society is full of them(me too). In theory everything seems to be fine and gettable, but when it comes to practice(reality) it hurts!! Some of them who were supported directly or indirectly were definitely a part of corruption and I bet they will be in the future. We do buy movie tickets in black, for a movie that has a storyline of fighting against corruption:) Human tendency is like a dog’s wagging tail. As simple as it is, we cannot get to see an ideal society forever. Did all of them overlook this simple fact. ?? So what does it take to eradicate corruption / evils ?? Its difficult to answer, but definitely I will give it a try. Politicians are looting away public funds allocated into their pockets. Who are electing them? We the people. Why ? I will dissect it further. Its kind of an egg-chicken riddle.

Uneducated : Illiteracy is the worst problems we have been facing for decades altogether. Little interest has been shown on this by our netas than they had time to open restaurants/pubs/wine shops. As if the number of Gods we have in India aren’t sufficient we have demigods i.e. Swamijis and Babas. I feel being literate will make you think about them for a moment. I don’t claim being literate is the solution but definitely solves a part of the problem of Indian disharmony. Will give an individual good enough information about his country and wisdom to elect his representative.

Poor farmer / worker/ labour: We Indians have little concern about the worst spate of affairs a farmer is in. With the advent of IT sector in India, lower/upper middle class aspiring for the white collared jobs, agriculture seemed old fashioned and redundant. Be it land grabbing/SEZs / rapid industrialisation / nature’s outcry in the form of famines or floods,etc are all reasons for the heartbreaking stories of farmers leaving farming and working as a daily labour in major towns/cities. Rich gets richer and poor gets poorer due to unequal resource allocation.

Influenced by false promises / caste factor : Taking advantage of poor farmers / illiterate / unemployed youth, the political campaigns shout aloud making promises only have them stored in archives which never become reality!! What makes them dare enough to escape is people’s lack of power to move them out of chair until the next term of elections. Caste factor is playing a major role in the elected representatives in our country. I strongly wish there be only one factor on which reservations are given in any context i.e. only for the ones below poverty line(BPL) irrespective of their caste/creed/race. Even IIMs had to bow down. :(

Or even worst of all is that there is no better alternative: Yes, I hear this many a times that so and so has voted because he had no better alternative. Eat/Spend ratio of Mr.X is 80/20 and Mr. Y is only 90/10. So I voted Mr.X. Its easy to say that the one who has good intentions join politics and clean the mess up. But see what happened to Jayprakash Narayan of Loksatta party. He was the only candidate to win in his party. Also for a society filled of lower/upper middle class the youth is burdened with responsibility of becoming an engineer / doctor and reap the benefits of his parents. The word politics is itself a profane word in these category of society. Forget about joining and cleansing the system. Our current system/politics is like one pet bottle of municipal water, a single drop alone cannot make a difference. It will just be a part of filth system in no time. Lucky enough we are not yet drained out of honest/willing to serve the society kind of people. Its just that we need more and more of them.

No wonder these days, choosing our public representatives is like digging our own grave!! Age old saying, “Its easier said than done.” Yes, to repair a broken India, a country that has been raped brutally by greedy individuals needs generations to come. Lokpal is no panacea for this tangled web of evils in India.

Now coming to what makes people habituated to bribe giving/taking ?? You need not be an illiterate to be deceived by brokers/officers for getting work done. The highly educated ones, who want to get things done without standing in queues so are a part of this corruption hungama. With globalisation everywhere around the globe, culture impact in India has been worst so far!! :( A generation that is becoming more materialistic is also to blame for the current situation. How many of us(reading this one ) download pirated music/movies and enjoy them at the cost of peoples lives. For eg. aren’t you taking away the earning capacity of a sole bread winner of Mr. Autowallah/ Golgappa guy(Panipuri wallah) whose business is at movie theatres?? Did we ever think of it ? Please do. We all know how employees submit fake bills/receipts to escape tax or avail benifits in their organisations.

 

Is there a single point solution for the rotten society we are living? I strongly believe in foundation that matters most through the next phases of our lives. Though, we still have a chance to change ourselves and move on the right path, at the end of the day this is real world and we are humans who can’t really change things overnight as I have already said. Lokpal is clearly no solution. I promise to be a honest/sincere/dedicated citizen of this country and pledge I promise I will instill strong values when I raise my children. I wish you do so. Lets live and let live. After all didn’t we all read ‘how much land does a man need’ in our school days ??

My friend Karthik's piece of writing Corrupted fight against corruption makes an interesting read too.

I would much appreciate if you drop in your comments about whats on your mind ?? Are you ready to take the pledge ?

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Character: 
Are we all unique by the way we are. No. We all are a variety composition of qualities that we absorb from our society. We learn and grow from others. Our personality is a cocktail mix  of what we learn from society and blending it up with our innate qualities that we are inherited with. This blend of qualities/habits might be good or bad. We even try to imitate and emulate others either intentionally or unintentionally every now and then. This way, slowly we become what we are today. So its a long process how all of us have build our character. Now all of sudden if there is some things that we want to change about our self will it be easy ?? No is the absolute answer. So how to go with this ?

             “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” -Calvin Coolidge

Persistence: 
Its the persistence and perseverance that takes us forward. Taking baby steps in that direction having  faith about what we have started off with strong resolve to change. But its human tendency to falter midway and all together thinking to give it up. Sometimes during this process very baldy we would want to go back to our old comfort level.  Constantly pressing on  is the key to achieve it. The next question is how to press on ? By seeking motivation and inspiration.

  Motivation: 
In a spiritual journey to find ones true self and unleash potential, motivation and inspiration are ever required. Heeding a good piece of advice or criticism  or  even a  pat on the back too when needed from your loving family and friends. Tell others what you want to change about yourself or what you want to achieve/transcend. Publish it it through your blog / social media. Tell your mom and dad. Let everyone know about it and start off .


Be it quitting smoking / losing weight / pursuing your dream, you feel good knowing there are more number of people happy about the thing you want to do rather keeping mum about it. Indeed it will boost our confidence. This way our loving ones keep us motivated all through and with that persistence we can go after anything and get it. You will enjoy every bit of it.

Its the persistence and kind words of motivation from others which will keep you ticking.  Press on !!


Satish Medos

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Today this very day I have turned 24 years old. This time I feel feather-lite at heart and mind. Its been a wonderful journey, passing by  the winds of change and smelling flowers of different seasons. Amazing is the feeling when I look into myself. Its different every time. How and where it all began and where am I heading !? Its a million dollar question.What am I gonna do with this life ?? Hmm...finding answer to this one..I bet you its  definitely the toughest one ever. Once I find it will be  total bliss.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

I have been  sailing away from the safe harbor and feeling the winds. Adjusting and tuning myself, not to make  a living but a life worth living. Its been good to be spiritual. I am happier than ever. Less debts. Less thoughts, less stress. Going easy on things. Eating wisdom biscuits very often,am best ever known to myself in the past two decades. Everything is seeming to be in great shape. Will continue to grow into a stronger and a better being. I know am sounding Narcissistic, but Its O.K.   :)

I was always reluctant at celebrating my birthday but today, for the first time ever in my life have done a cake party, arranged by the fellow associates @ work place. Though initially didn't yield, had to oblige them about cake cutting. I smelled that sooner or later I would break legacy of not cutting cake. It happened today. See this (written on my 22 bday). It was a new thing. It was sounding all chirpy. Will upload the flicks soon. :)

Finally I thank everyone who were out with warm wishes on this bday.


Satish Medos

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What more  could a billion hearts pounding for 6 tight weeks could have had asked for!! Thats the moment. Go India...

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Generally, it takes a lot of traction when we want to change something about ourselves. Especially when it comes to our long established habits like procrastination, late to work, no workout, weird food habits. One will sometime or the other would want to change his habits. I reiterate, its been very difficult for me to change deep rooted notions and to accept new thoughts and actions. It seriously requires a lot of self-control and will power. Having a strong resolve to imbibe the change is the key. 

I have been struggling to cut the crap out of my life and be conscious about everything I do. I wanted to change my food habits and do exercise daily and be wiser in decisions I take and my sleeping habit. Initially I took the extreme path i.e. to eat real foods all the way and avoid the junk. Though I had that resolve for a week or so I gave up to the temptation in the third week. On the top of this I tried to amend my wake up and sleep timings. I was conscious about my failing and was quick at review-feedback-action.

I did all this review-feedback-action thing by creating  a daily-log in my Evernote account where I simply jot down all the things like my wake-up /sleep timings,  daily/office chores, my workout details, my expenses and the most important of all my food intake. When I look at the same for weekend I tend to get a picture of what I have been doing all the week. Believe me, its turning out to be one of the best things I might have done is to keep a watch dog on myself.  :)

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All it takes to embrace change is a strong resolve and to build that will-power muscle going slow.

Also if I have a short term  goal i.e monthly/weekly its very easy to trace where I am failing and also the reason behind it. Its like zeroing in right away where it is required.

In the end, the result is change in my food and money spending habits:

  • Cut down soft drinks like Pepsi/Cola
  • Less consumption of paneer / milk products
  • Stopped eating junk
  • Having vegetables filled breakfasts
  • Less chocolates/ ice creams / cakes / junk
  • More conscious, if my purchase is required/ feasible and there by helping me indirectly to be minimalist and less materialistic
  • Stop making lofty goals and amending the to-do lists which are not feasible.

What I observed in the last three months with myself is, if we need everlasting change, going slow is the key and building the resolve/ will-power is the key.

I wish to imbibe exercising habits and achieve short-term goals in  the coming days....

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I am a happy man this very morning for breaking out of my passive mornings and started being active. Its been a great struggle to wake up and start running for more than two months now. I have at last run today for two km approx and walked for another couple of km.

Its a sheer pleasure getting liberated from my procrastination and started gaining control on the self. I promise to self, now that I have started running, will raise the bar and move on with dogged persistence. I know this time its ain't a lofty goal right away.. neither will my words speak much.

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Will just do it...  Come on yeah.. let the good times roll... :) 

 

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Here I will jot down the list of things I want to accomplish before I die ( thats what they call it bucket list). Got this idea after stumbling upon this article by Celestia on her blog. :)

 

 

These items below  are in random order. 

  1. Be real , leave behind the fake
  2. Eat healthy {eat to survive and enjoy not the other way!!}
  3. Achieve ideal weight slowly.
  4. Make it to my dream home.
  5. To be the greatest dad ever(I am single yet).
  6. Read Mahabharata, Ramayana, Vedas, Upanishads. Bhagawad Gita  
  7. Learn French,Tamil,Malayalam,
  8. Be less materialistic.
  9. Be more and more generous.
  10. Drive the monsterous SUV { like Toyota Fortuner } vrooming all the way  on highways.
  11. Lead minimalist life.
  12. Stop lying.
  13. Stop procrastination.
  14. Put a breakpoint for endless internet browsing.
  15. Stop preaching.
  16. Be a solid Techie guy.
  17. Be less boring.
  18. Regain my legacy in memory power  which is at all time low while am writing this :( 
  19. Sleep well
  20. Be an early riser
  21. Be my own boss
  22. Become an orator and speak flawlessly to a colossal audience.
  23. Run/Jog on a daily basis to build fitness
  24. Understand economy  especially Stock Markets
  25. Do farming
  26. Build web applications
  27. Do research in my topic of interest( any one from the repertoire of my favorites)
  28. Switch to Linux completely( atleast at home)
  29. Never keep a lady waiting again in my life ;)
  30. Learn guitar/drums
  31. Get applause for singing a song at least once in  this lifetime :P
  32. Complete 100 push ups challenge
  33. Involve/Volunteer for FLOSS(Open Source Software Movement)
  34. Adapt a school / children and educate them
  35. Imbibe more and more patience
  36. Learn to drive a car perfectly
  37. Buy a hourglass 
  38. Buy an SLR camera 
  39. Give technical certifications
  40. Run for Marathons
  41. Be sociable at work
  42. Travel in a cruise and experience the difference
  43. Be a writer
  44. Encourage Theatre/Drama 
  45. Act/Write/Involve in Theatre artrs
  46. Write articles for local newspapers about anything.
  47. Go on a world/India tour with my partner
  48. Contribute to the rural India
  49. Be there for Bryan Adams concert(get an autograph..)
  50. Volunteer and involve in backend operations of trusts/welfare organizations/marathons etc.. 
  51. Capture beauty of rain droplets in a camera
  52. Watch all old classic movies of Telugu/Hindi 
  53. Get ghazal Srinivas  collections and other hindi ghazals/shayaris
  54. No back talk
  55. Achieve optimum solution for all my information organization.
  56. Publish technical paper on my topic of interest in computers
  57. Reduce anger
  58. Marry my soul-mate
  59. Have a well groomed garden
  60. Conduct get-together parties
  61. Loose aversion for birthday parties and other occasions

Will add to this from time to time and also update after accomplishing any of the task.

Please comment here if you already have any such list and how you have started working on them ??

 

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Have been to 'Broker' movie. It reflected my thoughts in a crude way. A movie to remember.. :) 

Gist of the movie is I can sum it up in one line which is a famous story all of us might have already heard :  How much land does a Man need? but in its own style. 

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Also movie tries to portrait how brokers have become key drivers of the contemporary society. Director R.P.Patnaik  also ended the movie on a good note saying " Its not waiting for the opportunity to change , but recognizing the opportunity which is more important". 

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Status Quo for September :

Into java development at work ,music driven life while commuting and getting better for some worst reasons or vice versa :| with help of huge amount of caffeine daily

 

Personality hike :p and preventive measures ;)

Realizing that my baby steps approach to lose weight wont work took total control and keeping a self monitoring eye on what am eating and how often am doing it so.But all this only after gaining some 5 plus kg just in 2 months of time.After reducing carbohydrates consumption after 5 PM feeling better.

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Traveling  with ♥♥♥ Awesome Music ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫

When it comes to work life its still in nascent stage which is ready anytime to burst and throttle my relaxed life.Music(Beatles,Yuvan,Kishore Kumar) is what keeping me up and running through my horde of 76 km round trip to office and home :) , even in terrific traffic.☻☻

 

Understanding and demystifying  money !!!

Its fact that  am very bad when it comes to money, so trying to clear off the debts and trying hard to man

age those last week days of a month with so little money :)

 

Reading business and getting datalcoholic

Data---> Information---> Analysis+People pulse(psychology of end user) = business ideas !! ain't it.

Reading loads of articles and feeling information overload. So to make things simple constrained myself to technology and business issues which i love most and the rest take a back seat for now.

List of Books reading/planning to read this month(October)  

  • Entrepreneurship
  1. The Art of Start by Guy Kawasaki
  • Fiction
  1. A Fine Family by Gurucharan Das
  2. The Husband by Dean Koontz
  • Personality development
  1. Linchpin - Are you Indispensable by Seth Godin

Moviespace

A-Movie-A-Week and ATM(AnyTimeMovie) policies is resumed in life after a hectic training schedule of 3 months.

Personal Life

Treating every moment as it comes life at personal level is moving on as usual. No stakes. No gifts :)

 

GTD

Learning and adopting the art of managing information overload and procrastination with the help of some simple life tools and do-it-yourself techniques.(will do a separate post on how this whole GTD thing has worked for me since 2 months now)

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This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

via news.stanford.edu

This is awe inspiring speech from worlds one of the greatest biz brain and thinker who is creating ripples in the worldwide market through innovative products from apple. Hats off Steve :)
Also watch the video here

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The following is a presentation which is similar to what I believe one should accomplish before getting in to the coffin box. So reblogging it here Smile .

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Four things you must accomplish before you die

Have you considered the fact that death is everywhere at anytime? No matter where we are and irrespective of our age or state of health it will come like a thief snatching us without any warning. More often than not we don’t realize the waste we have had in our life until it’s too late.

I firmly believe that life is not just about blind adherence to conventional systems from which we are mold into. Rather, it is a journey of discovering what we really are and what we are capable of. While some are satisfied with their default lot in life, I oftentimes wonder if we are meant to limit ourselves to what’s already before us. It has been the error of many to aspire the material glitters of this world; and what are called accomplishments are those that satisfy the many manifestations of one’s ego.

Life is not about the satisfaction of the whims of the flesh; it is not about power, recognition, fame, fortune or anything that belongs to this temporary world. The things worth accomplishing in life are the ones that further our awareness of our own spiritual selves. For when everything ceases, our essence shall remain. But what shall become of it if we have limited our awareness to the narrow wisdom of this world?

On this premise, here are the things one must try to accomplish before he departs from this limited consciousness called the physical:

Mastery of one’s self

Whether we deny it or not, we are but creatures of this world. We share the same characteristics with other living things roaming on this planet. As such, we follow certain instincts bestowed upon us by nature to ensure the survival of our kind. However, we have a powerful distinction: awareness—an animal that is aware of itself.

Still, we are slaves of our animal instincts. Our reason can be easily overridden by our primal urges, thus making us automatically act without thinking. No matter how advance we have made of our civilizations, our basic instinct dominates our every action—unless we chose to be aware of them.

Knowing one’s self brings us closer to discovering who we are beyond our form. When we become aware of the tendency of our minds to be reactive, we will be able to elevate ourselves from the control of our body.  We can accomplish great things if we are able to master ourselves—and with that mastery comes a deeper understanding of a higher being within us. The more we take control of ourselves, the less we suffer from the limitations of the flesh.

Understand the true nature of love

An old cliché states that love makes the world go round, but majority of people have little understanding about the true nature of love. We tend to corrupt love with our selfishness and ignorance. While we think we’re displaying love, we’re just actually satisfying an internal craving. Love is not about being with someone you like, or taking control of the people you care about; it is not about authority or subservience or right or wrong.

The true essence of love can only be understood once we learn to let go our ego. Love harbors no pain, reciprocity, doubt, hatred nor anything that originates from one’s pride. Only by understanding the true essence of love can we emancipate ourselves from our narrow perception of it, and with such come the awareness about our capability to love unconditionally.

Courage to challenge conventional wisdom

Successful people of this world are well aware that they would have not elevated themselves to the where they are had they not challenged the admonitions of conventional wisdom. They are those who are wise enough to use their own reason instead of blind adherence to an established norm. Let it be written on your epitaph that you are a person who had not been easily swayed by any form of collective consensus without taking into consideration the filter of one’s judgment.

History has proved the greatness of those who tested the waters before they believe in the theories of others. If it wasn’t for the courage of Copernicus in defying the common belief of his time that the earth is the center of the universe, where would we be in our understanding of astronomy? There are many examples of this courageous defiance written in our history: accounts of those who have discovered their greatness by being vigilant on challenging the validity of certain established beliefs. Be one of them.

Personal salvation

People live yet they’re dead. From the moment of his birth, he becomes a dummy of some forces that blinds him from seeing the truth. He was inculcated with belief systems from which he patterns some of the vital decisions in his life. He was taught of what is right from wrong; who is God and who is the devil; what is moral and what is immoral; what is good and what is bad.

If there’s one vital thing I have learned about life that would be to open my eyes to the true picture of things. Most of the beliefs of man are prejudicial. What’s ideal for one may not be for the other, we fall unto the trap of favoring things that coincides with our expectations.

Have we really sought the truth in the many circumstances we have faced in our lives? What good shall one gain by being stubborn to the “absoluteness” of what he believes? If for example I don’t agree with euthanasia because of my conviction that claiming the life of someone is wrong, what will my conviction be if I’m put in a situation where I suffer from the devastation of a painful terminal illness?

There are no absolutes in this world. It is our task to find within ourselves the truth about everything that’s happening around us. Salvation comes once we have learned to abandon our judgments to see what really is, and from there we are able to see things beyond the confines of our senses.

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The real problem is not the problem itself but the way we approach towards the problem..More often than not method is wrong but issue is right as said by journalist Jarnail Singh who hurled the shoe at Chidambaram....

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/762415/1542353.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGbxZIQAZs5 Satish Medos satishmedos Satish Medos Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:55:00 -0800 Leaving behind the strings attached... http://unlimitedpotential.posterous.com/leaving-the-behind-the-strings-attached http://unlimitedpotential.posterous.com/leaving-the-behind-the-strings-attached We all do attach strings to everything we do in our mundane life, which are small by the individual magnitude but at sometime or the other they take their toll on us collectively leaving life chaotic; be it habits ,attitude, perceptions or even opinions.. everything counts. They hold us back and we just keep ourselves busy getting out of the fuss which is what we feel herculean task and miss the wonderful opportunity which is disguised in the form of crisis. Once we find this underlying opportunity in crisis everything is happy happy ...easy easy..

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6919233/2/istockphoto_6919233-fasten-the-shoes.jpgIts been a tough time for me to get out of the turmoil i got into unfortunately ... though am not completely out of it , now trying to slowly get off the strings attached to myself which are more of emotional and self made cookery rather than any cliche responsibilities. Who said climbing Mt Everest is an herculean task , there are more or less similar trysts in everyone's life. Yes, I mean it. But then what I comprehend is all this is to let us know us 'ok man don't sleep , you are in danger .. be alert.. be alert!!!' With Satyam fiasco and my Mom's deteriorating health , I  learned good amount of lessons since my completion of graduation to till date , which I only wish make me cautious rest of my life and move on ... as someone said wisely Almighty gives us nuts , he does't crack them... that's life !! Well now I'm more open minded than ever before to accept the reality and I promise myself to lead the life with  grit and strong determination towards each and every task I do , not letting the evil procrastination take on me :)

Finally am leaving the family, friends, my computer ( my rescue for a long time) , the place where I've been living for the past 16 years and those memories behind to take the charge in USAI Forge(http://usaiforge.com) a sister company of OCTL(http://octlindia.com) as an Assistant Engineer Trainee this Monday i.e., on 21 December. Wish normalcy will take  over and I take this opportunity to thank all my friends( Sai Manohar , Sai Kiran, Sravan Pradjumna , Dilip Chowdary, Karthik Gupta , Sravan )   and well wishers who stood by me and supported me all through with all patience though perturbed by my strange behavior , and I promise this time , will come back stronger and better... Wish me well ...


Satish Medos

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Off late I have seen two instances where the talent has been rewarded its worth and respect, which is deserving enough. One is the Telugu Cinema Nandi Awards 2008 ( say it Oscar of Tollywood) and the other is  Dhee -2 a reality( seriously its mostly real unlike the other fake reality shows) dance show for upcoming coreographers to prove their mettle.


Telugu Cinema Nandi Awards 2008  under the jury headed by Thamma Reddy Bharadwaj
 ( famous producer ) has done it apropos this time. They have even abandoned giving away awards in five categories which is a clear indication on how the movie making these days is turning out to be with all the junk filled with almost no value to anyone. On the other hand they have encouraged the movies that are really worth deserving I feel so like Gamyam grabbing awards in three categories which reinforces that a good story with solid narration is nevertheless a winner, both in the audience and the awards. Allari Naresh won supporting actor, while Krish ( director ) won the best director for the movie Gamyam and Seetharamashastri won one for the brilliantly composed song Enthavaraku ani adakku for his beautiful lyrics. The other biggie this time worth mentioning is a technical extravaganza Arundathi for all its glitz both onscreen and offscreen contributed by actors and techincians respectively. It bagged a total of 9 awards and a jury award for the spell bound performance by  the Bommali Anushka which speaks of it all and  Kudos to the movie makers like Shyam Prasad Reddy who always dared to do it big when he does unlike throwing away the junk every now and then. This time 7 technicians for the same film Arundathi deserved it and very rightly these awards is a pat on their shoulders saying go boy go give us some entertaining stuff like this again. Thanks to the awards for being given for what they are rather than who they are [ you got me what I mean by this right :) ]


In the reality-flu stricken telugu tv channels, hardly a show airing on telivision is really real. But amidst all these having the Indian dance demi-god Prabhu deva as the inspiration behind the Dhee-2 a dance show for upcoming choreographers to prove their mettle.Its the one among those fake reality shows with almost no frills attached it and entertains with some genuine dance movements and less bak bak of judges and at last something real. This is a show from Mallemala Tele Entertainers of aforesaid daring producer Shyam Prasad Reddy. The two winners of the show won each a Villa worth whopping 35 Lakhs and also a chance to compose dance for the upcoming movie of NTR and Vinayak. Now thats a real appreciation for what they are rather than who they are.Thanks to the people like Shyam Prasad Reddy who is out there encouraging the real talent. My hearty whishes for all those winners and dreamers of making a mark in the industry of cinema. Its always good to get what they deserve , isn't it ?  We need more of  this and lets hope this continues forever...


- Satish Medos

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Now that almost after 7 months off to reading stuff and having all the time in the world I've  decided to get back and become mad once again at books of  various genres. This time its gonna be a good mix of various genres and authors and also some autobiographies which I've been deferring eternally to get my hands on to :) The deadline is 30 December 2009 , 29 books in 84 days.

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The Big List goes here ...( not necessarily in the order of reading )

  1. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie 
  2. The A B C Murders - Agatha Christie
  3. Indira Gandhi - Inder Malhotra 
  4. The Elephant , the Tiger and the Cellphone - Shashi Tharror 
  5. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte`
  6. Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less  -  Jeffrey Archer
  7. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
  8. Its not about the bike---My journey back to life - Lance-Armstrong
  9. Honour among thieves - Jeffrey Archer
  10.  Bachelor Of Arts - R K Narayan
  11. Malgudi Days - R K Narayan
  12. The God of small things -Arundati Roy
  13. Two States - Chetan Bhagat ( releasing Oct 9  2009 ) ( 15 Oct 2009 )
  14. India Unbound - Gurucharan Das
  15. An Autobiography - M.K.Gandhi 
  16. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - Rashmi Bansal ( 2 Nov 2009 )
  17. Talks on Gita - Viobha Bhave
  18. The Husband - Dean Koontz
  19. Cat O Nine Tales - Jeffrey Archer
  20. It Happened in India - Kishore Biyani ( left out midway - restarting )
  21. Fine Balance
  22. The Corrections
  23. ....

Will add the rest of the books while progressing ...
You can join me on goodreads.com @ http://www.goodreads.com/satishmedos

Wish me Good Luck and do recommend the ones I could add to my reading list :) If someone out there wishes to join would love to welcoome with open arms :)

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I was just one among the awful lot,
but feels ain't I anymore   

It then appeared a blissful heaven to get into ,
but feels like it isn't anymore

Had had outlandish dreams, featuring full of life , 
but they aren't the same anymore

Had had bellylaugh, guffawed sharing mirth,
no good left to share anymore

Wasn't caring enough to the family,
but ain't I the same anymore

Wasn't black hat then to have a contingency,
but ain't I the same anymore

Life was a box of chocolates then ,
isn't it same anymore....? 

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Following article by Dr. Sonia Kakar( drsonia@orientpaperbacks.com)  from Orient Literary Review of July 2009 is a bliss for this contemporary idiots who hate themselves most of the times for their memory loss.

Why am I loosing my Memory ?
There are several reasons why you could be losing our memory. Sorry to say, age is actually the cause. Information is stored in three different parts of your memory : short-term memory, the recent memory and the remote or distant memory.

Information stored in the short-term memory may include the name of a person you met a few minutes ago.Information stored in the recent memory may include what you ate for breakfast today.Information stored in the remote  memory includes things that happened years ago, Such as memories of childhood.

Beginning in your 20's you begin to lose brain cells a few at a time. Your body also starts to make less of the chemicals  that your brain cells need to work.The older you are, the more these changes can affect your memory Aging may affect memory by changing the way your brain stores information and by making it harder to remember stored information.

Your short-term and remote memories are not usually affected by aging. But your recent memory can be affected. You may forget names of people you met recently. These are normal changes.

Healthy habits to improve Memory

 

Regular Exercise

Increases oxygen to your brain. Reduces the risk for disorders that lead to memory loss, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. May enhance the effects of helpful brain chemicals and protect brain cells.

Managing  Stress

 

Cortisol, the stress hormone, can damage the hippocampus if the stress is unrelieved. Stress makes it difficult to concentrate.

Good Sleep Habits

 

Sleep is necessary for memory consolidation. Sleep disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea leave you tired and unable to concentrate during the day.

Not Smoking

 

Smoking heightens the risk of vascular disorders that can cause storke and constrict arteries that deliver oxygen to the brain.

 


Nutrition and Memory Improvement

You probably know already that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and "healthy" fats will provide lots of health benefits, but such a diet can also improve memory. Research indicates that certain nutrients nurture and stimulate brain function.

Best source for B Vitamin B6, B12 and folic acid : spinach and other dark leafy greens, broccoli, asparagus, strawberries, melons, black beans and other legumes, citrus fruits, soybeans.

Best source for Antioxidants like vitamins C and E, and beta carotene: blueberries and othe berries, sweet potatoes, red tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, green tea, nuts and seeds, citrus fruits, liver.

Best source for Omega-2 fatty acids: cold-water fish such as salmon, herring, tuna, halibut and mackerel; walnuts and walnut oil; flaxseed and flaxseed oil.

But remember, nutrients work best when they're consumed in foods, so try your best to eat a broad spectrum of colorful plant foods and choose fats that will help clear, not clog, your arteries. Your brain will thank you!

 

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                  With ever increasing computer usage and internet spreading like wild fire its really hard to find the information either in your local computer, server or internet. Trying to bridge that gap , I bring a series of articles under the lingo browse-better to make our lives easier smarter and productive like never before. This place will be no geeky stuff but considering only the simplest possible computer user :) If you wish to throw away tips here just don't mind , say whatever you want to and also suggest something better , because I believe sharing is loving.

                  How do you search for the information that you want to know about when stumbled upon a web page which you are totally unaware of or even that you might be interested in knowing ? " Duh,I search ( Google , Yahoo , Bing , Ask etc ) it or head on to Wikipedia " might be your answer. What if you aren't satisfied by the Wikipedia info , you start searching other encyclopaedia or something else. Assuming that this takes about one to two minutes of your search for one click process , how many such clicks will you encounter for one whole article on a website and for a whole day!! Uh oh a lot of pain in answering that one : | but the ultimate rescue is 1-Click Answers. All you need is a single click ( Alt + left click on your mouse ).

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Interested in knowing about Mahatma Gandhi, searching on Wikipedia will yield the information.

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Wikipedia will yield all the information regarding Mahatma Gandhi in a hierarchical way and sometimes it also might be overloaded or unnecessary information for you when looking for just some titbits.

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But with One Click Answers its so easy that you can chose between numerous resources without even leaving the current page  only by a single click :) Beauty !

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Also personalize what to show by default , either a dictionary or encyclopaedia or even translating options. Cool isn't it !

 

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Search directly inside your pdfs , word documents etc ....

 

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Chose between displaying answer bar , hot keys, start up at windows etc ...

 

            This piece of software weighs about 1.3 MB and eats about 8 MB of your RAM , runs on Windows 2000 , XP , Vista , 7 and also compatible with IE , Firefox , Opera. Impressed ? Go get it for your

Have a  better browsing day :)

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