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About APJ Abdul Kalam...

2015-10-24T20:24:00.000+05:30

In material terms, the "People's President", it now transpires, owned precious little, save his 2,500 books, a wrist watch, six shirts, four trousers, three suits and a pair of shoes. Kalam did not own any property nor a fridge, TV, car or an air conditioner. This for a man who spent over five decades in public service, including his stint as President of the Republic.

Jack Ma's advice for different ages in professional life

2015-10-12T23:34:00.003+05:30

Before 20 Years Old: Be a good student. The way to entrepreneur, just learn some experience. Before 30 Years Old: Follow somebody. Go to a small company. Normally in a big company it’s good to learn processes. You’re a part of a big machine. But when you go to a small company, you learn the passion, you learn the dreams, and you learn how to do lots of things at any one time. So before 30

7 Business Model Personalities

2015-10-12T22:53:00.000+05:30

http://www.inc.com/neal-cabage/7-business-model-personalities.html

You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential

2015-10-12T22:50:00.000+05:30

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=you-can-increase-your-intelligence-2011-03-07 1. Fluid intelligence is trainable. (your capacity to learn new information, retain it, then use that new knowledge as a foundation to solve the next problem, or learn the next new skill, and so on.) 2.

Lean in a line...

2015-10-10T20:13:00.000+05:30

Lean - Value Stream Flow on Pull to Perfection

Toyota’s 14 Management Principles (The Toyota Way: J Liker)

2015-10-10T18:35:00.000+05:30

Principle 1: base your management decisions on a long-term philosophy, even at the expense of short-term financial goals. Principle 2: create continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface Principle 3: Use “Pull” systems to avoid overproduction Principle 4: level out the workload Principle 5: build a culture of stopping to fix problems, to get quality right the first time Principle 6:

Deming’s 14 Points for Management (Out of the Crisis; W.E. Deming)

2015-10-10T17:39:00.000+05:30

1. Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. 2. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change. 3. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate

Arthur Schopenhauer comparing life to loan...

2015-02-09T13:53:00.000+05:30

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Principles of Least Action, Time, Resistance, Information...

2015-02-08T18:17:00.002+05:30

In nature, least action is taken along a path of least resistance in least time assuming least information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_action The Principle of Least Time In the 1600s, Pierre de Fermat postulated that "light travels between two given points along the path of shortest time," which is known as the principle of least time or Fermat's principle The Principle

Paradox of Choice Vs principle of maximising alternatives...

2015-02-08T16:26:00.003+05:30

Paradox of choice - Why More Is Less is a 2004 book by American psychologist Barry Schwartz. In the book, Schwartz argues that eliminating consumer choices can greatly reduce anxiety for shoppers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice Principle of maximizing alternatives - Intelligent behaviour, which is hard to quantify, can be reduced to maximising one's options http://

Top 40 Buffett-isms...

2015-01-30T19:01:00.000+05:30

http://www.forbes.com/sites/agoodman/2013/09/25/the-top-40-buffettisms-inspiration-to-become-a-better-investor/ 1. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.” 2. “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” 3. “Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is

Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins - Annette Simmons summary

2015-01-29T01:40:00.002+05:30

http://www.actionablebooks.com/en-ca/summaries/whoever-tells-the-best-story-wins/ "People don’t want more information. They can’t process the information they already have. What they want is faith in you, your words, and your good intentions." Fuel perceptions with intentional stories six of the most influential story types: Who-I-am stories tell listeners what qualifies you to influence them

Brief - Joseph McCormack summary

2015-01-29T00:04:00.000+05:30

http://www.actionablebooks.com/en-ca/summaries/brief/ Start by listening "What you're talking about matters to the person you're talking to, and your active listening tells you what matters to that person. You have the other person's interest and assent." Listening to other people is the simplest way to craft your message to give them just what they need. He recommends two tactics for

Flawless Consulting - Flawless consulting summary...

2015-01-28T22:56:00.000+05:30

http://www.actionablebooks.com/en-ca/summaries/flawless-consulting/ Keep consulting simple and focus on two dimensions First is to build an authentic relationship with the customer. The second dimension is to be knowledgeable about what needs to happen during each phase of the project and ensuring that the phase is completed before moving on Contracting, Discovery and Inquiry,

microformats principles - summary of key principles

2015-01-19T22:48:00.000+05:30

http://microformats.org/wiki/principles solve a specific problem start as simple as possible solve simpler problems first make evolutionary improvements design for humans first, machines second be presentable and parsable visible data is much better for humans than invisible metadata (see: Principles of visibility and human friendliness). adapt to current behaviors and usage patterns, e.g.

Learning to learn - summary of 2 weeks of coursera course...

2015-01-14T22:50:00.005+05:30

https://class.coursera.org/learning-003 jigsaw big picture - top down / large picture view by high level overview build the jigsaw puzzle / concept mapping from memory Context connects big picture and chunks Get jigsaw pieces - bottom up / chunking by focused learning chunking focused attention chunking time - pomodoro to tackle

Aerofarms.. - one of possible futures of veggie farming

2014-12-29T03:18:00.001+05:30

AeroFarms has developed a vertical farming system that can grow organic baby leafy greens in urban settings. They're doing it using aeroponics -- the process of growing plants in mist without any soil -- and plan to launch a branded product from a new 80,000-square-foot warehouse in Newark, New Jersey... http://www.bloomberg.com/video/

sharing economy...

2014-09-06T09:35:00.000+05:30

airbnb - taking the friction out of the process...

Job To Be Done (JTBD) - Approach to redefine the product design methodology

2014-09-04T00:39:00.000+05:30

Job To Be Done (JTBD) and outcome expectations that redefine the product design methodology...

Coursera learnings

2014-07-15T14:29:00.000+05:30

- no binary way to pass or fail - concept of re-attempts- open book- self contained video instructions, notes- mix of self paced n scheduled pace- closer for adoption for use in real life- reputed, instructor

MS Access...

2014-07-15T13:55:00.000+05:30

Access -http://allenbrowne.com/casu-01.html http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.htmlstructure of an Access databaseTables to store your data.attributes/columns including a primary key attribute or combination of attributesrecords/rowsindexesrelationships bet tables, to bring the data across tables together in a query, form, or reportQueries to find and retrieve just the data that you want.select (

Getting to yes...

2014-07-15T13:54:00.000+05:30

"Separate the people from the problem." "Focus on interests, not positions." "Invent options for mutual gain." "Insist on using objective criteria." "Know your BATNA (Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement)" PIOOB -> problem, interests, objective criteria, options, BATNA

Openstack services

2014-07-15T13:50:00.000+05:30

Openstack services Compute (Nova) Object Storage (Swift) Block Storage (Cinder) Networking (Neutron) Dashboard (Horizon) Identity Service (Keystone) Image Service (Glance) Telemetry (Ceilometer) Orchestration (Heat) Database (Trove) Elastic Map Reduce (Sahara)

pseudo code

2014-07-02T12:37:00.000+05:30