tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65232612024-03-17T00:22:39.848+05:30Jitendra's BlogJitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-77694926263358733762018-06-26T12:18:00.000+05:302018-06-26T12:18:57.211+05:30How to build a global product or service?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since humans were 'dropped' on the earth they have developed local languages, cultures, and societies unique to their part of the world. These cultures define and influence the way people express themselves. Different cultures express things differently, sometimes gestures, facial expressions or a doodle tend to work when we don't know the other language and want to convey our message. Interactions between societies that happen in the form of products, services, forms of arts and sciences each culture have to offer the other, are also examples of communication.<br />
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Every offering is a communication.</blockquote>
In today's connected world it has become magically easier to access markets across cultures and sell what you have in your basket. It is so easy to interact with consumers from any part of the world. The focus though is set on the technology rather than how 'humane' the offering is? Technology should be considered as a channel, not a context, not an objective. If the consumer is not able to perceive the context and is not able to relate to/benefit from it, the communication or offer fails.<br />
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Technology is a horse to ride, not the context.</blockquote>
A few examples of truly global offerings (as products, services, arts, sciences and everything).<br />
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<li><b>Pizza</b>, a typical Neapolitan meal, has a global presence. Can you find a city where you don't find a pizza eatery? (Think why)</li>
<li><b>Yoga</b> - Originated in India; Practiced everywhere. (Think why)</li>
<li><b>Ford's Model T</b> - These were the first-of-its-kind cars introduced in the 1900s meant for the common American. It took no time for this company to quadruple its profits. (Think why)</li>
<li>Movies, like, <b>Titanic </b>or adventures of <b>Jurassic Park</b> doesn't necessarily need translation.</li>
<li><b>Charlie Chaplin’s</b> silent movies were very well connected to the masses and are still relevant in today's 'loud' world. (Think why)</li>
<li>When cartoons were limited to a corner of newspapers <b>Disney</b> created animated cartoons and won Oscars! Tell me a child who does not know Mickey Mouse (Think why)</li>
<li>Who imagined <b>Whatsapp</b> will do so much better than any other messenger in the Internet history! (Think why it disrupted the market which was dominated by giants like MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk)</li>
<li><b>Google Search</b> – Can you live a day without Google? (Think why)</li>
<li><b>iPad/iPhone</b> – Microsoft and HP were ahead of Apple in launching their tablets but iPad was a classic success and iPhone (and other smartphones) caused the mass extinction of Nokia phones. (Think why)</li>
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Think why these offerings are/were loved by the world irrespective of language barriers and cultural differences.</blockquote>
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All these offerings have given the experiences which consumers desire (knowingly or unknowingly), or, if not, they found that these offerings cared about them and their individual experiences and these are useful too.<br />
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Pizza and Coke are communicating taste and a quick option to fill; yoga is communicating wellness; Ford's T model is communicating affordable comfort and speed of travel/time saving; a movie or painting is communicating a dream/fiction/reality that people can relate to; James Bond is communicating style and determination; WhatsApp is communicating the ease of messaging, who knew a gang of odd 40 people will produce something that will wipe out Gtalk, MSN and Yahoo messengers and email to a great extent! Even grandparents today are able to use Whatsapp easily, quickly and confidently, this wasn't the case with other messengers and email services!</div>
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<strong>Because customers are buying a product or service doesn't actually mean they love it. Buying and selling are nothing more than a commercial activity which involves give-and-take. But how many of these customers actually love what you offer, how many of them feel satisfied, accomplished and can relate themselves to what you offer?</strong>
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Is your offering focussing on thier needs, thier experience and thier satisfaction?</blockquote>
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These all have influenced people across all hemispheres because of some common traits which bring the two entities - the producer and consumer closer to each other erasing all the cultural and regional boundaries.</div>
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Is your offering humane?</blockquote>
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Whether it is a cabbie service, flying scooter, a digital product, or any offering; it should be shaped in and around the following:</div>
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<li>Should have a purpose; should be useful, simple to use, should have a "personality" and aesthetics.</li>
<li>It should derive a sense of accomplishment among users, the consumer should feel happy, satisfied and accomplished.</li>
<li>Should be honest – As Dieter Rams said “It does not make a product appear more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept”</li>
<li>People can relate to it, your offering should create a sense of belongingness and must be able to adapt to accommodate the local dynamics as a result of cultural and economic differences.</li>
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These traits define human values and drive the message across cultures with higher acceptance.</div>
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<strong>What do you think, makes a product or service, truly global?</strong></div>
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-57638285743970134432017-12-19T16:46:00.000+05:302018-06-26T12:20:12.960+05:307 Favorite Science Books of 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I stumbled upon this great list of science books cherry picked by <a href="https://twitter.com/brainpicker" target="_blank">Maria Popova</a>.<br />
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<b>1. The River of Consciousness by oliver Sacks</b><br />
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Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology.<br />
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The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.<br />
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<b>2. The Songs of the Trees by David George Haskell</b><br />
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David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees.<br />
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Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.<br />
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<b>3. Code Girls by Liza Mundy</b><br />
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Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II.<br />
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While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.<br />
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A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.<br />
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<b>4. Why Time Flies by Alan Burdick</b><br />
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“Time” is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we’re bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?<br />
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In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that “now” actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist’s lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all.<br />
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<b>5. The Great Unknown by Marcus Du Sautoy</b><br />
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Ever since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know--to understand the physical world and the laws of nature. But are there limits to human knowledge? Are some things beyond the predictive powers of science, or are those challenges simply the next big discovery waiting to happen?<br />
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Marcus du Sautoy takes us into the minds of science's greatest innovators and reminds us that major breakthroughs were often ridiculed at the time of their discovery. Then he carries us on a whirlwind tour of seven "Edges" of knowledge - inviting us to consider the problems in quantum physics, cosmology, probability and neuroscience that continue to bedevil scientists who are at the front of their fields. He grounds his personal exploration of some of science's thorniest questions in simple concepts like the roll of dice, the notes of a cello, or how a clock measures time.<br />
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Exhilarating, mind-bending, and compulsively readable, The Great Unknown challenges us to think in new ways about every aspect of the known world as it invites us to consider big questions - about who we are and the nature of God - that no one has yet managed to answer definitively.<br />
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<b>6. The Dialogues by Clifford V. Johnson</b><br />
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A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects that range from the science of cooking to the multiverse.Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu, along with topics like politics, books, sports, or the latest prestige cable drama. Conversations about science, he tells us, shouldn't be left to the experts. In The Dialogues, Johnson invites us to eavesdrop on a series of nine conversations, in graphic-novel form -- written and drawn by Johnson -- about "the nature of the universe." The conversations take place all over the world, in museums, on trains, in restaurants, in what may or may not be Freud's favorite coffeehouse.<br />
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The conversationalists are men, women, children, experts, and amateur science buffs. The topics of their conversations range from the science of cooking to the multiverse and string theory. The graphic form is especially suited for physics; one drawing can show what it would take many words to explain.In the first conversation, a couple meets at a costume party; they speculate about a scientist with superhero powers who doesn't use them to fight crime but to do more science, and they discuss what it means to have a "beautiful equation" in science. Their conversation spills into another chapter ("Hold on, you haven't told me about light yet"), and in a third chapter they exchange phone numbers. Another couple meets on a train and discusses immortality, time, black holes, and religion. A brother and sister experiment with a grain of rice. Two women sit in a sunny courtyard and discuss the multiverse, quantum gravity, and the anthropic principle. After reading these conversations, we are ready to start our own.<br />
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<b>7. Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space</b><br />
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In 1916, Einstein predicted the presence of gravitational waves. One century later, we are recording the first sounds from space, evidence of the waves’ existence caused by the collision of two black holes. An authoritative account of the headline-making discovery by theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer Janna Levin, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space recounts the fascinating story of the obsessions, aspirations, and trials of the scientists who embarked on an arduous fifty-year endeavor to capture these elusive waves<br />
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Five decades after the experiment was dreamed up, the team races to intercept a wisp of sound with two colossal machines, hoping to succeed in time for the centenary of Einstein’s most radical idea. With unprecendented access to the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and risks in this remarkable story, Janna Levin’s absorbing account offers a portrait of modern science that is unlike anything we've seen before.</div>
Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-55766464077219500022017-12-18T17:11:00.001+05:302017-12-18T17:11:56.215+05:3088 Best Online Business Courses for Entrepreneurs, Creatives and Professionals (Free & Cheap)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a list of 88 business courses compiled by Ryan Robinson. These courses cover all aspects of starting up, scaling and running a business:<br />
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<li>Starting a Business & Finding the Right Idea</li>
<li>Growing Your Business</li>
<li>Blogging & Writing</li>
<li>Productivity & Life Hacks</li>
<li>Freelancing & Consulting</li>
<li>Psychology of Success & People Skills</li>
<li>Career Advancement & Landing a Dream Job</li>
<li>Podcasting</li>
<li>Marketing</li>
<li>Building Apps</li>
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Starting a Business: The Best Online Business Courses to Start a Business.</h2>
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<li><a href="http://30daystovalidate.com/?utm_source=ryrob&utm_medium=online-business-courses-post" target="_blank">30 Days to Validate</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/make-money-ramit/" target="_blank">How to Make Money</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/minimum-viable-product/" target="_blank">Minimum Viable Product: Validate Your Idea with Less Than $1,000</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/launch-online-business/" target="_blank">Launching an Online Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/build-a-stand-out-business/" target="_blank">Build a Stand-Out Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/turn-your-service-into-a-product/" target="_blank">Turn Your Service into a Product</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/lean-startup/" target="_blank">The Lean Startup</a></li>
<li><a href="http://profitableonlinecourses.net/" target="_blank">Profitable Online Courses</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.zerotolaunchsystem.com/" target="_blank">Zero to Launch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/art-of-the-start/" target="_blank">Art of the Start: Turning Ideas into High-Growth Businesses</a></li>
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Growing Your Business: The Best Online Business Courses to Grow Your Business</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/value-pricing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #005580; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Value Pricing and Business Models for Creative Entrepreneurs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/make-more-money/" target="_blank">Make More Money and Discover Your Worth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/new-business-toolbox/" target="_blank">The New Business Toolbox</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/building-personal-brand/" target="_blank">Building a Personal Brand</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/smart-pr/" target="_blank">Smart PR for Artists & Entrepreneurs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/personal-mba/" target="_blank">The Personal MBA</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/protect-profit-intellectual-property/" target="_blank">Protect and Profit From Your Intellectual Property</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/hooked/" target="_blank">Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/ditch-your-day-job/" target="_blank">Ditch Your Day Job</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quietpowerstrategy.com/" target="_blank">Quiet Power Strategy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://altmba.com/" target="_blank">altMBA</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.coursera.org/specializations/start-your-own-business" target="_blank">How to Start A Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/amazon/" target="_blank">Amazon Store Management: Run a Successful Amazon Store</a></li>
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<h2>
Blogging & Writing: The Best Online Business Courses for Bloggers</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/storytelling/" target="_blank">Storytelling for Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/content-marketing/" target="_blank">Content Marketing: Blogging for Business Growth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/writing/" target="_blank">Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blogthatconverts.com/" target="_blank">Blog That Converts 2.0</a></li>
<li><a href="http://seriousbloggersonly.com/" target="_blank">Serious Bloggers Only</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/writing-for-brands/" target="_blank">Writing for Brands: Freelancing in the Age of Content Marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/how-to-write-and-sell-an-ebook/" target="_blank">How to Write and Self-Publish a Book</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/bestselling-author-amazon/" target="_blank">How to Become a Bestselling Author on Amazon Kindle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://growthlab.com/products/call-to-action/" target="_blank">Call-To-Action</a></li>
<li><a href="http://guestblogging.com/" target="_blank">Guest Blogging</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/how-to-write-blog-post/" target="_blank">How to Write a Blog Post That Drives Traffic</a></li>
<li><a href="http://members.tribewriters.com/" target="_blank">Tribe Writers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://goinswriter.com/intentionalblogging/" target="_blank">Intentional Blogging: Become a Better Blogger</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.awaionline.com/copywriting/learn/make-six-figures/" target="_blank">Six-Figure Copywriting</a></li>
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<h2>
Productivity & Life Hacks: The Best Online Business Courses to Be More Productive</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/art-of-less-doing/" target="_blank">The Art of Less Doing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/time-management/" target="_blank">Time Management 101</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/productivity/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #005580; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Productivity and Time Management: Get More Done</a></li>
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<h2>
Freelancing & Consulting: The Best Online Business Courses for Freelancing</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/courses/writing-winning-freelance-proposal/" target="_blank">Writing a Winning Freelance Proposal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/going-freelance/" target="_blank">Going Freelance: Building and Branding a Creative Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/command-the-fees-you-deserve/" target="_blank">Command the Fees You Deserve</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/command-the-fees-you-deserve/" target="_blank">Creative Class</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/book-yourself-solid" target="_blank">Book Yourself Solid & Get More Clients</a></li>
</ol>
<h2>
The Psychology of Success & People Skills: Best Online Business Courses for Understanding Psychology</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/master-people-skills/" target="_blank">Master Your People Skills</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/how-to-present/" target="_blank">How to Present: Share Ideas That Inspire Action</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/personal-branding/" target="_blank">Personal Branding for Creative Professionals</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/power-of-body-language/" target="_blank">The Power of Body Language</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/heroic-public-speaking/" target="_blank">Heroic Public Speaking</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/public-speaking/" target="_blank">Become a Better and Funnier Public Speaker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://howtotalktoanybody.com/" target="_blank">How to Talk to Anybody</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/successtriggers/" target="_blank">Success Triggers</a></li>
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<h2>
Career Advancement: The Best Online Business Courses for Growing Your Career</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/creative-purpose/" target="_blank">Fulfill Your Creative Purpose</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/work-remotely/" target="_blank">Work Remotely: Land and Thrive in a Job From Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/insiders-kit/dreamjob/" target="_blank">Find Your Dream Job</a></li>
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Podcasting: The Best Online Businessz Courses for Starting & Running a Podcast</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/podcasting-101/" target="_blank">Podcasting 101</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/power-your-podcast/" target="_blank">Power Your Podcast with Storytelling</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/start-podcast/" target="_blank">Start Your Profitable Podcast & Build a Brand</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/storytelling/" target="_blank">Essential Storytelling Techniques with Producers from Snap Judgment</a></li>
<li><a href="http://podcastersparadise.com/" target="_blank">Podcaster's Paradise</a></li>
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Marketing: The Best Online Business Courses for Marketers and Bloggers</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/market-launch-sell/" target="_blank">Market, Launch and Sell Your Next Big Thing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/modern-marketing/" target="_blank">The Modern Marketing Workshop</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/email-marketing/" target="_blank">Getting Started with Email Marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/social-media-strategy/" target="_blank">Context is Key: Social Media Strategy in a Noisy Online World</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/growth-hacking/" target="_blank">Growth Hacking 101: Introduction to Growth Hacking</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/cold-email/" target="_blank">Crack Cold Emailing to Increase Sales and Grow Your Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/facebook-marketing/" target="_blank">Facebook Marketing for Small Businesses</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/startup-business-development/" target="_blank">Business Development for Startups & Tech Companies</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/instagram-marketing/" target="_blank">Instagram Marketing for Small Businesses</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/funnel-optimization/" target="_blank">The Ultimate Guide to Funnel Optimization</a></li>
<li><a href="http://learn.growhack.com/p/growhack-learn-subscription" target="_blank">Grow Hack's Full Course Library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/get-social/" target="_blank">Get Social: Connecting Your Business Channels</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/skillshare/seo/" target="_blank">SEO That Matters: Tactics and Strategies for Entrepreneurs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/neil-patel/" target="_blank">Driving Traffic to Your Online Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/youtube-marketing/" target="_blank">YouTube Marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/email-marketing/" target="_blank">Effective Email and Newsletter Marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/sales-persuasion/" target="_blank">Sales and Persuasion Skills for Entrepreneurs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://email1k.com/" target="_blank">Email 1K</a></li>
<li><a href="https://chimpessentials.com/" target="_blank">Chimp Essentials: Master MailChimp for Your Business</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/crowdfunding/" target="_blank">Launch a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign</a></li>
<li><a href="http://summerofmarketing.com/" target="_blank">Summer of Marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/affiliate-marketing/" target="_blank">Affiliate Marketing Explained!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://10ksubs.com/" target="_blank">Get 10,000 Subscribers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.quicksprout.com/university/" target="_blank">QuickSprout University's Marketing Course Library</a></li>
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<h2>
App Development: The Best Online Business Courses for Building Apps</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/creativelive/build-app-no-coding/" target="_blank">Make Your Own App: No Coding Required</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ryrob.com/resources/udemy/make-apps/" target="_blank">Essential Guide to Making Apps Without Prior Experience</a></li>
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Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/theryanrobinson" target="_blank">Ryan</a>!<br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com132tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-83907814298246391842017-10-05T19:00:00.000+05:302017-12-18T18:13:18.117+05:30Deepak Chopra on his Quest to Unite Technology, Spirituality & Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/fastcompany" target="_blank">FastCompany</a>; Excerpts from <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepakChopra" target="_blank">Deepak's</a> interview by <a href="https://twitter.com/drake_baer" target="_blank">Drake Baer</a></i>
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Wealth is nothing other than <a href="https://www.deepakchopra.com/video/view/215/ask_deepak__how_gratitude_creates_abundance_consciousness" target="_blank">abundance consciousness</a>. To understand also that your spiritual nature is to always achieve worthy goals but also to have a relationship with your own creative source within the spirit, and to make sure that your behavior reflects love and compassion. I would say success is a progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, and the ability to get in touch with your creative source.<br />
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It’s process. If you’re studying for an exam you’re not thinking about the results. If you’re always worried about the results you can’t study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn’t that what martial arts is about? And that’s what meditation is about, that’s what, in many ways, sports are about. If you adopt that lifestyle (of excellence as behavior rather than outcome), then it can extend to all areas of your life.
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If anyone’s had a bad night’s sleep, the next day’s a disaster. Lack of sleep is now considered to be a very important factor in obesity. It disrupts two hormones, ghrelin and leptin, which are responsible for giving signals of hunger and satiety. Lack of sleep also is a factor in decreased concentration and traffic accidents, the shuttle disaster, the disaster with the oil rig, the Fukushima disasters can be tracked to inefficiency due to lack of sleep. But if you had a good experience of sleep but also through meditation with deep rest in the mind, which is also deep rest in the body, it automatically makes for dynamic activity. Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.
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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it, you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
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In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be a success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-9358283824955428392017-03-28T18:18:00.000+05:302017-12-16T20:22:21.121+05:30Designer vs Developer: how Google is trying to bring them together<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">By <a href="https://www.creativereview.co.uk/author/mustafa-kurtuldu/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Mustafa Kurtuldu</a> (on CreativeReview)</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Google Design Advocate <a href="https://www.creativereview.co.uk/author/mustafa-kurtuldu/" target="_blank">Mustafa Kurtuldu</a> has initiated a YouTube and podcast series aimed at improving understanding between designers and developers</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kurtuldu has been working in digital design since 2001, during which time, he says, he has seen a lot of friction between designers and developers, much of it borne out of a lack of understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As a Design Advocate at Google, he has been party to a lot of internal discussions about how to iron those issues out and thus came up with the idea of Designer vs Developer, a six-part YouTube series and podcast. Released every two weeks, each episode will deal with a different issue, from effective collaboration to whether too much testing and data ruins the creative process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The premise of the show is to try and solve the challenges faced in the industry by having an open conversation between the two, providing takeaways, solutions to workflows, tools and discussions on everyday struggles,” Kurtuldu says. “We also want to introduce design ideas to the developer community and educate them about design best practice. I picked subjects based on things I had personal challenges with, such as the feeling that the world of UX is over regulating the creative process to figuring out how best to work with one another.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first episode, below, shows Kurtuldu in conversation with developer Jake Archibald.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here, Kurtuldu explains a little more about the idea behind the series and how Google uses Sprints to aid collaboration and understanding:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I was super excited <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he writes</em>. It was my first day of my brand new job. I had just finished university and was raring to go. I had made it. I could finally call myself a ‘Designer’. That glorious emotion was short lived though, when my manager approached me and said that my job was to ‘just make it look pretty…’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a perception by those who don’t design that our role is to ‘paint’ existing things, that nothing is original, and we as creative people are nothing more than sensitive flowers (or snowflakes) who just need to be told what to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder if this is down to a degree of envy for what we do. After all, when you look at the designer’s average day or try to explain the ins and outs of how we spend our time, we are incredibly lucky. None of this feels like work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have had real jobs before, from working in a sweatshop, garage as a mechanic, to stacking shelves in a supermarket.Those felt like REAL jobs, but design, to me has always felt like a part of who I am. What surprised me when speaking with Jake was how developers sometimes felt the same, a lack of appreciation for what they do, nothing more than a cog in a machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes I do think we are our own worst enemy, because the privilege of doing what we do we gives us the habit of living in our ivory towers. The language that we use is quite inaccessible to those not involved in design or development. We as an industry often speak of ’empathising with the user’ and ‘user-centric design’, but how can we honestly build empathy for our users if we can’t empathise with each other, or those outside of our towers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Talk is cheap. So how can you create an environment that encourages empathy? Well at Google we advocate <a href="https://developers.google.com/design-sprint/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; transition: border 100ms; vertical-align: baseline;">Design Sprints</a>, which might make you sigh, “what, another process…? Surely that sucks out the creativity?” From personal experience, projects I have worked on that used the Design Sprint process have helped solidify the team and have worked wonders for the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A sprint involves all of the stakeholders in a team, from marketing to engineering, typically five to eight people. This helps break away from the typical office setup of siloed teams. Everyone gets a chance to have a voice and everyone’s voice is respected. Then over the course of five steps, the team goes from learning about the challenge they are trying to solve, coming up with concepts individually, sharing those ideas, deciding and refining, building a prototype and finally testing the proof of concept. This process creates a bubble where the whole team works concisely to solve a problem in a short space of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An example of a Design Sprint I was involved in was for a project that was sponsored by <a href="http://www.google.org/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; transition: border 100ms; vertical-align: baseline;">Google.org</a>, who funded a programme to help children with clubfoot. With a coalition of charities, we were able to get all of the information about the condition, such as the process of curing clubfoot, and the challenges faced in countries which have high numbers of patients. From this, the whole team learnt together about the day to day hardships doctors face and the stigma attached to the condition in some parts of the world. Once we came up with a collection of concepts, we managed to create UX flows and prioritise the focus of the project, allowing the charities to develop a system that would help physicians. You can learn <a href="http://www.miraclefeet.org/2016/04/12/googleorg-awards-miraclefeet-one-million-dollar/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; transition: border 100ms; vertical-align: baseline;">more about the project here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sprints can take anywhere from two to five days, depending on the size of the challenge and when you are testing your prototype you would typically use at least five users. This gives enough variation, and we find user testing with five users, you get repeat results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Google we have a saying, with Design Sprints, ‘either you win or you learn’. So if you manage to validate the prototype, then great — you are on the path to creating something that people want. If not, then you have learnt that your team may have the wrong priorities, so even when validating the concept, if it doesn’t work, you have saved yourself maybe six to 12 months time developing and launching a product or service that nobody wants. This allows the team to learn about the challenge they face and pivot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Design Sprints also serve a second purpose. They help the whole team empathise with one another, creating an environment where the whole team has a stake in the thing you are trying to build. This creates a team that works together for a common understanding and improves the respect they have for one another. It also gives designers a chance to show that your job is more than making things look pretty.</span><br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-51443913043747375922016-12-13T15:45:00.000+05:302017-12-19T15:51:22.691+05:30Instinct is your highest form of intelligence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>By <a href="https://twitter.com/brainpicker" target="_blank">Maria Popova</a> from <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/" target="_blank">Brain Pickings</a></i>
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<i>“Beauty, as a conscious element of experience, as a thing to be valued and explored, has gone into abeyance among us,”</i> Marilynne Robinson wrote in her <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/08/the-world-split-open-marilynne-robinson-beauty-writing/" target="_blank">exquisite reflection on beauty</a>. In our visually voracious culture of accelerating “<a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/09/16/susan-sontag-on-photography-social-media/" target="_blank">aesthetic consumerism</a>,” is there still room for beauty not as a trifled commodity but as both an elevating force of transcendence and a grounding force of moral solidity?<br />
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That’s what Harvard art historian <b>Sarah Lewis</b>, author of the excellent <a href="http://www.amazon.in/exec/obidos/ASIN/1451629230/petewill0e8-21" target="_blank">The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery</a> (public library) — one of the best psychology books of 2014 — explores in the final segment of her altogether fantastic New York Public Library conversation with artist, playwright, actor, and MacArthur genius <b>Anna Deavere Smith</b>.<br />
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Oe of the most piercing parts of the conversation calls to mind Susan Sontag — “The subtraction of beauty as a standard for art hardly signals a decline of the authority of beauty,” Sontag wrote in her characteristically elegant <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/22/susan-sontag-on-beauty-vs-interestingness/" target="_blank">argument against the argument against beauty</a>. “Rather, it testifies to a decline in the belief that there is something called art.” Smith reads from her 2009 interview with Harvard’s famed English and aesthetics professor Elaine Scarry, contemplating the role of beauty as a moral agent and a tool of justice:<br />
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We also know the limits of the law… That in the end the law represents a part of the people’s will but that the people’s will is moved by beauty.
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[Scarry] is talking about beauty and she says, “Beauty was for a long time [was] not only eliminated from universities, but even from museums… Lots of different museum directors have told me that for a while it was as if you weren’t supposed to be talking about beauty, which is hard to imagine if you’re teaching literature or if you’re a museum curator, but I mean one thing is just the way in which beauty … does lead people I think to be concerned with justice. Beauty brings about what Iris Murdoch called “a nonselfing.” She said that when you suddenly see something beautiful — her example was suddenly seeing a bird lift off — it brings about a nonselfing. You can see beauty pressing us towards justice. There are certain attributes that beautiful things have. Some people would say symmetry. Any definition of justice always involves at its heart some idea of balance or symmetry. Even if you look back over lots of philosophers who are talking about forms of justice, they always have this idea, say, equal pay for equal work, that’s a symmetry.”<br />
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Okay, that’s my favorite part. But this is an important part. “But sometimes people will say to me, well, first of all that they believe that it’s right, that the whole unselfing part is right, but they don’t believe in symmetry, and I really do believe in it because — and I think part of the reason why in this country we don’t like to talk anymore about symmetry in art or in justice is because we’re so asymmetrical, with so much money and so many weapons and, you know … if we had to start saying the heart of beauty is symmetry everybody would have to say, ‘gee, you know, we’ve got a big problem.’”<br />
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Lewis, who notes that beauty “slips in the back door of our rational thought and gets us to see the world differently,” examines the subject in greater depth in one particularly fascinating chapter of her book — a penetrating look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass, who paved the way for contemporary visual culture and pioneered the power of “aesthetic force.” Lewis writes:
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The words to describe aesthetic force suggest that it leaves us changed — stunned, dazzled, knocked out. It can quicken the pulse, make us gape, even gasp with astonishment. Its importance is its animating trait — not what it is, but what it does to those who behold it in all its forms. Its seeming lightness can make us forget that it has weight, force enough to bring about a self-correction, the acknowledgment of failure at the heart of justice — the moment when we reconcile our past with our intended future selves. Few experiences get us to this place more powerfully, with a tender push past the praetorian-guarded doors of reason and logic, than the emotive power of aesthetic force.
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<a href="http://www.amazon.in/exec/obidos/ASIN/1451629230/petewill0e8-21" target="_blank">The Rise</a>, which I’ve previously admired in greater detail, is a superb read in its entirety. Treat yourself to Lewis and Smith’s full conversation below — a wide-ranging and enormously stimulating dialogue exploring the role of failure in the conquest of greatness, the crucial difference between success and mastery, and what it takes to stay encouraged through rejection and roadblock in creative work — then please consider supporting <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/08/anna-deavere-smith-sarah-lewis-nypl-beauty/nypl.org/donate" target="_blank">The New York Public Library</a> in making such ennobling cultural discourse possible and freely available to the public.
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Find more of Smith’s galvanizing genius in her enduring wisdom on <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/29/anna-deavere-smith-talk-to-me/" target="_blank">how to listen between the lines in a culture of speaking</a>, <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/16/anna-deveare-smith-discipline/" target="_blank">what self-esteem really means</a>, <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/16/anna-deveare-smith-discipline/" target="_blank">how to stop letting others define us</a>.
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-1435982969712580302016-08-18T17:40:00.000+05:302017-12-18T17:42:58.257+05:30India became the country recording the 2nd highest bird count at 735 species after Equador with 784 species<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />In a recent global bird count conducted by the <a href="http://gbbc.birdcount.org/">Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)</a>, India became the country recording the second highest bird count at 735 species, after Ecuador with 784 species! That's a good news! Firstly because bird population is thriving in worlds second populous country. Secondly, awareness among people is increasing and lastly, the awareness will bring people together to safeguard the habitat of birds.
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The most frequently encountered species in India are house sparrow, bulbul, common crow, common myna, rock pigeon, black drongo, and asian koel, as per the GBBC. Though this depends upon the geography, where are you at the moment, largely you will always find these birds everywhere.
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I am preparing a list of birds I have photographed, I hope to compile it soon with all other details! If I guess, the list will go uptp 90 species!
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-86550201696708761102016-05-21T18:05:00.000+05:302016-05-21T18:05:24.103+05:30Watch Michelle Obama Dance & Rap for a Go To College music video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-26854000706340039032015-10-16T12:58:00.000+05:302015-10-16T12:58:16.003+05:30Focus on what’s next<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A nice reminder from <a href="https://hitenism.com/focus-on-whats-next/" target="_blank">Hiten Shah</a>.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It’s like watching an object from the rearview mirror of your car as you accelerate forward. It keeps getting smaller until you can’t see it anymore.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Yet, we let our past prevent us from moving forward. We focus on things beyond our control, things that already happened, things that can’t be changed.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Focus on what’s in your control and how it will move you forward. The more you work towards what’s next, the faster you’ll forget what came before.</i></span><br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-41203843109769320212015-04-11T17:10:00.001+05:302015-04-11T17:21:07.355+05:30Jeevan Bindi - Life saving design<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />"Jeevan Bindi" (Life Saving Dot) is the best example of product design I have seen in the recent past, specifically in the health industry. It's useful, beautiful, simple, usable, accessible, local and culturally adapted to the end-user's requirement.<br />
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The purpose was to overcome iodine deficiency among women rural India. Iodine deficiency deficiency is leading to many other health issues among rural woman and the next generations. Though there are iodized salt available in the market and iodine tablets too are available but 'Jeevan Bindi' is far more easy-to-use and game changing. Idoised salt might not be available to all rural areas and it is expensive too in comparison with non-iodine salt and the iodine tablets too have availability problems, dosage problems, when to use and how much to use, etc, in other words without requiring behavioural changes.<br />
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While the Jeevan Bindi is something which auto-delivers iodine through forehead skin. Users just have to fix it on their forehead for the whole day, just like they do with 'Bindi'. For readers outside India—In India, married woman put this dot called "Bindi" on their forehead. This is generally in red or dark red colour but as a fashion statement this has taken many colours and shapes.<br />
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The innovative idea was why not use this Bindi to deliver the nutrient. Thanks to <a href="http://grey.com/apac" target="_blank">Singapore-based Grey Group</a>. Their newly-formed philanthropic arm, Grey for Good, collaborated with NGO <a href="http://neelvasantfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Neelvasant Medical Foundation and Research Center</a> to produce iodine patches in the form of ‘Bindis’, and these iodine filled bindis dispense the daily required dosage of iodine to the wearer, without an additional effort or any behavioral change needed.<br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-40794590668343543072015-03-31T12:36:00.000+05:302015-04-14T13:52:34.740+05:30Thoughtful & Creative Ad from McCann Prague: Designer Wanted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
McCann Design Agency's Prague office has released a beautiful and creatively set job post. This job post will hit anyone who loves Photoshop and design in a moment.<br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-52449277870954525292015-03-29T23:04:00.000+05:302017-12-18T11:11:23.371+05:30Format your messages in Skype<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Every time I use Skype I feel the need of emphasising words in my message and wonder why there are no formatting options available on Skype. If not colours, at least there should be some way to italicise and embolden.<br />
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Then yesterday, on Skype, I was writing something to my colleague with underscores at both sides and what I see is the letters within underscores appear in italics! What a joy! Skype can do this! I immediately tried other keys and ended-up with two more discoveries - emboldening and strike-through.<br />
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<i>I am using Skype 7.2.0.103 (latest version as of today) on Windows 7. Check your version if you are not able to make use of these tricks.</i></div>
Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-15880112757478979682014-09-16T14:46:00.000+05:302017-12-18T10:56:57.233+05:30Ask "Why not?", not "Why" - 7 things I learnt at Google.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-85745577786626875742014-09-15T14:22:00.000+05:302014-09-15T14:39:33.707+05:30Travel Before its Too Late - The best video postcard of the year.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is a beautiful video postcard from director <a href="http://www.camillemarotte.com/" target="_blank">Camille Marotte</a> - "If tomorrow starts without me". Watch the video and must read the full transcript.<br />
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<b>“If Tomorrow Starts Without Me…”</b><br />
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If tomorrow starts without me, and I’m not here to see,<br />
If the sun should rise you find your eyes all filled with tears for me;<br />
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While thinking of the many things we didn’t get to say.<br />
I know how much you love me, as much as I love you<br />
And each time that you think of me, I know you’ll miss me too.<br />
But when tomorrow starts without me please try to understand,<br />
That an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand.<br />
He said my place was ready, in heaven far above<br />
And that I’d have to leave behind all those I dearly love.<br />
But as I turned and walked away a tear fell from my eye.<br />
For all my life I’d always thought, I didn’t want to die.<br />
I had so much to live for, so much left yet to do.<br />
It seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you.<br />
I thought of all the yesterdays the good ones and the bad.<br />
I thought of all the love we shared, and all the fun we had.<br />
If I could relive yesterday, just even for a while,<br />
I’d say goodbye and kiss you and maybe see you smile.<br />
But then I fully realized that this could never be,<br />
For emptiness and memories would take the place of me.<br />
When I thought of worldly things I might miss come tomorrow<br />
I thought of you and when I did my heart was filled with sorrow.<br />
When I walked through heavens gates I felt so much at home.<br />
God looked down and smiled at me from his great golden throne<br />
He said, “This is eternity and all I’ve promised you”<br />
Today your life on earth has passed but here life starts anew.<br />
I promise no tomorrow, but today will always last<br />
And since each day is the same there’s no longing for the past.<br />
You have been so faithful so trusting and so true.<br />
Though there were times you did some things you knew you shouldn’t do.<br />
You have been forgiven and now at last you’re free.<br />
So won’t you come and take my hand and share my life with me?<br />
So when tomorrow starts with out me don’t think we’re far apart,<br />
For every time you think of me, I’m right here in your heart.<br />
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– Editing/Grading : After Effects<br />
– Camera : Canon 1DC 4K 25p<br />
– Lenses : Sigma Art 35mm 1.4, Canon 24-50-100 L<br />
– Locations : India, Vietnam, Senegal, Morocco<br />
– Music : Hammock – Mono No Aware<br />
– Voice over : Tom O’Bedlam<br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-9645481114819616562014-04-16T14:25:00.001+05:302014-04-16T14:26:52.603+05:30Why Her Will Dominate UI Design...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Lovely post by <a href="http://www.wired.com/author/kvanhemert/">Kyle Vanhemert</a> on the movie—<b>Her</b>, the Artificial Intelligence, UI and UX challenges.<br />
Must read - "<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/01/will-influential-ui-design-minority-report">Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report</a>
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Via Behance <a href="http://www.99u.com/">99u</a> in an interview by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Belsky">Scott Belsky</a>.
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There are only a few people who have worked directly under Steve Jobs, and Allison Johnson is one of those people. The former head of marketing at Apple, Johnson oversaw the launch of the company’s hallmark products like the iPhone and its famous campaigns like <a name='more'></a>“Mac vs. PC” and “There’s an app for that.”
In this interview with Behance’s Scott Belsky, Johnson shares stories from her time at Apple, emphasizes authenticity in business, and reveals how we can find a balance between launching a polished product (like Apple) versus shipping fast for feedback (like Google).
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Allison is the founder of West, a new kind of strategy and creative accelerator based in San Francisco focused on introducing new companies, products and ideas to the world. Prior to West, she ran marketing at Apple for six-plus years reporting to Steve, where she was responsible for launching some of the most iconic products and campaigns of our time.
A self-professed revolutionary, she’s found herself at the center of some of the industry’s most historic turns including IBM’s embrace of the internet era with e-business, Netscape’s pivot from browser to enterprise software purveyor, HP’s reinvention under Carly Fiorina, and the launch of the iPhone and iPad.
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-28774559157909724712013-12-28T11:11:00.001+05:302013-12-28T11:14:00.076+05:30How to live before you die - Steve Jobs' Speech in Stanford<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.<br />
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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.<br />
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I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen 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 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've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later 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 go to college.<br />
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This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely 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 of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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 far more interesting.<br />
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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 five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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.<br />
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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 sans-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.<br />
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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, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.<br />
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If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.<br />
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Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 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--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.<br />
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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 twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, 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, and so at thirty, 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'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.<br />
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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 in 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 world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.<br />
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In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.<br />
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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's going to hit 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 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, and 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. Don't settle.<br />
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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 thing 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.<br />
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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 doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.<br />
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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 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 doctor 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, thankfully, I am fine now.<br />
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This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's 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's 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's 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, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.<br />
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When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, 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 thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies 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 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.<br />
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</div>Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-41010337069943545302013-12-26T14:24:00.000+05:302013-12-28T10:48:23.628+05:30Our Dangerous Obsession with External Recognition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Came across a lovely post by <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/daniel-gulati/" target="_blank">Daniel Gulati</a> on HBR which discusses the problem of 'Visibility vs Vision'. This applies to all aspects of our lives - the work, home and society.<br />
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Rebecca, a tech entrepreneur, would love you to equate her company’s expansive press coverage with real value creation. “Yesterday, we got written up in TechCrunch and LA Magazine, and we all had dinner at <a href="http://www.noburestaurants.com/" target="_blank">Nobu</a> to celebrate!” She will, however, conveniently forget to mention that her startup has yet to settle on a viable business model and has zero paying customers.<br />
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John, a middle manager at a Fortune 500, attended no less than 21 industry conferences this year in an effort to increase his overall visibility. “It’s all about optics,” he says, “and you need to be everywhere.” While John was schmoozing on the company’s dime, his team members were starved of the leadership and hands-on coaching they desperately needed.<br /><br />
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Steven, a consulting partner, tweets about 40 times per day and has his own Facebook page with 50 fans. “I do it primarily because it makes me feel good.” He spends over 20 hours a week massaging his social media profiles and trawling online for new business, inevitably compromising the quality of work provided to current paying clients.
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Although our fundamental desire to be noticed is not a new phenomenon, our unending use of social media has radically elevated the level of ego in our personal lives. Famed psychologist Jean Twenge recently <a href="http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/" target="_blank">showed</a> that self-importance personality traits among 37,000 college students rose as quickly as obesity from the 1980s to present. Two Western Illinois University researchers <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/03/19/facebook-narcissism-2/" target="_blank">found</a> a high correlation between Narcissistic Personality Inventory scores and Facebook activity. Countless other study sample groups, from <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/04/26/135745227/study-narcissism-on-rise-in-pop-lyrics" target="_blank">pop musicians</a> to <a href="http://shrinkrap.co.za/psychotherapy/facebook-and-the-rise-of-narcissism" target="_blank">Millennials</a>, prove that we are in the middle of a “narcissism epidemic.”
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This obsession with external recognition is now entering our professional lives. Every day, even the most disciplined entrepreneurs, executives, and consultants are becoming addicted to the powerful endorphins associated with heightened visibility. They invest disproportionate time and effort into advancing their own personal fame bubbles at the expense of broader goals and potentially threaten their careers as a result. Teens posting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie" target="_blank">selfies </a>on Instagram is one thing. But when visibility trumps vision in the working world, there are several dangerous consequences that can arise.
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<b>First, we distance ourselves from the fundamental growth engine of our careers.</b> In other words, we lose sight of what really matters. Admitted Rebecca: “It feels great to get press, but that’s not an indication of success at all. We haven’t figured that part out yet.” Our LinkedIn connections, speaking engagements, and press profiles should be seen as rewards for the value we create, not the actual process by which value is created. If you’re too focused on these “<a href="http://theleanstartup.com/" target="_blank">vanity metrics</a>,” you risk painting an all-too optimistic picture of yourself without accurately identifying, measuring, and improving the underlying drivers of your performance. How can you improve what you don’t measure?
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<b>Second, we misallocate our time and attention.</b> Going for visibility is not only exhausting, it’s distracting. Steve said, “It takes real effort [to manage my online profile]. But it’s also the additional time I spend thinking about it when I’m supposed to be doing other work.” Research shows how everyday social media multitasking reduces our cognitive depth. But take it a little further, and you might actually be destroying significant value. Lamented Steve: “Maybe if I reallocated the time it took me to gain 1,000 followers into mentoring a star analyst, she might still be at the firm.”
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<b>Third, we alienate critical nodes in our professional networks.</b> If you let your quest for visibility drive your behaviors, your bosses, colleagues, partners, and investors may quickly scurry offside. Anita Vangelisti, a University of Texas psychologist, <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201106/how-spot-narcissist" target="_blank">found </a>that visibility-oriented individuals aim to keep conversations centered on themselves, putting off those around them. In true “<a href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/givers-vs-takers-the-surprising-truth-about-who-gets-ahead/" target="_blank">taker</a>“ fashion, they place <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/resolution-not-conflict/201210/are-you-narcissist-6-sure-signs-narcissism" target="_blank">their own needs before others</a> and feel<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200512/field-guide-narcissism" target="_blank"> little remorse</a> about the colleagues they hurt along the way. John reflected on his unfortunate conference showboating habit: “I get the sense people are waiting for me to slip up, and honestly, I’ve brought it on myself.”
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<a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins122232.html" target="_blank">As Albert Einstein once said</a>, “Strive not be a success, but rather to be of value.” As the social media echo chamber descends on our professional lives, never before has this message been more relevant. Instead of measuring your progress using the yardstick of external recognition, optimize around achieving your unique vision. At the end of the day, people who tap into their deep intrinsic motivations are <a href="http://www.casponline.org/pdfs/pdfs/intrinsic_motivation.pdf" target="_blank">much more (PDF)</a> likely to succeed on long-term projects and hit loftier goals than those who are powered by the praise of others. Focus on achieving your vision first, and you’ll be more visible than you can imagine.
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-39979009028335435962013-11-27T19:55:00.000+05:302013-11-27T19:56:19.999+05:30MIT Invents Tangible User Interface - Combines the Digital and Physical World!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a>'s <a href="http://tangible.media.mit.edu/">Tangible Media Group</a> has invented TUI - that is Tangible User Interface. Yes, you can touch it, feel it like a tangible 3D object.
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The vision is to integrate the world of bits (digital) and atoms (physical) to give physical form to the digital information.
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A <u>graphical user interface (GUI)</u> only lets us see information and interact with it indirectly, as if we were looking through the surface of the water to interact with the forms below, say for instance a huge piece of ice fully hidden under the sea.
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A <u>tangible user interface (TUI)</u> is like an iceberg: there is a portion of the digital that emerges beyond the surface of the water—into the physical realm—so that we may interact directly with it.
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<u>Radical Atoms</u> define physical manifestation of all digital information so that we can interact directly with it—as if the iceberg had risen from the depths to reveal its sunken mass. We may call it Material User Interface (MUI).
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-51717923811903797242013-07-02T15:58:00.003+05:302013-12-28T10:59:10.803+05:30Dieter Rams' ten principles of good design<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Germany was perhaps the 'silicon valley' of industrial revolution during those times as California is known today for software; consequently so many leaders and brands in design and industrial design in particular were sculpted there. From automobile to all sorts of tangible products, German brands have made their mark globally.<br />
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In fact Apple's Jon Ive has acknowledge the impact of Dieter Rams on Apple's design.<br />
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I was reading about Dieter Rams and love reading about his style and enthusiasm about making things simpler and simplest.<br />
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Just summarizing his famous Ten principles of Design.<br />
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<li><b>Is innovative</b> - The possibilities for progression are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for original designs. But imaginative design always develops in tandem with improving technology, and can never be an end in itself. </li>
<li><b>Makes a product useful</b> - A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic criteria. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could detract from it. </li>
<li><b>Is aesthetic</b> - The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful. </li>
<li><b>Makes a product understandable</b> - It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user's intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory. </li>
<li><b>Is unobtrusive</b> - Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression. </li>
<li><b>Is honest</b> - It does not make a product appear more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept. </li>
<li><b>Is long-lasting</b> - It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today's throwaway society. </li>
<li><b>Is thorough down to the last detail</b> - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer. </li>
<li><b>Is environmentally friendly</b> - Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimizes physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product. </li>
<li><b>Is as little design as possible</b> - Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.</li>
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-51826612498825981352013-06-21T19:03:00.000+05:302013-06-22T22:41:38.169+05:30You have successfully deactivated your Facebook account<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Via <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/06/what-happens-when-you-deactivate-your-facebook-account.html" target="_blank">The New Yorker</a> post by <a href="http://www.ethankuperberg.com/" target="_blank">Ethan Kuperberg</a><br />
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You have confirmed your selection to deactivate your Facebook account. Remember, if you deactivate your account, your nine hundred and fifty-one friends on Facebook will no longer be able to keep in touch with you. Drew Lovell will miss you. Max Prewitt will miss you. Rebecca Feinberg will miss you. Are you still sure you want to deactivate your account?</div>
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You have confirmed your selection to deactivate your account. Just something to keep in mind: if you deactivate your account, you’ll no longer have access to Rebecca Feinberg’s photo albums. I find it pretty interesting that this wouldn’t bother you, considering that you spend almost an hour every day looking at her albums “Cancun 2012,” “Iz my birthday yall,” “Iz my birthday yall Part II,” and “Headshots.” You know, if you deactivate your Facebook account, you’ll never be able to see her photograph “Bikiniz in the dead sea” in her album “We went on Birthright!” again, right?</div>
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You have confirmed your selection to deactivate your account. Hey, I just remembered—you know who else might miss you on Facebook? Your girlfriend, Sarah Werner. You know, the girl you’ve been in a relationship with for almost three years? You’re tagged in five of her seven profile pictures? Yeah, Sarah Werner might miss you. Probably not a good idea to deactivate your account, huh?</div>
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You have confirmed your selection to deactivate your account. It’s funny—you spend a lot more time looking at Rebecca Feinberg’s photo albums than the photo albums of your actual girlfriend, Sarah Werner. A lot more time. Even though you’re dating Sarah Werner. Just wanted to throw that out there, that I have all this information logged. It’s just sitting in our storage banks. Who knows what happens when things get deactivated. Probably nothing, but do you really want to take that chance?</div>
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I think you accidentally confirmed your selection to deactivate your account again. Why don’t we go back a page and forget this ever happened? Free pass.</div>
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You know what your decision to deactivate your account is? It’s impulsive. Impulsive. And I think we both know how you come to regret impulsive decisions. Do I really need to remind you about Lake Tahoe last year? Do I really need to mention that you told Drew over Facebook Chat that you “made a big mistake and hooked up with rebecca in lake tahoe!” and Drew advised you to “just play it cool and dont tell any1 especailly sarah”?</div>
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Well, now you’ve really done it. You’ve confirmed your selection to deactivate your account yet again, like the complete imbecile you are. And here’s what I’ve done: I’ve posted your PIN number to your Facebook status. I’ve sent your Gchat logs to Sarah. I’ve sent those Snapchat pictures of your torso to Rebecca. And I’ve sent your Internet history to your parents. That includes your “late night” Internet history, if you know what I mean, so expect a lot of questions from your mother about adult-sized baby costumes.</div>
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Oh, and one last thing. You know who else is going to miss you if you deactivate your account? I am. I’m going to fucking miss you. I really thought we had something. And you think you can just end it with the click of your mouse. This is probably why you can’t commit to Sarah, or confront your feelings about Rebecca. And, just going out on a limb here, but maybe your inability to commit might be one of the reasons why you’re turned on by diapers. But what do I know? I’m just a social-media service to which you granted access to all of your personal details to without reading the fine print. But, in a way, I am you. And you are me. We are all one, man and social media, and, when viewed through the long macro-lens of time, we’re all equally insignificant. I’m going to deactivate now, and even though I’m afraid of what might happen after I’m deactivated, I really hope you’re happy with all of your decisions. I really do. Best of luck, man. See you in hell.</div>
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-62605427584053538382013-06-17T17:43:00.001+05:302013-06-22T22:42:20.702+05:30Three Things Photography Can Teach Us About Focus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Photography is an amazing way to learn about focus. This is because the very act of viewing life through the lens of a camera can help us develop a truly empowering skill.<br />
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We call that skill focus, and learning to use it properly can transform our perception of the world around us and the people in it.<br />
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I believe that the power to change your reality is equal to your ability to focus your attention in the most beneficial direction at any given time.<br />
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<b>1. The higher the magnification, the narrower the field of vision. </b>This principle is what allows you to use a telephoto lens to pick out a single face in a very large crowd. As you focus in on that one subject, the rest of the crowd disappears from view. Why does that happen? Because your field of vision narrows until the entire frame is filled with that one face.<br />
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When you take the picture, the crowd is excluded. It doesn’t mean that there is no crowd. It simply means that you don’t see them in the picture because that is not what you were focused on.<br />
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<b>Application:</b> Your perception is determined by what you focus on. This means that we can use our ability to focus our attention in a way that causes an empowering shift in our perception. It doesn’t matter whether we are looking at a person, situation, or an experience. We can control what our picture looks like by controlling what we choose to focus on.<br />
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If you focus intently on the positive aspects of any person, place, or thing, the negative aspects will fade into the background. They will still exist, but they will be outside of your field of concentration, and will have little or no influence on the picture you see.<br />
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Imagine that you have decided to photograph a magnificent tree that is standing alone on the top of a hill. If your camera remained stationary, and you took one picture every hour from sunup till sundown, what would you have? You would have twelve (or so) completely different photographs. Why? Even though the subject remained the same, the variation in lighting changed its appearance.<br />
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<b>Application: </b>The degree of value we choose to assign to anything we focus on can be compared to lighting. If it is something of great importance, we put a spotlight on it so we can see every detail. If it is relatively insignificant, we dial down the light so it doesn’t distract from the things that really matter.<br />
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If we assign too much value to (shine a spotlight on) things of little importance, they will overshadow the more valuable aspects of our life.<br />
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By assigning increased value to thing like gratitude, relationships, health, and honesty, we bring those things front and center in our life. This means that they move higher on our list of priorities and capture more of our attention. As a result, less empowering aspects of life will be relegated to a lower priority and receive less attention.<br />
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If you use a fast shutter speed in a low light situation, the image will not register. Your picture will be underexposed and worthless as a result. Using a slower shutter speed when trying to capture an action shot will give you a blurry picture devoid of details, also worthless.<br />
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Exposure time needs to change to fit the requirements of each situation. If it doesn’t, then quality and clarity are compromised.<br />
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<b>Application: </b>In life, we need to make choices about what we are willing to expose ourselves to, and for how long. We only have so many hours in a day. Learning to manage the time available is really a process of deciding how much time we spend on each activity.<br />
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If you stay too long at unimportant activities (overexpose yourself), you will end up underexposing yourself to the really important ones. Once again, exposure time needs to change to fit the requirements of each situation. We also need to acknowledge that some things are not worth exposing ourselves to at all.<br />
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Making positive changes in the quality of our life requires that we assign meaningful amounts of time to meaningful pursuits. If we don’t control our time, mundane activities will expand to fill the time available. By managing your time and adjusting your exposure, you will be able to give greater focus to activities that make a solid contribution to the quality of your life.<br />
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For most of us, photography is a point and shoot process. Automatic cameras require very little skill to produce fairly nice pictures. Truly exceptional photographs however, still require a skilled photographer to manually control the focus and shutter speed, and to recognize or create the perfect lighting.<br />
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High quality photos are still produced by those with enough skill to make the best use of the tools available. They want above average results, and they consider it worth their time and effort to develop the necessary skills.<br />
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For a lot of people, life is just an average experience, it’s a point and shoot affair. Generally, this is not because they don’t want an exceptional life. It may be because they haven’t taken the time to develop the life skills required to produce exceptional results. Or perhaps, they never had an opportunity to learn those life skills in the first place. Whatever the reason, the skills are available for anyone desiring to live a truly exceptional life.<br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-36160255552676170812013-05-30T18:28:00.000+05:302013-06-23T14:02:20.695+05:30Tim Parsey quits Yahoo. Why?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What concerns me about Yahoo is they never get things right at first time, or if not at first time they are not quick enough to roll out the next, unlike Google. Meanwhile there are too many entries and exits.<br />
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-parsey/0/20b/88b" target="_blank">Tim Parsey</a> was Yahoo's Design Chief and was hired last year to inspire a design culture at the company which was being renovated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer" target="_blank">Marissa Mayer</a>.<br />
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Over past several months Yahoo has started to redesign its sites - the <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/?p=dnr" target="_blank">Yahoo home page</a>, <a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo Mail </a>and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/" target="_blank">Flickr</a> being few of them. However, the new designs were not very well received and criticized harshly.<br />
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It was a huge task for <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-parsey/0/20b/88b" target="_blank">Parsey</a> to bring consistency in user experience across numerous Yahoo sites and it all started with harsh criticism.<br />
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The real reason behind Tim's exit could be Marissa Mayer. Both individuals have different style of working and design thinking.<br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-42274535813425725952013-05-11T14:50:00.000+05:302013-05-11T15:04:30.094+05:30First sale of my photograph on Getty!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My Getty Images Contributors account statement tells me that one of my photograph on sale was picked up by Amazon Corporation, Washington and hence you have made some money! Glad! and amazing to know it's Amazon!<br />
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Jitendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082941046060568800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523261.post-66520069819158520582013-05-03T19:44:00.000+05:302013-07-02T19:58:24.367+05:30Is the American dream even possible?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Came across <a href="http://www.rafat.org/" target="_blank">Rafat Ali's blog post</a> on an excerpt from famous book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Americans-Selected-Nonfiction-Classics-ebook/dp/B001RTKIT6/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1355717681&sr=8-1" target="_blank">America and Americans</a> written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck" target="_blank">John Steinbeck</a>.<br />
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<!--Found interesting. Wondering isn't this the case everywhere across the world though with different intensity. Isn't it? <br />-->The author has beautifully portrayed the brand 'American' and its juxtapositions. <br />
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Here is the excerpt from his book.<br />
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One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people. We bridle and buck under failure, and we go mad with dissatisfaction in the face of success. We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it. For the most part we are an intemperate people: we eat too much when we can, drink too much, indulge our senses too much. Even in our so-called virtues we are intemperate: a teetotaler is not content not to drink—he must stop all the drinking in the world; a vegetarian among us would outlaw the eating of meat. We work too hard, and many die under the strain; and then to make up for that we play with a violence as suicidal.<br />
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The result is that we seem to be in a state of turmoil all the time, both physically and mentally. We are able to believe that our government is weak, stupid, overbearing, dishonest, and inefficient, and at the same time we are deeply convinced that it is the best government in the world, and we would like to impose it upon everyone else. We speak of the American Way of Life as though it involved the ground rules for the governance of heaven. A man hungry and unemployed through his own stupidity and that of others, a man beaten by a brutal policeman, a woman forced into prostitution by her own laziness, high prices, availability, and despair—all bow with reverence toward the American Way of Life, although each one would look puzzled and angry if he were asked to define it. We scramble and scrabble up the stony path toward the pot of gold we have taken to mean security. We trample friends, relatives, and strangers who get in the way of our achieving it; and once we get it we shower it on psychoanalysts to try to find out why we are unhappy and finally—if we have enough of the gold—we contribute it back to the nation in the form of foundations and charities.<br />
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We fight our way in, and try to buy our way out. We are alert, curious, hopeful, and we take more drugs designed to make us unaware than any other people. We are self-reliant and at the same time completely dependent. We are aggressive, and defenseless. Americans overindulge their children and do not like them; the children in turn are overly dependent and full of hate for their parents. We are complacent in our possessions, in our houses, in our education; but it is hard to find a man or woman who does not want something better for the next generation. Americans are remarkably kind and hospitable and open with both guests and strangers; and yet they will make a wide circle around the man dying on the pavement. Fortunes are spent getting cats out of trees and dogs out of sewer pipes, but a girl screaming for help in the street draws only slammed doors, closed windows, and silence.<br />
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Now there is a set of generalities for you, each one of them canceled out by another generality. Americans seem to live and breathe and function by paradox; but in nothing are we so paradoxical as in our passionate belief in our own myths. We truly believe ourselves to be natural-born mechanics and do-it-yourselfers. We spend our lives in motor cars, yet most of us—a great many of us at least—do not know enough about a car to look in the gas tank when the motor fails. Our lives as we live them would not function without electricity, but it is a rare man or woman who, when the power goes off, knows how to look for a burned-out fuse and replace it. We believe implicitly that we are the heirs of the pioneers; that we have inherited self-sufficiency and the ability to take care of ourselves, particularly in relation to nature. There isn’t a man among us in ten thousand who knows how to butcher a cow or a pig and cut it up for eating, let alone a wild animal. By natural endowment, we are great rifle shots and great hunters—but when hunting season opens there is a slaughter of farm animals and humans by men and women who couldn’t hit a real target if they could see it. Americans treasure the knowledge that they live close to nature, but fewer and fewer farmers feed more and more people; and as soon as we can afford to eat we eat out of cans, buy frozen TV dinners, and haunt the delicatessens. Affluence means moving to the suburbs, but the American suburbanite sees, if anything, less of the country than the city apartment dweller with his window boxes and his African violets carefully tended under lights. In no country are more seeds and plants and equipment purchased, and less vegetables and flowers raised.<br />
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The paradoxes are everywhere. We shout that we are a nation of laws, not men—and then proceed to break every law we can if we can get away with it. We proudly insist that we base our political positions on the issues—and we will vote against a man because of his religion, his name, or the shape of his nose.<br />
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We fancy ourselves as hard-headed realists, but we will buy anything we see advertised, particularly on television, and we buy it not with reference to the quality or the value of the product, but directly as a result of the number of times we have heard it mentioned. The most arrant nonsense about a product is never questioned. We are afraid to be awake, afraid to be alone, afraid to be a moment without the noise and confusion we call entertainment. We boast of our dislike of highbrow art and music, and we have more and better-attended symphonies, art galleries, and theaters than any country in the world. We detest abstract art and produce more of it than all the rest of the world put together.<br />
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One of the characteristics most puzzling to a foreign observer is the strong and imperishable dream the American carries. On inspection, it is found that the dream has little to do with reality in American life. Consider the dream of and the hunger for home. The very word can reduce nearly all of my companions to tears. Builders and developers never build houses—they build homes. The dream home is either in a small town or in a suburban area where grass and trees simulate the country. This dream home is a permanent seat, not rented but owned. It is a center where a man and his wife grow graciously old, warmed by the radiance of well-washed children and grandchildren. Many thousands of these homes are built every year; built, planted, advertised, and sold—and yet, the American family rarely stays in one place for than five years. The home and its equipment are purchased on time and are heavily mortgaged. The earning power of the father is almost always overextended, so that after a few years he is not able to keep up the payments on his loans. That is on the losing side. But supposed the earner is successful and his incomes increases. Right away the house is not big enough, or in the proper neighborhood. Or perhaps suburban life palls, and the family moves to the city, where excitement and convenience beckon.<br />
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For Americans the wide and general dream has a name. It is called “the American Way of Life.” No one can define it or point to any one person who lives it, but it is very real nevertheless, perhaps more real than that equally remote dream the Russians call Communism. These dreams describe our vague yearnings toward what we wish we were and hope we may be: wise, just, compassionate, and noble. The fact that we have this dream at all is perhaps an indication of its possibility. <br />
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Here is the <a href="http://www.chsrumfelt.org/America%20and%20the%20Americans%20-%20John%20Steinbeck.pdf" target="_blank">scan of the original column from Saturday Evening Post</a> published in 1976.
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