Apple – Tech Crunch HAHA Funny

What will not happen in the Apple iPod event on 09 09 09.

“Steve Jobs will not land in the Yerba Buena Center in a large silver spacecraft and take three chosen humans on board, all women, who will join him as they float serenely in space repopulating the universe with Jobsian clones grown in utero during balletic space orgies and then sent hurtling through space in tiny pods shaped like the Mighty Mouse.”

Full article here: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/08/what-to-expect-from-tomorrows-apple-event/

Why

The Why Post:

: Company / Concepts

:: doesn’t youtube have a repeat button. Probably then the playlists together with the repeat button would not want people to even open the youtube tab?

:: doesn’t twitter have comments like the “Late Jaiku”. The @ is a mess I think.

: People / Philosophy

:: do people love to flirt about their love publicly? ,

:: does Swedish management philosophy involve “lagom” . If yes, does Jack Welsch’s 20-70-10 principle hold true in the context?

:: does Singapore act as so horrendously weird when it comes to rules and fines

:: doesn’t it this guy go to school and study

:: does this make me feel very proud

:: do we always find negative stupid highly irking comments in most of the blogs, youtube videos

:: do people always search for “hot”, “sex”, “dating”.. online. ALWAYS

:: do we always, more often than not, complain about the country you come from / find interesting things outside

(give me more …)

How are they so good yet so chilled?

I look at the Swedes / Scandinavians and my god they impress me. They are so chilled, have time to be fit, play and party yet find the niche they are so good at. They take more time than an average Asian probably to be tech savvy and be glued to things online, but when they do, they excel at it I think. The programmers are great minds, the business developers think international and they do not have inhibitions in sticking their neck out and trying new things. They have no problem even if it has not been proven too much, and the best thing is there is no age barrier in their minds. There are people who are nearing 50 but still have no problems in trying out something new and starting from the scratch. May be the social / welfare system is turned to the positive side of things for these dudes, but I think its great lifestyle. And more so, they conjure up enough “offline skills” too, from repairing the boats, fishing, learning to build those houses, repairing the clogs in the pipe… they are much more rounded and diverse. So for me, I plan to continue doing things online, but also start spending more time offline and learning new hand skills. Let us see how it goes.

A boss? No, a friend.

When I took a vacation last week around Europe a little bit, there was one thing that really hit me hard. How can I have bosses who wish more for my personal well being than whether I am of “good use” or not? Why am I saying this?

Mr. Boss 1 called to check if I was having a good time more than once during the last 10 days. Second, he gave me his car and also some good advice about why certain things happen certain ways (more spice to those who know it ) and during the whole time never did we talk about work, or the deliverables that were on my plate (which I did manage to finish before leaving although not sure if he was aware of it). And when my CEO actually sent me a message saying, “enjoy your vacation…”, although I never really did a big bonanza with a project or anything before I actually took the vacation, it tells a lot about motivation and leadership. And I wonder how these guys can be who they are, be great personal friends and still be the whipping task masters if they want to. You guys at Result are simply too good to be true. Looking forward to do more cool things as always

Are bloggers entrepreneurs? How about those developers?

Stumbled across an interesting article at trak.in, and the question the writer asks is, “are bloggers entrepreneurs” and toeing the same line as the article, that is including only people who have registered their domains, paid a few dollars per year to get their blog started, do you consider them to be entrepreneurs?  

Lets define something called “life style entrepreneurship” which essentially means you are an entrepreneur by the day, have your own venture, put in a lot of time and effort into it (putting in lot of money is probably not as relevant since through the internet you can essentially start a business with almost no money), and then you have the others, people who create things as a hobby (and that could possibly turn into something serious later) and not worry too much on it, or are not solely dependent on it. So if we follow this taxonomy, bloggers who are serious, spend a lot of time on the design, the CSS, building a network around the blog knowledge etc can be considered entrepreneurs since there is a lot of effort involved, and possibly more money over a period of time. 

In essence, majority of bloggers are not just mainstream / lifestyle entrepreneurs, and hence its not fair to bestow upon them a title of an entrepreneur if they blog . And mind you, the output (here number of readers / traffic / hits) is not necessarily a yardstick to define if you are a life style entrepreneur or not. And just about the same way, how about developers who put in about 100 or so USD to develop those iPhone Apps and things on the SKD? Are they entrepreneurs? And this is again a brain child of new media that fall into the grey area with no exact classification or yardstick to tag!