Thursday, 3 December 2009

I Quit Blogging

I decided to put my blog on the death bed. Surely I haven’t done enough blogging or real quality sharing. From the core of my emotional furnaces (spanning jocund, dismal, and all feelings in between) to the prolific meadows of fecund ideas..Thoughts, insights, intuitions, reflections, novelties keep sprouting incessantly...but why and for what. It is impossible to write all that i want to write or rather I choose to write...Time, this medium and audience are constraints. Somewhere down the curve, i realized the vanity of the blog..Reflections tickle me ...there is none to share..Nor there is one to listen...
In my place, I must talk about payout policies, financial models, counter-intuitive strategies, capital markets, management, cash flows, betas, cases, "ad-nauseam" innovation, and statistics pepertually...ohhhh my god...!!! I cannot leave the discussion for it’s the only point of contact with humanity...
I dislike Orkut, Facebook or anything non-personal...for me they are just...! But i knew how to USE them. But now I see that I am almost close to addiction to these dirty digital indulgences.
I realized that I started talking to my blog instead of soliloquy (bit exaggeration). I could reach a stage where I think everything in terms of blogification. “Should I write this, Can I write this?”. I hate classification, attachment or linearity. I don’t want be "-ified" or "-itioned" by anything. Some nasty smart-alecs may ask a tautological question here, but I don’t care to answer clichés. For me freedom is absolutely necessary. Given emotionally-hard conditions here, I'm susceptible to become habituated: losing freedom and eventually losing the knowledge that I lost my freedom.
I don’t know what to do with this "Golbnu". I even wonder if there are any readers of Golbnu. More philosophically, what If i don’t write...nothing..Nothing will happen, nothing really matters...Moreover, whatever i wrote so far was not even one millionth of what i really think or want to say.

What If I Forget My Life Till Yesterday??

What If I forget my life till yesterday?? Complete “Shift-Delete”. Some off shoot thoughts could be what if we had selective memory deletion option?? Imagine If I delete my past life, what would it bear on my parents, friends and so on..Moreover, our entire job market runs of experience..which is nothing but memory...Nobody really cares for originality or imagination. World runs on memory...if memory is deleted then world is gone..GENES are nature’s fundamental memory units; MEMES are societies’ cultural units...just imagine for a while if these two are deleted what would happen. And “creativity” in its exploitative definition is nothing but synthesis of many diverse ideas..nothing but information(memory)..So I think if creativity can be processed...then it can be even AUTOMATED. If you want to know how, contact me...I have a cogent and holistic argument to assert my thought. Automated Creativity is one of my business ideas. Are you ready to take on the world??
If you delete someone’s memory, it means deleting her/his identity. It is almost fatal punishment. It is so scary to even imagine. What would happen to his/her world? What would happen to his family esp in a conditions like mine..I am continents away from home and I am deleted??Then...
P.S: I deleted two people from my list permanently.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Simple Tool Kit

I think two aspects of communication "visual and acoustical" are so entwined that it is impossible to entangle them and tell "look this is visual!!". But grossly one can say that kinaesthetics, facial expressions, dressing, and the way content is designed to present..are visual dimensions. In this post I just want to touch upon this "semiotic" factor. It is about arresting the attention of audience through symbols, colours, readily-comprehensible patterns and visual creativity. I thought of sharing these sources, drawn from my old bag of accumulated-learning. The reason why I share is partly selfish: I don’t want to die a victim of fatal presentations!!! Moreover every Tom, Dick and our own Hari knows these..even then they don’t use. So I’m reminding... guys please spice-up your presentations using these tools to vent your creativity:
  1. Image manipulation (Along with good old Photoshops to play with images)
  2. Google Docs (superb "Motion Charts" option popularized by Hans Rosling in 2006)
  3. Play with words (can be used for T-shirts, flag-designs, totems too)
  4. You can search for images at: Corbis, Google-Swirl, GettyImages
  5. All our movie/photo makers in our lappies..explore them..

Exploit these basic tools to integrate your creativity and your presentations!! "Looks" are like initial music before lyrics are heard. If you'd like to discuss, locate the surf-board "The Prashanth" on google wave..:)