Gyaan Session

One of the things that you learn as you move forward in any startup is financial prudence. Financial prudence does not mean cutting down on spends. It means knowing where to spend and where not.

When people bootstrap to start a company, they normally are very circumspect about any and every expense. Often they spend time ... rather waste time on debates of whether an expense is required or not.

On the other hand, people who have large amounts of capital available to them end up splurging money on items which are hardly necessary for the business.

As any team moves on, there is a certain skill that gets developed where there is much higher clarity on what is an avoidable expense and what is an investment into the business.

-Kash

loops and holes and locks and keys

Knowing that expectations are traps just doesnt save you from them. This realisation is quite irritating.

At times I escape the trap only to find it in front of me a little way down along the road. It would be so much nicer if I could diffuse the trap completely.

this day .. that day .. what??!!

I have absolutely no idea what a womans day is supposed to be all about! Theres this one day when all the papers are full of stats on achievements, failures and various crimes related to women. Whats the point?

In fact this is only the tip of the iceberg. There are so many days which make no sense at all! Friendship Day. Ok, its a kool excuse to go around making friends. More like getting to know a hot girl you've always wanted to talk to. In that sense it is more useful than a womans day.

Theres World day for prayer. Theres a Be Happy Day. Theres a spagetti day. National Hugging day. Hmm .. thats useful. World Hellos day. Theres a green day. No smoking day.

Given all the madness going on, I suggest the following -

Topsy Turvy day - Everyone has to go upside down. Walk on hands. And guys dress as girls and girls dress as guys.
Langdi Day - Everyone hops on one leg.
Chamman Charlie Day - Everyone oils there hair till it drips and then set it with middle parting, flattening it on both sides.

You guys can pick up the dates on which to have these. Of course I dont think any of the 365 days are left. I'm late. :(

Disagreements and how people deal with them

I've always taken disagreements as things to resolve. If I disagree with a person, I depend on logic to either convince him of my point of view or get convinced myself.

There are two things I have noticed. One, at times there are disagreements that arise out of different points of view. These cannot be resolved by logic and it requires a certain level of maturity to put behind and accept as they are.

Second, there are disagreements where while logic can solve them, people get into the game of egos, where they refuse to see reason and misinterprete logic to stick on to their point. This kind of a situation always has wierd and invalid analogies exchanging hands. Each person somewhere will know about the facts and what it is all about, but outwardly he will convince the other one as well as himself of a convoluted logic to twist facts and reason.

Over the last few years I have seen that the ideal scenario exists only in relationships where there is no insecurity from either side. If two people who feel comfortable with each other get into a disagreement, they will deal with it impersonally and with pure logic. If two people who are inherently insecure (or either one is) with each other get into a discussion, here either one of the two scenarios will take place. Mostly the second actually.

To blog or not to blog

I just saw my archives recording the number of posts that i've made every month since november when I started.

I was shocked to see the numbers moving from 11 in november to 9 in december to 6 in january and 3 in february. Any dunce can see that given this trend, my blogging trend is gonna end in april and go negative (if thats possible) then on.

So now, i've decided to move the worm upwards. Need to pull out some more time to type in stuff.

This reminds me of my personal diary. I started writting my diary when I was in first year IIT. No, actually I wrote for 3 months in my 10th standard. But I actually started it for a decent duration of time in 1st year of gradschool.

I used to write in first person, as though I were talking to my diary. I used to call my diary Anne. Well, why is a good question. Ask me when you meet me. :P

Initially for a couple of months, i was very regular. i would makeup on weekends if i missed a single day of writing. at times it would be just 2 lines, but it would be there for sure.

As time went on, entries got more infrequent. I would write only when something major happened in life. Or when I came across a high funda thought/concept.

As more time went by, I would write only when something jhingbang happened. Its like earlier I would report an earthquake scoring 3. Now I started reporting only if it was 8 and killed half the people on the planet. :)

Anyway, so thats that. Now its been a year since I wrote in my diary. But I have them with me and at times I love to read through old entries and reflect on what i had gone thru at that time. Feels good. I havent written anything for the last year. As I move forward, I will never be able to read back on this last year.

Its time to break this blog and make another so that I end up writing more blogs in number terms. Whether there is content or not is not my concern. Life is about numbers these days.

Am I becoming synical? Maybe.