What was 2005 for me ?
My entry into blog. http://arvindtm.blogspot.com
Foray into Toastmaster circle.
Entreprenurial interests.
Revival of interest in technology.
Decision to quit big and join small company
Radio book
Info Hungry Events, symposiums,conferences, seminars, Lectures, workshops…
Table Tennis
Downside.
Lesser care about health
Ideas for Startups: “finding the problem intolerable and feeling it must be possible to solve it. Simple as it seems, that’s the recipe for a lot of startup ideas.”
Bought this book y’day.
Hackers and painters.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596006624/104-9449334-9251118?v=glance&n=283155
Have you ever thought there could be anything common between nerds and
painters ?
Read him. This one hell of a genius.
http://www.paulgraham.com
Probably you could change the way you think about programming and
computers in general.
It feels happy when you read something insightful….
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can’t make for yourself. If you want a potato or a pencil or a place to live, you have to get it from someone else.
How do you get the person who grows the potatoes to give you some? By giving him something he wants in return. But you can’t get very far by trading things directly with the people who need them. If you make violins, and none of the local farmers wants one, how will you eat?
The solution societies find, as they get more specialized, is to make the trade into a two-step process. Instead of trading violins directly for potatoes, you trade violins for, say, silver, which you can then trade again for anything else you need. The intermediate stuff– the medium of exchange– can be anything that’s rare and portable.
Linksys.com � Learning Center/Network Security
Flash Tutorial network secuirty…
Linksys.com � Learning Center/Network Basics
Nice Flash tutorial on Home Networking…
Learn it in few minutes
Attended TiE’s seminar on business plan.
“How to Write a Business Plan” on December 17th, Saturday presented by the TiE-Bangalore Women’s Chapter.
Three presenters.
Anjana vivek on Business plan in general.
Samir Kumar, VC, JUMPSTART on VC perspective on the biz plan
And Rajnish Singh, ICICI Bank Banker perspective on Business Plans.
Good bunch of turn out and an interactive session.
Samir was impressive. Very disciplined and straight thoughts on venture funding.
I thought we had good many investors by now in India. Scene still isn’t that good?
Presentation material would be made available on
http://www.tiebangalore.org soon
What’s the Big Idea? – New York Times: “What’s the Big Idea? ”
I lead a perfectly healthy, satisfactory life without being religious. And I think more people should try it.
Not at all. I do not believe in the inner world. I think that the inner world comes from the exploration of the outer world – reading, traveling, talking. I do not believe that meditation or cogitation leads to wisdom or peace or the truth.
where do you think ideas come from?
I don’t think they come out of daydreaming. Everybody who has had a great idea or made a great realization has been working very hard at it, and they often have failed many times. You don’t go from nothing to a great idea without doing a lot of work
OSCON 2005 Keynote – Dick Hardt
Identity2.0
Extremely innovative presentation.
http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/oscon_videos/oscon_sm.html
Here are the two lists.
Times pick of All time 100 movies and all time 100 novels
Wish we had 25 hours ?!
ShobaRani is discussing.
ShobaRani 5:40 AM on November 17, 2008 Permalink
I enjoyed reading ur blogs…But the problem is ,if I have not read the Blog for a week or so….I landup in problem…Keep Clicking “Forward” and “Back” buttons…
searching for the posted links…if the front end is designed a bit …it would be more interesting..
Thank U…