“See, we’ve seen the curse of the gifted before. Some of us were those kids in college. We learned the hard way that the bill always comes due – the scale of the problems always increases to a point where your native talent alone doesn’t cut it any more. The smarter you are, the longer it takes to hit that crunch point — and the harder the adjustment when you finally do. And we can see that *you*, poor damn genius that you are, are cruising for a serious bruising.”

- Eric S. Raymond to Linus Torvalds in his essay “The curse of the gifted programmer”

(Full text here – http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3)

Working at a start-up requires an irrational amount of commitment. This either comes from the love of the vision, or love of the team, or love of the work you’re doing, or all of the above, or something more irrational than any of the above. A start-up does not pay well, cannot manage well, and has process gaps that are inanely obvious, and other things that one rationally expects. Start-ups do not lack the understanding or appreciation to solve these problems, but lack the luxury to spend time on those important things because of other more important things. Only when you dissolve yourself in the start-up as an owner (not an employee) does it start making sense, and every problem is seen as one you need to fix and not something that the company needs to fix for you.

The confenderation cup 2009, South Africa final between Brzail and United States just ended with brazil snatching a 3 – 2 Victory, after being 0-2 down after the first half. It made me wonder how many teams in the world would be able to do that? Coming from being after being favoriates , bogged down by the minnows in the big match final. What would Dunga (Brazil coach) had said to them  in the locker room, in the break, and how  well the players responded.

Being a champion is something much more different than having the skills, the talent and putting the acts together.

It is about trulely believing in your abilities, in realizing that second best is no good, in giving everything you’ve got, in understanding “it has to be done”, its about not even thinking of giving up for even a single second, its about realizing your own potential, its about realizing you are a champion, its about your willingness to succeed, its about your ability to maintain your poise in tough situation, its about the character.

Brazil may have not pull off another victory EVER after being down in the second half, but the truth is, the fact is they are the champions today, and deserving ones.

The day ended with me fixing the bug with removing one character, down 200 bucks on dinner in the office, tired with just 2 hours of sleep in last 48 hours and a laptop that does not boot….. yet with a positive feeling, something which I dont seem to have much nowadays and few questions to myself, about which I better find answers soon.

All in a work’s day!

Read it here.

so, whats your life_worthiness_quotient?

I recently get the opportunity to have a conversation with such, one of the more enlightened person. We came up discussing about the some business process, and I got some information from him, in which I saw an exciting opportunity and idea and as he said, “Its all about capitalizing on the opportunity, as it present itself”

About the idea, I will hopefully write soon…

Till then….. So long

I happen to be a big fan of both, Harry Potter and LOTR. Both are legendary novels and they have written few chapters that can never be forgotten.

Lets see few of the similarities in both the plots

a) Both the movies have a super-powerful villain (Lord Voldemort/Dark Lord Sauron ), who was extremely powerful in the past, weakened (but not finished) due to some happenings and is trying to come back to power.

If he comes back….. it would be impossible to stop him(from wrongdoings)

So the aim is to not allow him to come to power

b) In both the movies, the required task could only be done by a particular bunch of people (Harry, Ron, Hermione/Frodo, Sam ). No other can do it!!

c) There is only one way to defeat the Villain (Destroy all the Horcruxes/Destroy the One Ring) and he already knows about it.

d) There is a wise-person in both the novels (Professor Dumbledore/Gandalf the Grey ), Who knows all and does not seem to make a mistake ever.

e) The protogonists (Harry, Ron, Hermione/ Frodo, Sam) are way too weak for the Villain ( Lord Voldemort/Dark Lord Sauron), but only they can face/fail him.

f) Though the wise-person is perfect (and an almost equal match for the villain), he cannot destroy/defeat the villain. His role is limited only to guidance/strategy making.

I dont know, I am not successful either. one thing i know for sure that successful people hardly make any blunders.They know what to do well before it actually has to be done.They are planners,people who change the face of the world, or atleast their life, by planning. I might sound cliched, these all are the good qualities,talent,intelligence, hardwork etc. So whats the difference? lots of people have these qualities,they all are not successful.

Surely, Not all deserving people get what they deserve, The reason, so simple….. they do not deserve it! Yes,they have one ‘weakness’ or another which negates their qualities. Its just they do not realize it for most of the times and remain unsucessful.

I have one mind, i can think in a particular way.but my way is not necessarily correct.If you have any comments about my blog,please post them! it will help me learn this world better.

–Thanks
Mohit