Finding order in randomness. Finding randomness in order.

I have this idea for movies that change their storyline depending on certain parameters received from the audience. this is how it will work: the movie theatre seats will have sensors to measure things like heart beat, perspiration, attention etc. to sense what the person is feeling at that moment. the movie itself will be shot so that there are a lot of possible story-lines. The sensors will feed to the central unit which will decide what direction the movie takes. In this way you can possibly watch the same movie a number of times and come out watching a completely different one!

Health is such a complicated subject. And now a days a very commercial one. So many health products, supplements, diets, juices, super-foods are readily available. Each one promises to be the best thing ever. Take diets for example. Think of any food category and there is probably a diet centered around it. Heck, there is even a 30 bananas a day diet. Yes, you eat nothing but bananas. And I guess it might make you go bananas in the process but I have not tried it so I can't really comment.  See  this ,  this  and  this . But what I am concerned about is the extremes in all these diets. And there is "evidence" which supports their claim and they always have hordes of people who have basically turned from whales to supermodels with these diets. The paleo diet to some extent and some other meat based diets on the one hand are all about meat (and how our ancestors ate), while you also see the exact opposite with a vegan diet or a raw food diet. And there is the new...

Dark skies, broken ties a thunderstorm on the horizon Black truth, white lies is this all just for fun? Slouched bodies, sad faces dragging through existence Tight hugs, soft caresses why all this persistence? easy choices, hard decisions the seriousness of it all simple concepts, misapprehensions is that why they fall?

In my last post I wrote about how people are different and how I learned to just accept that fact. However, that doesn't mean that I am not fascinated by the differences in people. I am most certainly. It amuses me why people do what they do, why they think what they think and why they are the way they are. I guess a lot of it is their culture, upbringing. But also there is a big genetic portion - we are born this way. It is the usual nature vs nurture debate and I think the consensus is that both play a significant role. Also what I have realized (not sure if there is some research on this..) is that some brains are more malleable than others. So something in some people gives them more of an ability to change. A lot of it has to do with the desire to change, however the ability to change is equally important and I believe this ability is genetic i.e. you can't obtain it. So people who have a malleable brain and also the desire to change have the best chance of changing (not ...

One of the better business books I have read is "Good to Great". Excellent read for anyone, not just entrepreneurs. The key message in the book that I understood was that the most important thing that will make a company stand out and be extra ordinary is the people. It sounds like common sense but you will be surprised as to how many businesses out there forget this cardinal rule. The right kind of people at the right places will get things done and nothing else can replace that. No amount of training, education can substitute having the right person at the right job. There was a time when I used to try to understand the world, specifically other people, through my lens. If someone did something which I did not agree with, or which I found extremely repulsive, I would beat myself over how could that person do that? Why can't he or she think like I do? I mean, its so simple but why can't they see it..etc.etc. You get what I mean. Thank god I got over that phase. No...

I am an entrepreneur. I started my own e-commerce company a few years ago and have never looked back since. Best decision of my life. Not to say that it was all easy and rosy, I had to deal with a lot of hard work, stress, and uncertainty. But it was all worth it. Now I have so much freedom to do what I really like - travel more, meet people, read, watch movies etc. Many of my friends and people I meet ask me about my entrepreneurial journey. Not to say that I am an expert or a highly accomplished one (far from it, I still have a long long way to go and many more things to do!). However one common belief I find amongst most people who want to start a business is that they are always looking for something new and innovative. They believe that is the only way to start a new business - doing something that is not there in the market or something that no one has ever done before. Now, we do need entrepreneurs who do precisely that - start or make something that didn't exist before. ...

In one of my previous posts I talked about randomness and how it impacts us and basically determines why we do what we do. The opposite of randomness is certainty. And this post is on the fallacy of the idea of certainty. Certainty - mathematically speaking something can be certain only when there is a 100% probability of it happening. And if science has taught us anything, it is that nothing is 100% certain. In fact, there is a distinct non-zero probability that I will experience spontaneously combustion right now as I write this. There is a distinct probability that I will disappear right now from where I am sitting and instantaneously appear perched on the top of Mt Everest (and probably not last there for too long - again probably, not certainly). So when someone tells you he is certain of something - certain that John is going to arrive late for the meeting as usual, or certain that Chad and Marissa are not going to make it as a couple - ask him if he is certain he is going t...

The world today is a in a bad shape. The resources that humans have relied on are not unlimited. We are basically destroying the planet in the name of progress and advancement. If this continues soon there will be no fish in the oceans, most of the animal species will be extinct due to destruction of their habitat, we will use up all the oil, and basically it will be all doom and gloom. In effect, our existence is actually sort of a giant Ponzi scheme. We are using up everything without replenishing. Until there is nothing left and then it will all come crashing done. Or most likely it will come crashing down much before that - when we realize just how limited these resources are. The peak oil theory is for real. Unless.. Unless, we find a cheaper energy source before that peak hits. In fact, there is just so much energy out there. There is actually an unlimited amount of energy out there. We just don't know how to harness it. Matter itself is energy. So in effect, I feel like i...

through good and bad, thick and thin, i will be by your side through all the things you would have been you will never feel tied life will fun, exciting, meaningful with you by my side you will be yourself - heart and soul you will never have to hide we’ll follow our heart, our dreams no norms can hold us back we’ll explore ideas, frontiers, realms Off the beaten track

i like short things. i am not a big fan of the elaborate and extensive. long articles bore me. long winded people lose my attention. i look for simplicity in things. simple things are beautiful. they are elegant. simple sentences. simple ideas. simple people. the best things, the best ideas, the best people are simple. if i were to have one philosophy in life - perhaps it would be Simplicity. if a life problem has multiple solutions pick the simple one. it is usually the best one. if simple is so much better, why complicate things? its human nature to an extent. simple is too easy, and if it is too easy it must not be the best way. complicated is difficult. if we do it the complicated way it gives us a sense of achievement, of hard work, of effort. at the end of it we feel like we put in a lot into it - so it must be the best way. not necessarily. in fact, almost always never. i like to summarize things. i like to get to the bottom of things. i like to get the gist of things...