Pearls Of Wisdom: Day 2

1. Boom Country: The new wave of Indian entrepreneurs
Alan Rosling, Mukund Rajan and Thomas Friedman 

India as a boom country is thriving on the basis of its cost advantage. One cannot rely on cost as a competitive advantage. Culturally one has always looked up to Innovation which India lacks.

Willingness and capabilities to take risk is failing. In order to avoid such inclinations the country has to celebrate its success (Role Models). It has focus on the dimension of emulation rather than compulsion. The Government of India cannot solve India's problems.

Thomas Friedman:

The rapidly growing disease in America as per US Surgeon General is Isolation. New Business Platforms are launched in the US after knowing the current trend of isolation. One has to tap into the trend/mood of the country. Connecting heart to heart is the fastest growing business. This model has proven to be successful by Airbnb. Airbnb has set a trend of selling experiences. People are monetizing passion and interest by selling experiences. The most important thing to be successful in such ventures is to have a Trust Platform. Trust is a legal performance enhancing drug. Trust can take people so far so fast.

The current trend that makes the cut is CQ+PQ > IQ 
Curiosity Quotient+Passion Quotient>Intellectual Quotient 
Trust+Educate+Innovate. 


2. The History Of Paper: Mark Kurlansky

History has no beginning and a end. The chronicles of history are documented on paper.

Paper was originally invented in Cairo. 3 inventions that came out from China and changed the world were gun powder, paper and printing. The tremendous need of the written word led them to the discovery of Paper. The words of Confucius needs to be written (Philosophy/Religion). In a way necessity is the mother of all inventions. Paper from China went to Korea Japan and India. Chinese used paper before any civilization.

Europeans initially were not interested in paper. They relied on parchment (Animal skin) as it lasted forever. 60-80 animals are needed to make a book in parchment. Only as they got interested in sciences they started making power.

Reason is the law of the world. Things have come out of rationality. Protestant Reformation is bed rock of  printing press. Gutenberg invented the Printing Press in 15 th century. Protestant Reformation was built on printed material. Most paper used today is made up of wood pulp.

Technology creates alternatives. Alternatives have not replaced existing technology. Vinyl records are becoming popular. Parchment is still used today for every British law. 

3. Poet Laureate: Keki Daruwala 

The world has not turned strange.
You are the strange.
The world will still be there the same way when you leave the world.
Perception about truth is equally important.
Atonement through blood should be made at center of earth in volcanic rock.
Al tough change is the way of life. Life has many dimensions.

4. Thank you for being late: Thomas Friedman 

1. New stories are meant to inform.

2. Column is meant to provoke. Illumination, values (gears and pulleys) make the heat and light of the column.

3. One should take the permission from himself to press pause on the human being it is. One has to reflect and rethink on how the whole machine in the world we live in works .

4. The world machine works on Politics, Geopolitics, Workplace, Ethics and Community.

5. Interaction of Markets, Mother Nature and Moores Law is reshaping the world we live in.

6. More Moores Law More Globalisation.

7. 2007 is the year that translates Moores law in reality. 2007 is the year of the apple iphone, facebook, twitter, youtube, android, kindle, airbnb, vmware, flipkart and cyberwar between Russia and Estonia.

8. Technology is accelerating above a human beings significant ability to act. In todays one needs to be a lifelong learner to meet interesting standards. Gone are the day that one can float with a 4 yr college degree. One should have a agile learning mindset to dodge the bullet.

9. God manifest in us in how we behave.

5. Seventy and to hell with it: Shobha De  

Air pollution can be controlled. Intellectual pollution is far more dangerous. One needs to train themself to withdraw.

Every choice in life is a political act. Any act done by a human being in life is not blind. Human actions are instinctive. Man instincts are deep rooted in being a political animal.

Circumstances make you the person you become. One needs to be reflective and dismiss the prejudice of society that impacts you.

6. A Life in Poetry: Javed Akhtar

Life is a war and play. We are the same person but we have new audiences. Art is a collective dream of the society. Dreams compel you to do something new.

7. X AND Y

A play about eyes cannot see what your mind  does not know.