This weekend i ended up reading another book referred by Zhao ( “art of profitability”). The book " A technique for producing ideas", may seem more like a business book which makes a reader pump up his creative juices, give zillions of examples of how people are creative. Surprisingly, this book does not tread that familiar path. Its a 48 page mind blowing book, where author James Webb Young with out adding an iota of pomposity, lays down 5 step approach to producing ideas.

" Well. Sometimes you have an instinct . You see something in a fighter . You dont even know it is real You are looking at it so bad, Can’t have any hope at all.But you still go for it " - “Cindrella Man”

Via Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic: Here are some basic ingredients of any good prez Simplicity Subtlety Elegance Suggestive rather than the descriptive or obvious Naturalness (i.e., nothing artificial or forced), Empty space (or negative space) Stillness, Tranquility Eliminating the non-essential

Estimation skills are very important for any person. What I mean by estimation skills is the basic numbercrunching ability. In the recent months, I have realized (thanks to my work I am involved), that few people take care to understand, develop and use the estimation skills. To make it more concrete, if one were to estimate the time and effort for an IT Project, how does one do it ? There are various standard models available and one of them is cocomo.

Guy Kawasaki : Blogging and social media are forms of evangelism. The goal of a lot of online marketing is to get bloggers and networks talking about a product. The best way to do this remains creating a great product. Ninety percent of evangelism is finding or creating a great product. It’s very hard to evangelize crap.