A brilliant article by Paul Graham : Hiring is Obsolete. It basically says, gone are the days that you have to go and work for a company. These are the days where its much better to start a company and have a potential employer of yours acquire it.

  Average can be considered as mediocre by a large number of people. However in the areas of decision making, remarkably there have been a large number of instances where collective wisdom of the crowds have helped in churning out a better solution. The premise of the book is that “ A group with enough diversity, Independence of opinion , Decentralization of the decision making and an aggregation of all the opinions will enable the group to take a much better decision than relying on the so called experts of the field.

I have been away from the blog world for a fortnight or so . It gives me a feeling that I have been away for a decade. My work involved relocation to a new place and hence the pause in my blogging activity. I am back to working in a company and I have realized that unless one actively puts some discipline in to one’s schedule and checks out the latest happenings on the net, it is very easy to become “Institutionalized”- My favorite word for people who resist change and get adapted to an environment of safety haven.

While I was cleaning up some of the old stuff in my shelf, I came across a poem which I had preserved long ago. It goes this way: -———————————————— Dreams need people Like people need dreams Visions need somebody To make them real it seems The world is a canvas And you have the power To paint your kind of picture When it comes to be your hour Hold on to your Dream

“Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.”  -- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer