Adam Bosworth’s talk at ISCOC04 posits a new view of the evolution of internet world.He says “Keep it Simple and Sloppy” are the real technologies that become the trend setters ;Additionally, History also tends to reinforce the importance of the simple technologies like the widespread adoption of HTML,RSS and simple user interfaces.

We make decisions a lot of times, be it deciding what to do on a holiday, to deciding the educational course to taking up a job to complex decisions like choosing a life partner. The most interesting thing I realized after reading the book is the verbalization of our thought process that goes behind decision making. I do take decisions sometimes in order to maximize and sometimes in order to Satisfice.

Blair Singer says that time management is giving perfect attention to the activity being done and applying 85/15 rule to the activities that we need to attend to. Time is not the issue as much as priorities. Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it! You don’t have to do everything, you don’t have to run every errand and you don’t have to control every activity in your life.

All it needs is an idea to start a business , along with a solid team and a network. In these days, when we come across statements that " ideas are everywhere and it is only execution that matters", it is heartening to come across examples like Paul Hartunian , Alan Francis who with the sheer power of their idea created million dollar businesses. One came up with a idea of mass selling Brooklyn bridge and othe sold a book with blank pages !

Learning comes from Experience and Good Learning comes from Bad Experience