Sunday, February 13, 2011

Random Notes: Over last 2 years


I got into habit of carrying a small notebook, adding and noting down all types of random things from walks of life.

here is first out-come of items that I noted, most of them are related yet random. I am not sure why I am publishing it, but heck, what's the harm?


1.      How high-value, low scale business will survive in Cognizant model? The thought came along with CBC or Product Design/Visual Design Consulting
3.       Blog Ideas
a.      Jet Airways layoffs –reaction in market
b.      USB as a movie and song distribution mechanism legal as well as pirated – unique in India
c.      Attending the event – book event – experiences about what India is looked from outside, references to Frank Miller
d.      India looks young, vibrant, cynical of global needs, confused?
5.      Actions
a.      Freedom and Responsibility Culture by NetFlix CEO - Hastings
b.      Subscribe to Elle D’ecor – Design Magzine
c.      Get old hard disk repaired
f.       Know more about http://www.selco-india.com/management.html & Mr. Harish Hande
g.      Know more about http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/, Scott Schuman
h.      More about manslation
i.       Death and Power – a new Robot controlled Opera by Ted Machover, MIT Media Lab
j.       Charles and Ray Eames
                                                    i.     Design is a life skill not a professional skill
                                                   ii.     Powers of 10 concept
                                                  iii.     Take your pleasured seriously
m.    Find out more about HP Bluesheet Account Planning methodology
o.     Study more about http://mplab.ucsd.edu/wordpress/ Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD
p.      Intel or any other Parallel Programming Language
q.      Career Counseling site – may be as a charitable trust or may be as a blog
r.       Place history using Mobile Devices
s.      Study more about “Attitudinal Segmentation Techniques”
t.       How to help “Inner City Students” to find jobs or to write resume’s
u.      More about “Eight Immortals who created china” e.g. Chen Yuan
v.      What is Better Place doing now days? Shah Agassi firm
w.    Read more about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near The Sigularity is near by Ray Kurzweil
x.      Find and Study more about http://credibility.stanford.edu/ , a very interesting project
y.      Read more about Icarus Paradox
                                                    i.     http://blogs.hbr.org/vermeulen/2009/03/businesses-and-the-icarus-para.html
                                                   ii.     http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1038/is_n1_v35/ai_11874512/
2.      Books
a.      The roots of American civilization by Curtis Putnam Nettels
b.      Why we lie – by Dorothy Rowe
d.      Mapreduce algorithm
                                                    i.     Blue Arc
                                                   ii.     Aster Data
                                                  iii.     Green Plum
e.      100 years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez,
f.       Who is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger - why do I have his name as to be studied?
g.      The end of print by David Carson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_(graphic_designer))
h.      Siddharth Deshmukh :=> http://smalljoysunlimited.blogspot.com/
i.       http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/books/2010041548162.htm The illegitimate Tree by sharda sunder

Enjoy the random stuff :-)

1 comment:

Krish said...

Enjoyed reading your notes Ankush.

Thanks for the link to selco-india.com. Very interesting.

BTW, on your other note 'How to help “Inner City Students” to find jobs or to write resumes' - You may already be aware, but mentioning it nevertheless. I find with Cognizant JA Outreach initiative to be wonderful in addressing the gap to an extent and more specifically the JA Bridge IT program lead by Partha / Mathi. I find it amazing participating in grassroots level schools as well as colleges to spread awareness about opportunities available in general & the skills that they need to develop to bridge the gap.

~Krish.