How to build trust: http://www.quora.com/Trust/What-are-some-good-ways-to-build-trust
Formula for entrepreneurial success: https://medium.com/frontpage-picks/ea0b02c504cd
How to get start-up Ideas: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
नारायण सुर्वेंनी हिंदीतून मराठीत अनुवाद केलेली एक ‘माय’ किव्वा ‘आई’ वर सुंदर कविता.
हंबरून वासराले चाटती जवा गाय
तवा मले तिच्यामंदी दिसती माझी माय
आयाबाया सांगत व्हत्या व्हतो जवा तान्हा
दुस्काळात मायेच्या माजे आटला व्हता पान्हा
पिठामंदी पानी टाकून पाजत जाय
तवा मले पिठामंदी दिसती माझी माय
कन्या-काट्या येचायाला माय जाई रानी
पायात नसे वहान तिच्या फिरे अनवानी
काट्याकुट्यालाही तिचं नसे पाय
तवा मले काट्यामंदी दिसती माझी माय
बाप माझा रोज लावी मायच्या मागं टुमनं
बास झालं शिक्षान आता घेऊ दे हाती काम
शिकुनश्यानं कुठं मोठ्ठा मास्तर हुनार हायं
तवा मले मास्तरमंदी दिसतो माझी माय
दारु पिऊन मायेले मारी जवा माझा बाप
थरथर कापे आन लागे तिले धाप
कसायाच्या दावनीला बांधली जशी गाय
तवा मले गायीमंदी दिसती माझी माय
बोलता बोलता येकदा तिच्या डोळा आलं पानी
सांग म्हने राजा तुझी कवा दिसंल रानी
भरल्या डोल्यान कवा पाहील दुधावरची साय
तवा मले सायीमंदी दिसती माझी माय
म्हनून म्हंतो आनंदानं भरावी तुझी वटी
पुना येकदा जलम घ्यावा तुजे पोटी
तुझ्या चरनी ठेवून माया धरावं तुझं पाय
तवा मले पायामंदी दिसती माझी माय…
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This post was written by Brendan Baker on Quora, worth a read for any
creativeperson, anywhere..
This post is for the 5% of people who are driving. This is not for the calculators. This is not for the supporters. This is for people who do things.
Fuck the accolades. Seek the criticism.
Accolades don’t help you.
What helps you is qualified support and knowledgeable criticism.
I come from a world of social entrepreneurs. Some of them do amazing things. Right now I’m working with Kauffman Foundation Education Labs startups. Same thing.
Because of the potential for social impact, both groups get a lot of praise and accolades.
For example, in the past, I’ve worked in Senegal and Ethiopia to design low cost water pumps and build whole markets around them.
‘Oh wow!,‘ most people back home would say, ‘that’s amazing!’
That never really helped. But a few people knew what they were talking about.
‘Okay,’ they’d say, ‘Generally this is pretty good, but you’re going to fail, because you’re missing this key link in the supply chain.’
More helpful.
Or ‘Yes, you can get pumps to hundreds of people, but what about sanitation? That’s missing from your plans. Rethink it.’
Even better.
This happens with VCs too, incidentally. Most conversations with VCs seem to go well, because VCs are good at building relationships. But really, two productive things can come out of a meeting with a VC:
1) They help you directly. Money or connections.
2) They make you better. They criticize you where it counts. They poke holes. They make you defend. They make you justify. They make you question.
Most VC meetings don’t result in money. But hopefully they can make you better. This has real value.
I remember my first pitch to Silicon Valley VCs. They identified the core assumptions we hadn’t validated and politely tore us apart. We went home a crushed team. Through the night we rebuilt the weakest parts and emerged stronger. It was the most valuable meeting we had.
If you’re doing something big, people will compliment you. Most will give you accolades or be quietly supportive. But it’s those who simultaneously support and challenge you who can help.
The best teams know this. They embrace feedback and seek criticism. They find ways to change and improve.
And they know that when someone criticizes them, it’s an indication of respect. Only the people who really care risk helping us improve.
Fuck the accolades. Find the knowledgeable criticism.
B
On 30th oct. (saturday), I attended a seminar on Beagle & Hawk Board at the CDAC centre in juhu Mumbai. It was a very interactive seminar, lots of stuff related to beagle & hawk boards, and how you can use them were told & discussed.
beagle board
here is a summary of what happened in this one day seminar:
Syed Khasim, who works at Texas Instruments and is known as one of the founders of beagle board started of the seminar with the overview of beagle board & the related families of processors on these boards.
He next mentioned the importance of choosing the right processors & boards for your projects as these make a difference in performances & costs. Texas Instruments as processors suitable for almost all applications from the basic (Sitara) to advanced which use audio, video & graphics capability namely the OMAP series of processors. So you can choose based on the your specific requirements & save costs & increase performance.
Capability of OMAP
Khasim demoed how to install Andriod on beagle & hawk boards. Some boards also come with android pre-built on the boards. For details you can visit rowboat project page. You can also install Ubuntu, Angstrom & Win CE on these boards. All follow basically the same steps with a few custom changes.
Demo of installing and working with apps on boards
After Khasim’s talk there was a session by Sunny Siji of Bizmobiletech who gave an overview of the OS on beagleboard and also talked about UI & Application development on the boards.
Chaitannya Mahatme of Pune’s open arm lab gave a presentation about building tool chains for ARM, such as linkers, loaders, compilers etc. and also gave a brief talk on the build environment for the linux & ARM.
A few people who already owned the boards had some problems which were solved & discussed at the end part of the seminar, and the interesting thing was the solutions were given by many in the audience. The seminar concluded with discussions on the things such as how to get this initiative of bringing the users & developers of beagle, hawk & panda boards together and how it can be made to do something substantial. All in all, I had a great time.
Note: I have not gone in detail about the various topics as it would be a very long post. I will write about these separately as & when i try these out, which hopefully will be very soon.
Resources:
Beagle Board mailing list/group: http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard
If you are a interested in beagle, hawk, panda boards in Pune and want to know more, you can visit Open ARM Lab website which they have just launched and also join their mailing list, it is a good resource.
Open ARM Lab Pune, mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/openarmlab
If you can know any other resources please write them in the comments section below, it will help the readers & me as well.
Google is rolling out google instant in India. When I opened google this morning there it was.. finally I could use google instant. here is a short demo with screenshots:
When you first open google
When you first open google you will not notice anything different. it is when you start typing in the word you want to search, that you start noticing something….for this demo i’m using the keyword ‘nikhil’…
When start typing the keyword
you will notice that results are displayed as soon as i have started typing, it gives the relevant results for the words present in the search box as you keep typing, as you can see i have typed only the letter n of ‘nikhil’, it shows the most searched items beginning with n, similarly it will show the most searched items when i have typed the letters ‘nik’ & ‘nikh’ of the word ‘nikhil’, as shown in the images below.
search displayed as you type in the search box
search result displayed as the you type in the box
Also notice as we type in the keyword google highlights in grey of the most searched word of containing the same letters. (not sure if this there earlier)
word highlighted in grey.
google has also provided an option to turn google instant on & off, this is located right next to the search box as shown
You can turn google instant on & off as & when you want.
At first glance Google Instant looks good, the search results are displayed faster than before. Looking forward to using it more and if there is something else to write about I will update this post.
This is the first poem I have ever written, so naturally as with all sane people (I do consider myself sane for some reason) i have my doubts whether its good, bad or ugly or even its worth calling a poem. But non the less I’m publishing it here cause if not here then where? so here goes
DO!
If you DO, you will GO places,
If you DO, you will Flow,
If you DO, you will have a Glow!
Cause.. if you Don’t, you Won’t,
So get off your butt & get to Work!
Please do send me your honest reactions, so I may improve or even stop writing poems if I’m that bad 
I haven’t visited this blog for quite a while now let alone writing anything on it! So..I have decided to start writing again. Few of my regular readers (me & a close friend) will be happy today. Since I’m not a famous starlet, politician, someone in the media etc. or even someone who is a expert in anything my opinion will not matter much… so I will try not to express any. Nah, just kidding! anyways as I’m already an awesome writer, hope I find something as awesome to write about..so stay tuned.
Yesterday’s Wimbledon men’s final between Roger Federer & Andy Roddick was spectacular. After last years final which was pretty awesome too most thought that this year Federer would win fairly easily, but when the players got the court what followed was nearly five hours of pure awesomeness. It was really divine to see two people playing their hearts out with a single aim & focus on only one thing….winning the title.
The match had many exciting & spectacular moments:
one of them being the famous comeback by Federer in the second set tie breaker after being down three set points and coming back & winning it with his serve, in the entire match he had served up an incredible 50 aces.
It is quite interesting to note how both players were handling the pressure of the situation, while the pressure, anxiety, tension wasn’t showing on either of their faces, you just knew it was there….while Roddick was looking up at the stand where his wife & coach were seated after the points, Federer seemed to be just talking to himself quietly and getting on with things as he usually does, I was reminded about a comment made by Fedex on TV, he said ‘you can only depend on yourself’ and i think it was evident from his body language that he believed that.
Even after the four & a half hours of tennis in the final set, with each of them trying to break anothers service, neither of them were ready to back down & never looked tired at any stage, finally after 30 games in the last set , Federer emerged as the champion.
The highlight of the match though I thought was Andy Roddick, not only because he played some great tennis but also because of the way he carried himself throughout the match, even after losing it, he was able to control his emotions and also applauded Fedex along with the rest of the spectators. Roddick although was always a good player, he was looked upon as somebody who could be erratic at times and had inconsistency as an issue, but with this performance I feel he has shed that image and has really emerged as a a true champion & a great ambassador of the game, a serious contender of winning slams consistently, I personally hope to see more of Roddick in the Finals of the grand slams.
Finally I was also happy to see & hear my all time favorite Pete Sampras ( Pistol Pete), that really was icing on the cake for me, it was Sampras who ruled the roost what with seven wimbledon titles & fourteen grand slams.
So all in all it was a treat to watch a great sporting event with great sportsmanship and now hoping to see the same in the US Open
This coming saturday everyone related to blogging will descend on SICR near Model Colony for the second edition of Blogcamp Pune,
What is BlogCamp anyways….simply put blogcamp is an event organised by the bloggers for the blogging community focused on sharing, learning new ideas on various issues concerned with blogging where anyone who is interested & willing to contribute are invited to join in. this will be an intense event with demos, dicussions and interaction between attendents, you will hear from experts and people who are already into blogging speak and you will also get your queries answered and get more than usefull tips and tricks along the way to improve your blogs in every aspect. But you should ‘participate’ in the event rather than just ‘attend’, to participate you can do simple things like encourage ur friends to come along through social networks, word of mouth etc… you can also choose to take photographs of the event or take videos etc.. if someone isn’t already doing that!! or you can give an talk on a topic of your choice (related to blogging) even if it is only for 10 mins or promote the event by writing a blog (just like this one 
), Idea being to get you involved rather than just ‘attending’ which would be even more fun and you don’t have to pay anything to participate in this blogcamp.
So if you already have an blog or else are interested in starting one yourself you should be definately attending blogcamp pune this saturday, my gut feeling is this is going to be a rocking and an awesome learning experience!! See You There
Although the event is free for all I recommend you register yourself right now:
To register for the event click here
For more details about this event, visit this site
