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An entrepreneur needs to know how to make the perfect pitch. If Santa were to be one, what would he do? He’d make a business plan with lines such as “Projections: Total addressable market of two billion children. Conservatively, 1% market share means…”. Read more at the open forum.
If you don’t look out of your cubicle, you are not living on this planet. At least that’s something proved by most of my friends who dared to look out of the cubicle. Here is Anil’s recent experience.
The cubicle life constrains you to only a limited amount of knowledge; The ones coming from the papers, TV and sometimes from other’s experiences. In most of these cases, you only get a spiced view of the reality. Thats because no one wants to write plain text or show plain undramatic facts. Probably, even I spice up things sometimes here in my blog. For example, I could have written the first line of this post, ‘Only if you come out of the cubicle will you see the reality’. I chose otherwise! Although I just prefer to spice up text, you do come a lot of writeups which spice up the reality itself.
I’m not suggesting that you need to find a job which doesn’t involve sitting in a cubicle. Far from it. I have a few friends who involve themselves in NGOs on a Saturday or a Sunday. One of them had the opportunity to meet Abdul Kalam too! Now, that is something. Just think of all the thoughts the great man would have shared. All I’m suggesting that, you need to atleast occassionally see outside the cubicle too.
I am waiting for my friend, Anil to write a post on the experiences he had at Sringeri.
A company I really admired from a long time, one which was admired by many others too, a winner of social responsibility awards multiple times, one which seemed to change people’s lives. The same company makes money in reprehensible ways, takes advantage of the ignorance of illiterates, pushes its products on people who didn’t even know they required the product. Wow!!
Naxalites are always shown in bad light on the TV. However, it seems to me, at least the environment has benefitted from them. Illegal mining supposedly has completely come to a halt in the area.
I’m not sure who is right, who is wrong anymore. Everything is just perception.