Drishti - the vision

Those of you who drive will agree with me, that in most uncertain situations 2 nd gear is the best to drive your car in. It gives you an opportunity to quickly slow down and if you have the luxury of a few extra unclaimed yards then you can quickly seize those too by accelerating just a little bit more. No real hassles, not much risk involved, a sense of complete control (just a sense) and smooth ride. OK! before a speed lover points out let me accept that indeed the ride is devoid of any thrill. So what? It is much safer, risk-free and with a higher probability of getting to where I am headed to. So unless you put me in a Volvo with at least six air bags, ABS, obstruction sensors and parachutes I will not speed -up on roads. But what about life? Are we also living our lives in second gear? Trying to exercise that sense of control and making it hassle-free? Are we forfeiting the right to thrilling successes just because we do not wish to run the risk of painful failures. Are we settli...

I am a strategist. I like to think of interesting strategies. Pulling things together, understanding trends, making predictions, optimizing activities etc. etc. Sometimes I look at different people around me and try to think of what i would do in their positions. For example how would I launch a car in the market or as a doctor how would i maximise benefit for my patients etc. The most recent role to which I played an imaginary understudy was that of a terrorist. I sat thinking what should be the best strategy for people who wish to destroy India. After lot of deliberation I reached to a conclusion that inaction is perhaps the best action. As an Indian, every morning I get up to the threat of meeting with an accident on the road. Even if I manage to reach office safely I am not sure if I can still be sure of a job. Some whimisical investment bankers up there on the East coast of America can create havoc in the lives of me and my friends just because the idiots thought that they can mak...

Everybody likes to be successful. And since most of us do not have the courage to go out there and create something for ourselves we conspire to get successful at somebody else's expense. One of the most frequented paths in this pursuit is the Corporate ladder. Anyways, this blog is not meant to take a critical view of this path. I am more interested in sharing with my readers (I hope there are a few) the dilemma that I face everyday at my office. I call it the Corporate Pendulum. For those of you who never bothered much about the science of simple harmonic motion (and also for those who never bothered about science itself) during your +2 classes here is the shortest course in Pendulum Physics. A pendulum oscillates around a mean position and it does so because there is some stupid force acting on it all the time trying to settle it at that mean position. Off course the pendulum, everytime it reaches that mean position, has some momentum and instead of settling down it overshoots t...