This morning I am thinking of how we deal with available information that bombards us in petabytes on a daily basis and how we have to make sense of it all for ourselves and for our children.
This from a semi avid blogger who contributes in kilos to the petas. What got me thinking was an off hand remark from an acquaintance recently. When asked if he had heard about a recent large scale, headline item, power outage in India he remarked that he did not pay much attention to the news - in fact he did NOT listen to them as a rule.
That got me thinking. Was he serious or delusional or somehow had more sense than most of us walking around?
Recent tragedies including the one in Connecticut just yesterday which had our president step out and say 'Our Hearts Are Broken Today' was headline news.
Whether that is something you can ignore or take in stride and move on is what I am trying to determine.
For all its achievements humanity stuns us yet again. Media plays an important role in curating all this data and presenting for mass consumption. But given today's rating driven society the objective is not always clear.
I think the bottom line if there is one is that you have to do an immensely solid job of putting things in perspective. Further you have to be able to constantly extend your perspective that you may have gained in the past so that new data can define the range of possibilties and be clear about outliers versus the standard practices.
There is no escaping that the so called Black Swan events have always been around and will continue to rattle the status quo. Whether its a massive Tsunami or a human losing its balance causing untold sorrow our perspective to value 'life as the ultimate there is' makes us vulnerable. There is no getting around that and tuning it out.
Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
Singing in tune, or out of it, could be a temporary solution..better than listening to the news, at least.
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