Machines are taking over the world

Is there a 'dark side' to Amazon drones, Google robots?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/05/drones-amazon-google-robots/3880409/

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showcased a drone delivery system called Prime Air on 60 Minutes this past weekend. The idea is that package below five pounds can be delivered straight from Amazon distribution centers to customers within 30 minutes using drones.

We learned this week that Google acquired seven robotics companies , which according to a New York Times report , “are capable of creating technologies needed to build a mobile , dexterous robot. “

Google has been experimenting with driver less cars, and is actually running a same-day delivery service in California, so it is definitely interested in human less logistics for lack of better term

 Google’s Andy Rubin, the engineer behind the Android operating system who is now heading up the company’s robotics effort said “I have a history of making my hobbies into a career”

Google co-founder Larry Page , who has argued that technology should be deployed to free humans from drudgery and repetitive tasks.

How writing can change your life

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/how-writing-things-down-can-change-your-life.html

1. It clears your mind for higher-level thinking
2. It helps you process your emotion
3. It give you a record of past
4. You gain a sense of achievement
5. It helps you think big
6. It makes you more committed.

14 signs that your perfectionism is hurting you

It is okay to be okay.

Be expert in your core competency or skill  and be okay in others.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/why-perfectionism-is-ruin_n_4212069.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Thought of the day : know your application choking points

I was reading yesterday that government healthcare websites crumbled because users  have to create their user login and password to even browse the website.

This process was going through some gateways that caused the congestion

One should always know the bottlenecks in the application.

Own the best profiler and know what are the weak points.

Have solutions for those weak points.

Know the traffic and concurrent users to your website

Fail you way to success

Nice post by Scott Adam

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304626104579121813075903866.html

Forget passion. Goals are for losers. Suffer defeat. Lots and lots of defeat.

The are opening lines of WSJ Article by Scott Adam, Creator of Dilbert.

Lot of successful people give advice “Follow you passion”.
As a loan officer , Scott Adam learnt that one should never make a loan to someone who is following his passion. For example, you don't want to give money to sports enthusiast who is starting a sports store to pursue his passion for all things sporty. He is a bad bet. He is in business for wrong reasons.

Some bankers will prefer to give loan to guys who have no passion but desire to work hard at something that looks good on spreadsheet.  e.g dry cleaning store or fast food franchise boring stuff.

Success generally causes passion rather than passion causes success.

If you never achieve goal, you don’t try anything. On the other hand, if you achieve you goal, you will bored or you will create new goal.


Your job is not your job: your job is to find a better job.  You need to have a system rather than be goal oriented. the system is to continually look for better option.

System can withstand failure and helps you to shift focus to another attempt.

Failure is where success like to hide in plain sight. Everything you want out of life is is the huge , bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.

How to get others to see your potential

Nice Post by Dorie Clark

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/05/how_to_get_others_to_see_your_potential.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29&utm_content=Google+Reader


How to get others to see your Potential

• Create Content. Write blogs, tweets, podcast, video-casts that demonstrates your expertise. Creating solid contents reminds people of your new skills and knowledge.
•  Leverage social proof. If you are going to bother getting involved with a  professional organization, you should make a point to take leadership role, because the social proof of being seen as a leader will have exponential benefits.
• Find a wingman . Nobody's like a person who self-promotes. Find a like minded person  who scratch your back and you scratch his.