Tea or coffee?

Its interesting that when you are there standing in front of the coffee machine deciding which to pour out- coffee or tea, you tend to blank out for a second wondering if you have pressed the right buttons in life and whether you know what you want, and reel off into where that will take you. Then you take so long to decide, someone waiting behind you prods, "Tea or coffee, sir?"
And it snaps that you are in dire need to rethink what you are doing, or want to do.

Yes coffee, but whipped this time. Take things to the next level, maybe?

One line news...

Today's news in one sentence- on BR Ambedkar's 120th birth anniv, Ratan Tata said that he nearly got married 4 times while the sensex shot up 434 points with record 80% turnout in TN elections as Paul Valthaty blasted 120 runs of 63 IPL balls while kids in boston will learn their ABCs on ipads not crayons!
In these days of one liners and quick messaging, how would you summarize the day's news, and make it fun to read? Here's a shot! Cheers and have a great day!

One line news...

Today's news in one sentence- on BR Ambedkar's 120th birth anniv, Ratan Tata said that he nearly got married 4 times while the sensex shot up 434 points with record 80% turnout in TN elections as Paul Valthaty blasted 120 runs of 63 IPL balls while kids in boston will learn their ABCs on ipads not crayons!
In these days of one liners and quick messaging, how would you summarize the day's news, and make it fun to read? Here's a shot! Cheers and have a great day!

of ideas and execution

There are great ideas and there's execution. And they don't go hand in hand always. I may have fantastic ideas and visuals in my head, and may go about town ranting away about what a great thinker I am. I may make an impression and people may recall my blabbering and identify me for my creativity and brilliant thoughts. But that's not even the drawing board. I am nothing but words.

Then there's execution. But there's bad execution also, sadly. I may be hard working, unquestioningly go about a task and whir and spin away till the conveyor belt presents what your majesty ordered. And that is such a dangerous way to work, init? So what do we chase? Well, it's the potent combination of a great idea, a zeal to working hard, how we conduct ourselves in seeing through the deliverable, right till the feedback. This is the holy grail, which solidifies the random figments into real space, dust, metal and glass. The figments that zapped around in your skull are tested, twisted, prodded and real physics shatter your cloud 9 castles. You rethink, revisit the drawing board or worst still, have all your plans scrapped. It dawns on you that you are not playing with dough anymore. You have come too long a way off to turn around. So you stick with your dreams and decide that the only way out is through. So you get real. The homework starts. You are an ant, a horse, a mule and a thinker. Time flies. The castle now has a solid, reliable foundation. It's strong. And believable. It will hold anything on it. Now you start dreaming again, but this time around, others are with you. Their abilities also come through and your dream becomes others' aspirations as well. Next thing, everyone is working together to make this a reality and scrapping this or looking back is so not an option anymore.
The marriage of idea and execution makes you the point of contact for dreamers and sloggers. You want to do bigger and better. The dreamer and the slogger is now the true creator.

of ideas and execution

There are great ideas and there's execution. And they don't go hand in hand always. I may have fantastic ideas and visuals in my head, and may go about town ranting away about what a great thinker I am. I may make an impression and people may recall my blabbering and identify me for my creativity and brilliant thoughts. But that's not even the drawing board. I am nothing but words.

Then there's execution. But there's bad execution also, sadly. I may be hard working, unquestioningly go about a task and whir and spin away till the conveyor belt presents what your majesty ordered. And that is such a dangerous way to work, init? So what do we chase? Well, it's the potent combination of a great idea, a zeal to working hard, how we conduct ourselves in seeing through the deliverable, right till the feedback. This is the holy grail, which solidifies the random figments into real space, dust, metal and glass. The figments that zapped around in your skull are tested, twisted, prodded and real physics shatter your cloud 9 castles. You rethink, revisit the drawing board or worst still, have all your plans scrapped. It dawns on you that you are not playing with dough anymore. You have come too long a way off to turn around. So you stick with your dreams and decide that the only way out is through. So you get real. The homework starts. You are an ant, a horse, a mule and a thinker. Time flies. The castle now has a solid, reliable foundation. It's strong. And believable. It will hold anything on it. Now you start dreaming again, but this time around, others are with you. Their abilities also come through and your dream becomes others' aspirations as well. Next thing, everyone is working together to make this a reality and scrapping this or looking back is so not an option anymore.
The marriage of idea and execution makes you the point of contact for dreamers and sloggers. You want to do bigger and better. The dreamer and the slogger is now the true creator.

Retire when you WANT TO

I have never really understood the concept of retiring at 60. What if you really enjoy your job and actually get better at it even after this golden number? People in creative, HR and advisory professions get better with years in these fields. At 60, if I am in good physical and mental condition, and don't see or show any signs of hanging up my boots, I may want to continue and actually get better at what I do. Three to four decades of experience brings great insight into the field. Employers will always benefit from all that experience, plus the connections and network created over years. I have spent hours chatting up with elderly people, and am only amazed at why I am the only recipient of the insight and knowledge.

Traditionally, retiring, or being made to retire, has other psychological effects. Even youthful and energetic people are made to feel old, which I have always thought was unfair. This is followed by making one feel the need for support from others around, making one feel helpless and dependent. Let retirement be an individual option. People in their youth can be made to feel old and helpless anyway. It's all in the head.
Let's say we take 'retirement age' to 70. That way, 60 becomes the new 50. We are psyched into feeling younger and being accepted as part of the contributing population. This brings new energy to society, lesser strain in health and medical resources. If you feel younger, you feel less dependent.

Hey I may think differently when I reach 60. But I will approach that age differently. If I want to continue in my field for the rest of my life well past 60, I'll do that. Working from home, increasing bandwidth and other forms of communication tech are only paving the way for knowledge dissemination, irrespective of who it comes from. So why are we not tapping this huge resource - a grand evolved mindscape of people who have accumulated the wealth over the years, and can only offer so much more? I say we can reach pinnacles in our expertise levels, if we take forth the senior knowledge base to the next level.

Retire when you WANT TO

I have never really understood the concept of retiring at 60. What if you really enjoy your job and actually get better at it even after this golden number? People in creative, HR and advisory professions get better with years in these fields. At 60, if I am in good physical and mental condition, and don't see or show any signs of hanging up my boots, I may want to continue and actually get better at what I do. Three to four decades of experience brings great insight into the field. Employers will always benefit from all that experience, plus the connections and network created over years. I have spent hours chatting up with elderly people, and am only amazed at why I am the only recipient of the insight and knowledge.

Traditionally, retiring, or being made to retire, has other psychological effects. Even youthful and energetic people are made to feel old, which I have always thought was unfair. This is followed by making one feel the need for support from others around, making one feel helpless and dependent. Let retirement be an individual option. People in their youth can be made to feel old and helpless anyway. It's all in the head.
Let's say we take 'retirement age' to 70. That way, 60 becomes the new 50. We are psyched into feeling younger and being accepted as part of the contributing population. This brings new energy to society, lesser strain in health and medical resources. If you feel younger, you feel less dependent.

Hey I may think differently when I reach 60. But I will approach that age differently. If I want to continue in my field for the rest of my life well past 60, I'll do that. Working from home, increasing bandwidth and other forms of communication tech are only paving the way for knowledge dissemination, irrespective of who it comes from. So why are we not tapping this huge resource - a grand evolved mindscape of people who have accumulated the wealth over the years, and can only offer so much more? I say we can reach pinnacles in our expertise levels, if we take forth the senior knowledge base to the next level.