Saturday, March 31, 2018

Birthday Party

Two pretty boys
They jumped with joy
At their birthday party

They wish not did
But come it did
Their wonderful party

Mummy's planning
Her joy organising
And Daddy's all over the place now

With you two steps nimble
The twosome tumble
Their joy knows no bounds forever

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Service industry will ride the AI wave with their focus on ROI

A lot of AI's success will hinge on ROI. That it's very costly is not debated and also explains why it's taken a long time to come along. An of course, also because it's still in the learning curve.
The venture capitalists and Angel investors will still keep looking for a lot of data and evidence before they would want to put their money. And that POC is too early to even exist.

So choosing the right use cases in terms of cost and feasibility will be critical. This is where I think companies with experience in doing due diligence before investing money will success i.e. IT service companies.
These companies are closest to the clients and know what will bring the biggest bang for the buck. The startups of the world will be either niche / narrow-focused which could lead to limited success.  Or disconnected to what are the biggest pain points companies will be willing to invest on AI to address.

The focus of the Service industry today should be to dig into their body of experience and rank use case candidates for AI implementation using a combination of Cost, Feasibility and Customer pain point as parameters.
They should validate this list with the relevant clients across domains.
This body of knowledge will be a gold mine using which the foundation of "Pragmatic AI" can be established.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Your space in this world

And when you've found
Your space in this world
You breathe the oxygen
Out of the air

And when you've tasted it
What you most like
There is nothing that can
Take out the happiness from smile

Monday, March 19, 2018

The reason I'm a poet

If it weren't for the sensual wholeness of Kalidasa
If it weren't for the love of rains and nature in Tagore
If it wasn't for the Bhakthi in Sankara

I wouldn't be the poet that I realise to be today

Saturday, March 17, 2018

The lack of driving discipline

Driving indiscipline, especially among the cab drivers, is growing. Due to this, even those who've recently returned from foreign trips with the resolve to drive the same defensive way here, lose hope and go back to their old ways.

If you show the lane change signal for example, the car behind steps up the accelerator so he can block you, instead of letting you come this way. To add effect, he'll also blow the horn to confuse and suggest that he's already fast and you mustn't get this way.

Then there is the usual scene where if one is waiting on the lane to turn right at an intersection, cars will come from other lanes and get into yours when the traffic lights turn green. Complete disrespect for those following the rules and staying in queue.
Today I saw similar behaviour when coming out of a parking lot, in a school no less. Parents fail to realise that they are indirectly teaching their children to take short cuts this way.

There is nothing in life that can achieved through short cuts. Those who get ahead this way - and I mean not just on the road - will only get blocked and end up frustrated, apart from having already suffered the pricking conscience.
Have we really forgotten these basic lessons? Or lost trust in them??!!

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Forget it

It is not so hard, this Life that we live
We confuse and collate, and don't know what to say
The happiest life is by, forgetting what we don't need
We hang on and plot, and invite diseases within

Saturday, March 10, 2018

12 years a slave leaves a gnawing heart..

I feel as if all of humanity's remorse for generations past and those to come will not even be enough to pay for the sufferings endured during slavery..

The movie is gut wrenching and very disturbing.. That it's based on facts makes it credible.

Why did humanity have such persecution available in the system.. And this is just perhaps a sample.. Similar terrible things have happened across the world and in India..

It is only now we read these in the papers and prevalent media.

No wonder there is so much anger simmering even today.. There are pained souls who seek solace.. May they find it in moksha, bliss and peace than retribution and wrath.

Why social distribution fails

Why this world became non residable for purists
Why idealism is mocked, by people to whom entrusted
Why there is no trust, and aggrandizement the norm

If the laws and economy doesn't encourage distribution and hard work
Isn't it time to find a new way

Wednesday, March 07, 2018

North East merging in India

Today was reading an article of how trafficking of North eastern girls is rampant in Mizoram and Manipur. Where three sets of agents first lure them to Myanmar, then change their identity and then post them in Singapore as someone else respectively...

When I go around in Bengaluru, I'm impressed to see so many North eastern. Since they resemble Asian foreigners, there is a sense of awe and class bestowed automatically by the rest of us with the hinterland Indian looks. I'd prefer that than the erstwhile violence a few years back against North Easterners in Bengaluru leading them to leave the city en masse.

Connect the two above and my advice is: There are enough jobs and opportunities within India itself. Please North eastern brothers and sisters, do not fall into the lure of fast money and put your lives at risk.

Let's integrate as a nation. As you migrate within, you'll be embraced and understood better. You'll prepare the nation to be more tolerant of immigration from foreigners be it Africans or Caucasians. You'll marry within the country and lead to the cross pollination of cultures. This is very much needed if India is to stay as one country than disintegrate under foreign rule as has happened many times in the past!

Sunday, March 04, 2018

Confidence

Why the jitters, when I am good
To talk to present, to express confidence

Fake it till you make it
And make it you always did

I'm not the doer, why then any anxious
They all are me, imbibe as fact is

I enjoy it, I want to do it
I am blessed, by Saraswathi herself

It'll all be well, settle in this trust

The Nature of World

No amount of life is enough for peace
Who is right, nobody actually is wrong
There is only one way, for freedom from Samsara
The path of Moksha, of Thyaga, Vairagya

This world is thus, it's not those who inhabit
It's nature is opposites, it's neither you nor me
In a different World, where all around it's perfect
There will be no need, of happiness or sadness

Saturday, March 03, 2018

Crimson Moon

My confused child, called you the sun at night
And why not, you looked like the sun at dusk

Though not with, the painted clouds
Your glory was, an incomparable beauty

I bid you well, your burning haze
Oh take some rest, come out bright and white

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