Future of office cubes!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Cannibals and Vegans
Two weeks before, I got to read all the three Lecter series book from Thomas Harris.
- Red Dragon
- Silence of the lambs
- Hannibal
All the three stories have similar characters with one underdeveloped brain/character, one rational thinking person and ofcourse the transcendal, Dr. Lecter. The author has done an excellent job in not pinpointing the reason for all three types of behaviour and rather left room for our imagination. There is one more book by the same author "Black Sunday", terrorist plot to blow stadium, during SuperBowl.
Same week I got to read iCON by Jeoffrey young (unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs) Well, the way the author has portrayed the protagonist in this book, I could not resist comparing with the transcendal character of Thomas Harris.
Well, the difference being one vegan and the other a cannibal.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
November -14
Part of the world where I live in, this day is celebrated as Children's Day. There were some arts/crafts exhibits done by the kids and I was going through that place. Pretty much all the adults gathered over there, went towards the kids and paid lavish praises towards their work.
Well, I was surprised to see this. You can encourage the kids by praising, at the time I feel their mistakes should also be pointed out for their improvement. I worried that praising shoddy workmanship would cause the kids to stall in their development. Why would you improve when you’re already impressing the people, who gives ice-cream/candies to you. whereas in real world, no one praises low quality work and so they should be prepared for world at earlier stages, instead of going through this painful cycle at their later stages.
Determined to set things right, I waited until one set of parents was distracted by the other. Their offspring stood in front of a wall of alleged art, admiring his work. I leaned over and whispered, “You call that Elephant, but it looks like some sort of truck. Are you sure?" Naturally he started crying. But I too cry when I learn. So I figured I was on the right track. I slipped out the side door before his parents could discover who had saved their son from a future of mediocrity.
Well, I am too determined to change small portions of this world, but not interested in taking credit for that.
Well, I was surprised to see this. You can encourage the kids by praising, at the time I feel their mistakes should also be pointed out for their improvement. I worried that praising shoddy workmanship would cause the kids to stall in their development. Why would you improve when you’re already impressing the people, who gives ice-cream/candies to you. whereas in real world, no one praises low quality work and so they should be prepared for world at earlier stages, instead of going through this painful cycle at their later stages.
Determined to set things right, I waited until one set of parents was distracted by the other. Their offspring stood in front of a wall of alleged art, admiring his work. I leaned over and whispered, “You call that Elephant, but it looks like some sort of truck. Are you sure?" Naturally he started crying. But I too cry when I learn. So I figured I was on the right track. I slipped out the side door before his parents could discover who had saved their son from a future of mediocrity.
Well, I am too determined to change small portions of this world, but not interested in taking credit for that.
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