I asked this question to my network -
How to bring simplicity in to the design of products – take complexity out and not the capabilities?
Here are a couple of interesting answers I got -
David Marshall wrote back -
It should all be driven by a proper elicitation process to define system requirements. This should result in [...]
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Take complexity out and not the capabilities
Posted in Creativity, Decision Making, Design, Entrepreneurship on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My Creative Journey: Part 4 – Buddha
Posted in Art, Coaching, Creativity, Drawing, Fun, Happiness, Life, Personal, Perspective, Sketch, Spiritual on June 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Here is a simple sketch of Buddha as I “see” it. Just looking at this sketch brings so many different emotions and thoughts. Sketching Buddha was very peaceful.
This is the fourth sketch in my series of simple “starter” sketches. The other three were Baby Hanuman, Flower Vase and A View from Up Here.
The MONK and the MONKey
Posted in Balance, Book, Bottom of Pyramid, Coaching, Creativity, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, HoMe, Leadership, Life, Personal, Professional, Psychology, Review, Spiritual, Venture Capital on June 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I read Randy Komisar’s “The Monk and the Riddle“. I just could not stop when I started reading it. By the time I finished reading it, the clock struck 4 AM. I think it was a night well spent.
Randy Komisar is a Venture Capitalist with Kleiner Perkins. This book tells Randy’s evolution (thus the word [...]
Gates and Jobs: Great Show
Posted in Balance, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Life, Personal, Professional, Psychology, Spiritual on June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gates and Jobs shared a stage and it was quite a show (better than a Bollywood thriller).
One thing that is quickly evident from this – Jobs comes across as a person who still has a lot to prove while Gates looks deeply satisfied like a Sadhu. While Gates looks like entering Sanyas , Jobs is [...]
My Creative Journey: Part 3
Posted in Art, Balance, Coaching, Creativity, Drawing, Fun, Happiness, HoMe, Leadership, Life, Personal, Perspective, Psychology, RandomThoughts, Sketch, Spiritual on June 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here is the third post in my series of sketches. The first one was the view from my patio and the second one was Baby Hanuman. This one is a flower vase that I sketched just before it was broken by accident. It was good that I captured it in some form before we lost [...]
My Evolution As A Sketcher – Part 2
Posted in Art, Balance, Bottom of Pyramid, Creativity, Drawing, Entrepreneurship, Fun, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Personal, Perspective, Sketch, Spiritual on May 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Here is the next sketch that I tried. This is the second one in my series of posted sketches – first one was a view from my patio. This one is a Baby Hauman sketch based on Indian animation film Hanuman. Pardon some of the shade which is because of scanner issues. More sketches to [...]
My Evolution As A Sketcher
Posted in Art, Creativity, Drawing, Entrepreneurship, Fun, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Personal, Perspective, Sketch on May 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I recently started sketching again (after 18 years). It had been a great experience.
Here is one of the first sketches that I came up with. It is a view from the patio of my townhouse in the University Village. I know it is far from perfect. It is a beginning (restart actually). I will post [...]
Happiness: How To Find It?
Posted in Balance, Creativity, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Personal, Psychology on May 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
HAPPINESS – It is the single most important goal of human life. All our actions could be traced to “seeking happiness”. While happiness is so important and sought after, it is not properly understood. There is a huge element of subjectivity involved and that makes it hard to define, measure, monitor and fix.
Uncertain Future: Our [...]
Harmony in Decision Making and Happiness
Posted in Balance, Coaching, Creativity, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Personal on May 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We make so many decisions everyday, ranging from as simple as which brand of coffee to drink to as significant decisions as whether to use nuclear weapons against Japan.
How do we make these decisions? What is our personal compass that we use to navigate through this web of decisions? And, Is that compass directing us [...]
Khosla’s Pursuit of HappYness
Posted in Balance, Bottom of Pyramid, Coaching, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Life, Personal, Professional, RandomThoughts, Venture Capital on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I met and listened to Vinod Khosla, a renowned Venture Capitalist, at a US-India Venture Capital Association meeting. His speech gave a glimpse inside his mind. It was a very personal speech unlike his previous speeches. Khosla talked about some of the decisions he made in life and why he made those decisions.
Move to India [...]
My First Business
Posted in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Life, Personal, Professional on May 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I started my first business at the age of 9 (1984). It was a comic books rental service. I did that during my summer vacations. My first partner was my childhood friend Amit. I got all his comics, combined them with my collection and we had our starting inventory of books. We had books including [...]
Discipline fosters creativity
Posted in Balance, Coaching, Creativity, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Fun, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Personal, Perspective, Psychology on February 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Popular Belief: Discipline hinders creativity.
Reverse: Discipline fosters creativity.
The most prevalent way to depict creativity is Einstein’s photo with his shabby hairstyle and chaotic looks. Creativity does not always come packaged as this confused picture. The other well-behaved gentleman shown above is C.V. Raman – another physics Nobel Prize winner. It is a different face of [...]
Dealing with Darwin
Posted in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, RandomThoughts on February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“In sume, if the past few decades were heralded as the revenge of the nerds, the next few will be the revenge of the liberal arts graduates.”
HopeLab: Its all in the brain …
Posted in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Happiness on January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I attended a class on “Creativity and Innovation”. Our guest speaker Pat Christen (President: HopeLab) described some fascinating insights into how they are working on ReMission, a video game for teens and young adults suffering from cancer.
Creativity is sometimes applying the old concepts. She described how she applied the same old concepts she learnt [...]
Teaching …
Posted in Coaching, Creativity, Entrepreneurship on December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
An Eastern saying … (food for thought)
“The teacher and the taught together create the teaching”.
Thoughts … by Napolean Hill
Posted in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Personal, Professional on December 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.
Seek expert cousel before giving up. “Three feet from Gold” story.
The greatest success comes just one step beyond the point [...]
An ideal life – devoid of contradictions
Posted in Creativity, Personal, Professional, Spiritual on November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Consider this -You wake up in the morning suffused with an ineffable feeling of joy, a deep sense of well being. You go to work, to a job you love so much that you would pay for the privilege of doing it. You labor intently but are so focused that time flies by unnoticed. At [...]
