Symphony of Synergy

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

The world moves on whatever happens ,survival of the fittest is the norm and COVID has proved this and is continuing to show each passing day.

When you even think towards innovation consider yourself a class apart and don’t stop.

-Anonymous

 I have always felt that innovation and creativity is above all skills, which is prevalent in this world.

If you ask me, why do I feel innovation and creativity is above all skills.

Well, it is not tough to answer this question, let me narrate a small story.

There once lived a man in the United States who was bent on making the lives of the labour class a bit easy he tried to do that by inventing machines. His first patented invention was the drilling machine which was used to cut rocks.

Things moved on, and he moved to Boston, he was motivated by one of his friends to invent something useful to the textile community. The result of his determination and genuine challenging attitude was the sewing machine. 

This is the story of one of the brilliant American inventors, and his name is Isaac Singer famous for his original patented design of first mechanical sewing machine. Even today, his unique design is used in all the sewing machines in the world.

Whichever  field you try to peek in, there will be the inception of how that  concept came into existence, and the beginning starts with a thought an epiphany. The end may be a musical tune, a beautiful song, a new dance form ,a beautiful painting, or a magnificent vehicle or a machine; again it starts from a mindset which is ready to BEGIN!

The mindset

My thoughts on mindset are that it is actually not that you arrive at, it is a state of a person, for example, we all have heard that happiness is a state and they say it’s up to you whether you want to be happy or not! Well, I would say the same thing for the innovation in you it is if you wish to be in that state or you choose to be a non-thinking individual.

when you look at a problem usually there are three types of reactions which can be seen, the first one just look at it as a problem and think of a solution ; the second one concludes that this is an unsolvable one and move on.

Yet there is another way, you look at the problem and try to understand why it happened at first place?  and then try to resolve it and try to ensure it won’t reoccur, well this is innovation, you looked at the problem, and you used your past experience. Finally, you came up with a new solution of your own by combining all your thinking power what a symphony of synergy!

Apollo 13 was one among the many human-crewed moon missions. Still, on the way to the moon the oxygen tank exploded, they CAPCOM heard “Huston we have a problem” on the radio. Still, the ending of this incident has a silver lining all the astronauts safely escaped the disaster and landed back on earth.

What made this possible a brainy group people both former astronauts, Capcom pilots and some graduates from MIT and their innovation in converting the lunar landing module into a command module, which helped them successfully reach earth and come out of one of the most dangerous situations in space travel history.

Monotony is typical in each of our lives, whether in your job or in your personal life, would you like to come out of it and try something new which would make you feel fresh and alive and gives you that aww. Feeling and satisfaction of a day well spent in our life, that moment is called the innovative bliss.

I have experienced this bliss in some points of my life; I used to feel this even if could fix a jammed lock because we put our mind on to it when we try to solve problems or hurdles in life through innovation.
 

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.

-Steve Jobs.

Think out of the box, it helps! Don’t get pushed by people and take no for answers, pencil pushers are always around to just show you down, it is left to you and your innovative streak to spring back up.

I would quote Matt Damon from the movie Martian “You just begin, solve one problem, and solve another and if you solve enough problems you get to come home.”

Before I end, I would like to thank one of my guides and friend who suggested me to write about this.

Thanks a lot for your time and Enjoy the rest of your day.

Helios.

Modern Primates

Hello Readers

Hope you all are doing well and staying home safe.

Search engines and social media are places where people enjoy bliss by giving up their privacy to the big guys! You are there in their servers forever now!

-Elon Musk a whistleblower.

I am sitting on my terrace, looking at the sky and listening to the sounds of nature it makes me feel light and contended thanks to mother nature.

The origin of humans is from apes and gibbons, so today's read about do we still carry those strains in us and also do these qualities show up in these modern civilised economies?

Let us begin, we are living in the deep ocean of people, things and technology.

Nearly two decades ago, communication was not so accessible. We were still very much dependent on the telephone, long-distance telegrams Morse code, telex and so on. Then came the worldwide web which changed this world forever a person in New-Zealand just sends an email to a person in Russia it is relayed to him momentarily no delays at all, yes the modem and the underwater internet cables across the pacific do the trick!

Even if you take these past three months when the whole world is fighting the virus, we all are still connected through virtual video applications, well this is pretty deep! Million-dollar businesses are going through virtual teleconferences, yes we all accepted the change and have got accustomed it to it pretty well I must say. But all this with the primate brain!

Why do I think so, I have seen and continue to see a few oblivious situations around me in which I see presence of these attitudes among us.

There are these profound changes this world underwent post the worldwide web. One such paradigm was the social media, I think the bubble burst from the ORKUT era, not sure how many of us still remember this social networking website which was hosted by google.

Followed by the mail group culture by yahoo, which was meant to share random jokes and pictures at various friends and family levels.

Fast-forward to Feb 2004 something important happened in this world which would change this world forever in the way it communicates.

A new company was born and called Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Harvard College students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Project for their course this was a website created to upload and share student profiles in their college.

The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students. Still, it was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League. Gradually most universities in the United States and Canada, corporations, and by September 2006, to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older could open an account in Facebook.

Until now, Facebook was a simple website where most of the university students in and around North America could upload profiles and share their pictures. After 2006, Facebook was gradually left open to the public as stated earlier people with relevant credentials could use Facebook and in 2012, Facebook filed for an initial public offering!

The monkey and the paradigm.

People changed the way they communicate the gaps in the world have shrunk. Now you have a world beyond the one you live, and that is the world among the server farms. The network of Facebook where we try to express ourselves with all our photos and videos almost everything about our life which we decide to share it with the world, we like comment and share others posts and paint our walls with a quote and birthday wishes.

Alas, the rosy garden of Eden of social media is finally polluted!  By the monkey brain and has brought down the wrath of hatred, bias and societal selfishness into this equation. people are enraged with sharing things without thinking whether it has a meaning or not, the chest-thumping attitude against each other, the doctors call it social media psychology!

The party men use such platforms to spin-off elections by posting political posts, Oh my lord! The whirlwind of whats app groups supporting these parties throwing grenades of hatred and disrespect among people, which are now a way of living and a new way of marketing, tagged as social media marketing.

This opens up into search engines feeding the search data to these social media companies to understand and spin-off consumer behaviour with it!

So the evolution from a significantly connected world to mutual hatred and fake news promoting social media!

Whom do we blame? Zuckerberg, the creators of the internet, the creator of smartphones high-speed processor manufacturing companies or networking companies? The answer is a big no it is the monkey brain within us which has to be blamed! The attitude overthinking ad being street smart in the places where it is not required and converting an innovation given to us into something really gruesome.

courtesy google images

 

Rest assured the social media companies are getting more prosperous more vibrant by the day, yes, they are in the data selling business, and we all have given all our data to these companies and hardly care about our privacy anymore.

Let's try to change it by spreading positivity wherever and whichever way possible also try to limit ourselves in slogging on social media and spend time as productively as possible.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Helios.