Martin Luther King Day Quotes 15-1-2018 via Social Media

Posting in one place, MLK quotes that were shared via facebook, twitter, etc. on Martin Luther King Day 2018

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

“A social movement that only moves people is only a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“The time is always right to do what is right”

and finally

Companies to Watch 12-01-2018

Few companies getting some good traction.

Daily Ninja: They are digitizing the last mile in daily morning milk delivery. In addition to milk, they also deliver fresh bread, eggs, fresh chapatis, vegetables etc.  For now available in select apartments across Bangalore. Portfolio company Towness manages the non-milk backend for Daily Ninja.

GenWise Talent Development: This is India’s most experienced team in Gifted education and talent development. Gifted education is virtually non-existent in India, few companies such as Educational Initiatives and GenWise are addressing this segment. The needs of Gifted Students or academically precocious students can be called special needs as special as slow learners. The will have a residential summer school for gifted students in grades 7, 8, and 9 from May 6th-20th in Bengaluru.

Chai Point: Now available at Bengaluru airport, their Ginger Tea is to die for.  Before boarding the bus or cab this is my must do. The Chai Point ginger tea at Rs 40 is the least expensive of all other options at the airport.

 

Things I have learned from Paul Graham

(via 25 iq) some interesting things the author observed and leaned from Paul Graham, founder of Y-combinator

some I like were

For [a product or service] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn’t know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can.

The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity.

It’s better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy.” “Another corollary to the power law is that it’s OK to be lame in a lot of ways, so long as you’re not lame in some really important ways.

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4 Travel Articles of Note

Travel works on Exposure, integral part of my 3E equation. Whenever I evaluate a person i don’t know or a resume, I apply the 3E formula, Education, Experience and Exposure. Like my good friend Kiran aptly pointed out, one needs at least 2 Es to make any conversation interesting. The articles are

Why we Travel by Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

read article  Why we Travel >>>>

Don’t Date a Girl who Travels via lovethesearch

She’s the one with the messy unkempt hair colored by the sun. Her skin is now far from fair like it once was. Not even sun kissed. It’s burnt with multiple tan lines, wounds and bites here and there.  But for every flaw on her skin, she has an interesting story to tell.

So never date a girl who travels unless you can keep up with her. And if you unintentionally fall in love with one, don’t you dare keep her. Let her go.

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One from my own archives

29 life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight

some I like were

Living a good life is the best way possible to convince people

Nobody has it all figured out

More money will NEVER solve your problems

You don’t know what you’ve got ’till its gone

and finally

 

The most valuable lessons in life can never be expressed in black and white, but must be experienced

 

You can read all the 29 at   >>>>>>

 

5 lessons learnt after 5 years of traveling the world by Mark Manson

 

Happiness is common Human Dignity is not

 

The Best Part of the country is also usually the worst

 

Read all 5 and explanations of each >>>>>>

 

2 very interesting notes

Some points from a Twitter Conversation with Rishi Jaitly

Rishi Jaitly, India Market Director Twitter, talks to The Idea Exchange (via Indian Express)  read full interview   >>>>

He makes some good points that are worth noting,

Twitter was invented as an SMS status update service in California around 8 years ago.

We think of twitter as — this idea of a town square, where you first follow, and then you connect with others.

We describe twitter as a interest graph. People are coming to twitter to connect to brands, entertainment, etc

Twitter is the only platform in the world that is live, public and conversational.

76% of all users access twitter using a mobile phone.

We have a platform like no other, live, distributive. What you see is content that is organized and optimized for conversation.

The only platform in the world that is live, public and conversational.

The magic of twitter is actually in discovering content.

Twitter can bring anything to life in the first person,  that what audiences actually crave for.

Twitter presents an opportunity for brands to personify.

It’s nice to see that Mr Modi has understood the value of being human on twitter.

Mr Kejriwal getting slapped and tweeting about it 5 mins later… that represents a very nuanced understanding of twitter.

All of us at twitter believe in the power of the human voice and twitter is one of the most powerful examples of that.

We are the second screen of TV, one can make a case that TV is essentially a schedule of events, twitter on the other hand is a network of moments. Both TV and twitter are live, public and conversational.

Twitter is the world’s town square.

Peter Drucker on Marketing

(via forbes)

Long ago Peter Drucker, the father of business consulting, made a very profound observation that has been lost in the sands of time:

“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.”

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