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Presidential Debate Sep 2020

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           This blog is about the First Presidential debate in 2020. Between Donald Trump and Joe Biden for 90 mins and 6 topics on the table. Joe Biden is coming with 78% stats of winning the debate. These kind of stats proved wrong in 2016. My prediction was Trump will be like Bull in the China shop, will make Biden do at least few forced mistakes. But Biden controlled the debate decently and didnt commit major mistakes. It was interesting to watch the debate after Trump tax returns news from NewYork Times few days back. Chris Wallace from fox was the moderator of the debate.  Supreme Court Nominee: Donald Trump said he won the election and elections have consequences. She is outstanding student and nominee. Joe Biden said American people should have a say, so supreme court nominee should be selected later. Biden thinks Affordable care act might be impacted with this supreme court nominee. Trump started offensively. Biden started assertive, said he is democratic party in one context.

TikTok ... TikTok ... TikTok

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This article is about the TikTok and future of social media. Is the TikTok deal going to be any threat to Facebook group ? Is TikTok going to shape up the social platforms dominance any differently than what it is currently? We will see in below article. Please note we won't discuss the internals of TikTok deal with Oracle/Walmart. Oracle has enough cash and strong desire to grow its cloud business. It can do anything to make Oracle cloud one of the top 3. This deal for Oracle more in terms of cloud and for Walmart it means more in terms of dominating advertisement platforms. TikTok is more or less like Vine. If you don't remember what it is, its short video social media. You can follow friends and celebrities and make your own videos. Vine was doing almost the same thing except it stuck to 6 seconds video for long time before making the duration longer. It came at a time may be people were not into visual. TikTok started getting popular in China around the same time Vine slowe

Impossible guy - Richard Wright

This blog is about the impossible guy Richard Wright, you can visit him at  https://www.iamrichardwright.com/   He is three time stage 4 cancer survivor and Iron Man finisher.   The reason I am calling him impossible is because of two things. ONE you need to have tough state of mind and positivity to overcome terminal cancer that many times. TWO , Finishing Iron man is an extra ordinary thing for a healthy human being.  It is a triathlon event of completing 2.4 mile swim , 112 mile bicycle ride and 26.1 miles run. All in one day. So you will be working close to 17 hours on that day. This is couple of months exercise  for me in one day. DNA is NOT as important as DNS(Did not start) and DNF( did not finish). Succeeding from failure is learning from it. failing at failure is not learning from it. Preparation is the Key to anything. Nobody can be YOU, nobody replaces you, you just be you. You can't control competitors, external conditions, all you have control over is your thought. You

Epic vs Apple

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This article is about Epic Games vs Apple ongoing battle and suing each other. Apple and google are accused of strip mining i.e not having burden of creation and minting profits with commission. Technically you will invent a game and market it , apple store and google play store will make easy 30% on your innovation.  Let's look at the parties involved in this battle and their revenue, valuation and commission charges. Category                                    Epic                               Apple                                 Google Revenue in 2019                     4.2 Billion                    260 billion                          45.8 billion Valuation in 2020                    17 Billion                     2 Trillion                            632 billion Commission                              12%                                 30%                                      30% This is battle of elites, this is not a case of David vs Goliath. Its a common practice since

Quotes from recent books I read

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Few quotes from Tipping point and winner takes it all books. Craig Shapiro: Very interesting thought for the all the entrepreneurs.  When people are in group, the responsibility for acting is diffused. Every person has inner and outer personality. Inner personality is the real one. Plutocrats: whose power comes from his wealth. If we want things to stay as they are, then things have to change. The only better thing than being fox is being fox asked to watch over hen. Philanthorcapitalists: Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, who derived money from capitalism and using it on philanthropy in their later days. Entrepreneurs are problem solvers at heart, so they use their money on philanthropy much better than people who gained their wealth through generations. World continue to innovate and remain short on progress.  Everybody should be able to work wherever they want whenever they want not because they need to. For corporates its not enough to be in market they want to dominate it, its not en