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Formula for success

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First rule for success is there are no rules and second rule is there are no formulas. Don't be mislead by the title, this is one person's interpretation with his level of (im)maturity. Now you read the statutory warning, let's dive into the details. We will be talking about three things that make success possible in anyone's life. Timing, Leverage and Discipline in the same order.  Timing, you can also call it fate. Life is not fair to everybody, suck it up. Some people are given fair shot than others at success. Some are lucky enough to be groomed towards it. This factor defines whether you will be born in  antilla  or Dharavi.   There is no bargain here, life hands it out to you and you have to live with it. We have seen rags to riches to stories, really great inspiration. But they are more of an exception than norm. Be inspired don't be fooled, just never accept fate's verdict, Keep fighting. Whatever anybody says Fate/Timing can turn your life upside d...

What is your DO NOTHING cost ?

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Elasticity will be the new Mantra of corporate  If something this COVID19 taught every corporate it is need for elasticity. It is always there but we never felt pressing need for it. Every company has a fair understanding on how much it costs to scale up X% or scaled down Y%. But no company ever needed to calculate the need for "Do NOTHING". What will be the cost of operation if we are in DO NOTHING mode ? Whether it is small business or big business now there should be a  DO NOTHING (pandemic)   clause. Like the US and China trade agreement have a clause, if there is a pandemic this trade agreement is NULL and VOID. What is the minimum cost you have to bear if there is no revenue source and how long you can sustain. Every financial adviser tells you to keep 3-6 months expenses in savings. Like that every company should know the DO NOTHING cost and keep that as cash flow. Just like stress test for banks each corporate need to test this new financial standard. In the ...

Random thoughts

In this blog I am writing about my experience from book  (Curious Mind) and documentary (Theranos) Thomas Alva Edison: Undoubtedly the greatest innovator with hundreds of patents in his name. It was interesting for me to particularly learn about his Light bulb innovation he marketed 4 years before it was ready. He sold the idea and made money out of it even when the bulbs were exploding due to heat. He figured it out before his investors exploded. Till now, I never know this side of Thomas Alva Edison. He was also the inventor of "Fake it till you make it" apparently :-) Another interesting observation I heard from Theranos documentary in HBO is about Dice analogy. If I ask you to spin the dice and tell me the number (without me watching the result), I will pay you based on the result. Ex: if you rolled 6, i will pay you $6. I am not Watching it so you have chance of cheating me. Imagine you are hooked up to Lie detector now. You will be caught in that test. Imagine diff...

Software Family

Here is an imaginary idea, what if you compare your family to software trends. Wives are like Data Analytics . Always big on numbers (shopping, remembering dates). Trends are always changing and you can not say to the market that you don't have analytics strategy (wife), competitors will start underestimating you if you do that. You say you have the latest and greatest tools and you don't want anybody to check on your data. Husbands are always like systems . It's not easy to modernize and you can't dump the systems altogether. You will be struggling with endowment effect. You customized systems (husband) a lot and it's not easy to find a replacement serving the same needs/requirements Sons are like AI . It is very difficult to understand and fascinating to have. You don't want them to fully self-autonomous and you can not control intelligence/effects once you let them out. Daughters are like cloud . You have to have cloud strategy for th...

Should I consider Hybrid cloud for my company ?

In this article I would like to analyze about Hybrid cloud options for the enterprise. By Hybrid cloud I mean one or more public cloud vendor/s and your own data centers (private or on-prem). We are not talking about multi-cloud scenario where you will be leveraging multiple public cloud vendors. We have several options in market as of today (4/15/2020). Almost every public cloud provider has a hybrid cloud offering. I would like to analyze the merits and de-merits of Hybrid cloud approach. Let's quickly look at possible options. Google Anthos, AWS Outpost, Azure Arc are top 3 public cloud providers offerings. Still you will be running your cloud vendor agents on your data centers, so you are dependent on them. you will still be paying for the virtual CPU usage and software support. Google Anthos support to open source is more convincing solution RedHat Openstack is another open source alternative. Didn't analyze Oracle cloud at customer, IBM RedHat Openshift, VMWa...

NRI visit funny skit

Script need to be for 6 participants. VIKARI NAMA TELUGU SAMVATSARADI SAMBARALAKI SWAGATHAM Bentonville Bhagya, Rogers Ramya cooking , food. kids taking care, pre school, grand parents. సీన్ 1: Bentonville బాలు America నుండి india బయలుదేరాడు . characters : Bentonville బాలు , Rogers Ramu. Bentonville బాలు:ఒరేయ్Rogers  Ramu  నేను మా వూరు 5 years taruvatha వెళ్తున్న Rogers Ramu: only expressions . abbooo .. Bentonville బాలు: మామ నాకు full exciting గా vundi Rogers Ramu: only expressions hmm.. Bentonville బాలు: Nri గా india velthe ఆ kicke వేరప్పా Rogers Ramu: only expressions hmm.. Bentonville బాలు : నేను ఇండియా వెళ్తున్న అని కుళ్ళు వెధవకి ,  పల్లె కి పోదాం పారు ను చూద్దాం చలో చలో... ---------------- సీన్ 2: Bentonville బాలు meets సత్తన్న simple life  . characters : Bentonville బాలు , సత్తన్న. Bentonville బాలు: ఏరా సత్తెన్న ఎలా వున్నావ్  ? సత్తెన్న: నాదేముంది మామ simple లైఫ్, నువ్వు అంటే Nri లైఫ్ , నువ్వే ...

ఆయినా నెను వొడిపొయె వాడ్ని కానే...

అలసి పొయా ఆగి పొనా, మిగిలిపొయ వొదులుకొనా, తగ్గిపొయా తప్పుకొన, ఆయినా నెను వొడిపొయె వాడ్ని కానే.... అదిమి పెట్టె భాధ తొటి, వదులుకున్న మనసు తొటి, ఇంత పొరటమెందుketi, ఆయినా నెను వొడిపొయె వాడ్ని కానే.... విరిగిపొయిన మనసు ఒకటి గాయపడ్డ దెహమొకటి పగిలిపొతున్న బుర్రతొటి గెలవలెని యుద్ధమందు విలువలెని బతుకు మొస్తు నెత్తురొడుతున్న కత్తి ఈడుస్తు ఇంకా ముందుకు సాగగలనా ఆయినా నెను వొడిపొయె వాడ్ని కానే.... ఛావు నన్ను పొందు వరకు ఉదయించె ఈ సుర్యుడితొ యుద్ధం చెస్తునే వుంట గాయలను ఓరుస్తునె వుంటా ఆయినా నెను వొడిపొయె వాడ్ని కాను.