Blissful journeys of Venky Rao
Future of workplaces are being redefined..
Another peice of excellent thought leadership on this topic.. this one is from Tracey Racette Fritcher, HCS of ServiceNow
Stay focused. Stay productive.. Stay tuned for innovation..
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It is here and now. Even as we read this message, the way we work is rapidly changing in a big way…
Changing the way we work, live, play and learn..This is the Vision statement of one of the best companies and the leadership team i had the opportunity to work for early on in my career.
The vision is now fast becoming a reality..
World is starting to realise and even expedite this change in the way we work, albeit pushed by an unfortunate pandemic situation.
We will have an innovative platform released soon to help manage this change. The platform and solutions will not only improve employee and customer delight, but also better shareholder value and societal impact.
Joining our human spirit and the innovative platforms, together the world will come out of the current challenging situation in a much better way than it entered into it..
Stay focused.Stay productive..Stay Tuned for Innovation…
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nature’s fury…
it is tough to handle when people mess too much with it.
No personal wealth, health or the nations GDP, economy, borders and military can save.
It knows no boundaries and has no partiality towards any social status, region, religion, caste, creed, gender and other..
It respects no political boundaries and doesn’t need to be politically correct.
Too much credence we give to the human progress (scientific or social) is an eyewash when the nature is furious and it will do what it does…
All it takes is one invisible new virus and/or microorganism to shake the entire humanity around the world rendering the entire social and scientific leadership helpless..
Times like this perhaps are a reminder to spend sometime going beyond physical sciences and understand the metaphysics and the philosophy of nature and our existence..
IMHO, the scientific world needs atleast few more decades to understand the concept of consciousness, intelligence, space research and life in the correct manner.
This advancement will come mainly with the help of
Human thoughts when expansive will lead to an inclusive mind.
The basis is in improving basic human ethics.
The talk of inclusion by focusing and pronouncing mainly on differences and divisions can lead to more fractures if one is not careful.
Lot of messages are being exchanged these days about government giving importance to private companies at the expense of public sector companies.
The plastic and styrofoam trash at the restaurants is a man made problem that should be addressable.
If we created the mess, we should be able to get out of it, atleast we hope.
In the name of progress, many times our civilization created short term band-aid solutions. We later understand that they are more messier than the problems they were supposed to address, if any.
Iam sure the better sense will prevail in the society and we realize some simpler solutions used earlier were better and we re”search” and innovate again 😅
The mother earth must be laughing. She has seen many civilization in its history over millennia biting to dust when the so-called progress was not inline with the greater good.
Its a cycle and we will also either get out of this junk pile or the mother knows how to discipline its children.
Fearlessness and decision making are part of a closed loop system feeding eachother.
Fear is a natural feature built into all the species to manage risk. Managing that fear for the best next course of action aka “decision making” is what most of the personality, leadership development that we develop over time.
Each of us make decisions all the time in our daily lives.
Postponing a decision aka “procrastination” is also a decision based on the circumstantial evidence and considered to be best course of action at that time.
Sometimes delayed decisions can lead to catastrophe similar to hasty decisions.
We need to strike that correct “balance” in this decision making. It seems even more important when it impacts larger good beyond self; e.g. teams, organisation, society and countries..
Several ways we continue to learn and enhance these as we journey along..
Few things that help us in this journey include
Some of these enhance our ability to deal with the two important things – fearlessness and decision making.
More details in the next post..
please share your thoughts as well..
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A true example of innovation and entrepreneurship at work.
Ethnographic study, passion, perceiverance, first pilot customer, continuous learning and innovation, customer delight surveys and empathy to achieve the intended outcome👍
The video is in one of the regional languages in India called “Telugu”. The innovator/entrepreneur featured in this video not conventional educated and spoke in his native language. He invented and innovated a machine for the benefit of his own community of weavers in this part of the world. He received several awards in India and also his life story was recently released as a feature film.
With the current basis of our science and technology, Artificial Intelligence in any foreseeable time will only address the augmented and narrow intelligence aspect.
We will further enhance the capability of human sensory power for the regular and challenged of the world. And enhance value in niche areas. This may also be the best use of the current state of AI work in the world.
For the true Artificial General Intelligence, the roots are to be found in Philosophy, Spiritual Sciences. Most likely in ancient scriptures of wisdom. It needs for us in this generation of scientists and technologists to shed the false ego and study those scriptures keeping aside the religious and cultural affiliations.
We haven’t even fully cracked the nature vs nurture puzzle. Genetic knowledge, Morals, Ethics,Reinforced learning, expert systems incl parents to teachers to life in general…
In my humble opinion, Artificial General Intelligence is not just another technological problem to solve but its about understanding human and leads to/by wisdom. It is not going to happen anytime soon with the current direction.
AGI is the ultimate pursuit but i believe the world will explore and benefit more from augmented / narrow intelligence in the next few decades.
The famous Bill Gates shared a post recently on LinkedIn that the reinvented toilets are a part of 6 billion dollars annual opportunity for companies that are first to market. And also that they have a potential to save millions of lives. Impressive, huh?
Thinking of toilets:
In recent times, for myriad reasons, toilets have found a huge fan base. They seem to inspire/break love stories
Not everything that comes out of science labs is the right thing in the long run.
Specially in case of food and healthcare, which directly impact the human and ecological wellbeing, long term effects have to be understood.
Unfortunately
My in-laws were moving to another home. I enquired with my mother-in-law about the progress of the packing. She said it is pretty much done since a lot of junk that got piled up over the years has been discarded. She was happy that the moving process helped them clear unnecessary junk that got piled up over the years.
Isn’t it the same with our lives in general as well?
Ah.. Statistics.. Statistics.. and damn Statistics..
This morning i open the newspaper in India only to find another one of those damn statistical reports covering
At the time Internal Combustion engine was invented about a century ago, there was a good use of electric cars. It is interesting to note that about 1/3 of all cars (though a small number) sold in USA were supposedly electric.
But Mr. Benz and Mr. Ford shaped the automobile industry with gasoline powered IC engines, and it all changed since then. In the past century automobile has become an essential daily use machine. But now people love to hate its technology because of pollution, choice of fuel among others.
Now a century later, we have come a full circle.
Recently in a discussion with friends, it was observed that many in software engineering and other professionals are posting and talking about philosophy and spirituality (not necessarily religion).
For the past few years as I study deeper into software engineering, science, technology, life sciences and society i noticed that there is no difference between these topics and spirituality.
In fact all of them were nothing but different aspects of the same study. Personally it was rather easy for me to understand and relate to the topics if I understood the essence, the common sense thread.
It is like “reaching the point where all roads end from where all roads began”.
Buildings typically have huge windows and damn we need maximum electricity to cool the rooms when sun is banging on those window panels.
‘Energy’ is something that our science got it wrong whether it is about powering our automobiles or homes and offices in general.
We are noticing the shortcomings and effects of our technology. And we need to change faster. It is going to be a difficult journey given the legacy of the current technology.
Whether it’s Mumbai, Shanghai, New York, Dhaka, Tokyo or any big city in the world, people are always in-hurry and on-the-run to make a living.
The amount of crowd or the commuting mode might change, but the crowded thoughts and mad rush inside each person’s head is perhaps similar.
Traditional indian design is more driven by nature and using harmony. We typically find it manifest in both form and function aspects of the designs.
For example, traditional indian architectural design methodology “vastu shastra” uses natural forces in design. Indian women wear “sari” uses natural motifs.
Symmetry and cyclical design elements also are dominant in indian design perhaps driven by its deep spiritual and philosophical background weaved into most of the life choices in traditional India.
Nature, symmetry, cyclical, fractal, harmony are the themes that come to my mind.
Most of the modern day scientists are humble enough to accept that they have barely scratched the surface. But, egoistic enough to disagree that some of the ancient philosophers had made better progress and cracked the code for the universe and humanity better. – Venky Rao
The 3E’s that we should be careful in this century.
Personally i think groceries, food and healthcare got to be localized to a great extent in the world. It not only improves the overall health of citizens but also reduces unnecessary carbon footprint.
Evolution and change is constant and what happens to the human species will only be known with time.
Continue reading “Artificial Intelligence: Are humans doomed?”
Interestingly while humans lived and identified themselves as citizens of their nations or kingdoms for a long time, passports became widespread only in the last century.
Recently in a discussion there was a beautiful song rendered by an artist urging people to save trees. Most of the appreciation from adults in the audience focused on the voice of the singer and the content was lost to despair.
I think one of the best way to get awareness to saving trees is
in search of truth 