story June 22, 2009

There was a village and there was no rain at all.
It was dry. Land was dry.
Villagers finally decided that they will pray to God.
So every villager went to the church, hoping that it might rain.
Everyone came empty handed. Only a kid came with an umbrella.
Because only the kid believed that it’ll rain.

Kid in a story  …  is you.
Believe in yourself!
No matter what other says,
important is what your heart says!

“Social News” = “New Players Emerge”? June 13, 2009

In the early 19th century, the only way to get news was face-to-face communication but that started to change with the advent of printed newspapers and magazines in the 1900s.

Then came radio, followed by television which still dominate the medium but people are quickly moving away from traditional media as internet websites and social networks are fast becoming our primary sources of news and information.

This shift in the way we consume information has been brilliantly captured in these graphs by Thomas Baekdal who also predicts that traditional media reporting on newspapers, Television & Radio will disappear by 2020 to be replaced by social news.

Saying ‘NO’ June 8, 2009

If you’ve got talent, people want more of you. They ask you for this or that or the other thing. They ask nicely. They will benefit from the insight you can give them.

The choice: You can dissipate your gift by making the people with the loudest requests temporarily happy, or you can change the world by saying ‘no’ often.

You can say no with respect, you can say no promptly and you can say no with a lead to someone who might say yes. But just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

(by Seth Godin)

Dubai Urbanization Timelapse

Satellite images of Dubai over a long period of time, showing the “construction” of a massive artificial island shaped like a palm tree.