the wow moment!

a modern zen poem endorsed by the hacker culture. 

 To follow the path:
    look to the master,
    follow the master,
    walk with the master,
    see through the master,
    become the master.

thats it. end of post. 

lets first define this thing called ‘professionalism’. i don’t know why is it so but these people give so much importance to clothes. a man dressed up in formals is considered more ‘professional’ than some one like me. why? dogmatized bozos! i mean lets just think, if you put hitler in charlie chaplins clothes, do u think he’ll start dancing on your TV screen? clothes DON’T make the man. one more damned feature : hero worship. when you talk to the boss of some big company, you must behave properly, your every word should be cautious et cetera et cetera. when was the last time you talked to your parents like that ? dogma turns smart people into biological machines. i suggest the next time you talk to a ‘big guy’ just imagine him itching, scratching and what not. doing so will re emphasize in your mind that he is still human. may be you will feel more comfy.

from what i can make out, most corporate cultures render people dumb and innovationless even though they claim the opposite. the strict hierarchy which they maintain is pretty much similar to the caste system of the ‘bad days’. only difference is it its now come out in a different way. the only two big companies who stay cool and are not dogma driven according to me are google and apple. people here are cool, they treat people around them as people. and the best part- they know something called ‘having fun’. the others need to be given a dose of ’simplicity’.

it was two months ago that i deleted my orkut and facebook accounts, the reason being very simple, ‘there are better things in life’. to be very honest, social networking is a ‘talent killer’. the same people who would have been out there writing blogs, playing football, working out at the gym, programming or even something as obvious as ‘thinking’ are now spending hours looking at weird profiles of fictitious girls. let go off the girls, people take a keen interest in reading scraps and the profile owner takes it upon himself as an ‘obligation’ to ‘increase the number of his scraps’.let me say that once again..there ARE actually better things in life.

to add to the fun, there are despo lover boys, stupid show offers(like me) and dumb senti girls who think they’ve all of a sudden got a chance to show themselves to the world. facebook! now this place is so very girly, girly would be a sweet word, its actually ‘auntiesh’, i wonder why people are actually ready to pay billions for it. for those of you who dont know, facebook rejected a billion dollar offer from yahoo and there was a rumor that google offered 2.3 billion. thats heights man!

to be very honest, i completely agree, it gives you a platform to find your long lost friends and build a network, but just think, if that friend actually deserved to be your friend, he would have never been ‘long lost’, you dont actually talk to your hundred odd friends, they are just ‘there’. you are actually wasting some of the best times of your life on stuff which doesnt deserve to be wasted so much time for. in two words, excessive social networking is for the ‘emotionally challenged’ and cool souls like you(?) and me should go for the BETTER things in life.