“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life,” he said. “Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

-Steve Jobs

Have u noticed that all great men all over the world have had a pull / liking for India? Most of them.

reading is my sanity. it brings me back home. when i don't read, i am not myself.

Rules and Life

It's strange learning the rules of life. No one teaches us as we are embarking it - think no one fully has understood. It seems more like on the job training - each lesson archived as soon as learnt. Make the mistakes earlier and that is better for you.

Existentialism is what I support. A person is what a person is - his/her life is as it is. There can be no right way in a thing - there is always only perspectives. If it feels right inside - you can live with it forever. If it doesn't - do not do it or else you are screwed for life !

Chaos by James Gleick is a riveting read. I recommend it to everyone. It made me see the world in a new light. I am often saddened by the fact that I have SO MUCH to learn. A lifetime seems short. Shucks ! I will know things for sure. One day.

Fractals

Mandelbrot Set - Created using Fractalizer.

Sublime in Chaos

I do not know the details at all but reading about chaos, pattern in chaos and sustenance of sublime in chaos just has triggered my thoughts. Each life has a pattern. The pattern repeats itself but not in the same way every time as there is a scope of 'the butterfly affect'. The pattern can be shaped on the input conditions. And that simply means that a pattern can be altered.

Is there a way that we escape the entire process altogether?

Le Battement d'ailes Du Papillon

I know that the movie was nice but today, frankly speaking it is today, that I know what it meant in the larger picture.


I have this uncanny pattern of (a) late discoveries (b) elaborate and very visible learnings (c) forgotten theories !! But it does not dampen the spirit, as the understanding of original fragment of idea / spirit / life / sound is a breathless delight !

Lorenz's Attractor

There have been very few instances where I have felt this sort of revelation or understanding of something. It almost seems magical. It feels as if how come I did not know this when it is SO simple. I have got goosebumps just reading all of that. And I know that I look for this when I read anything new. It is so beautiful that I can almost cry !

2010

It's January. Another year is here. So much happened in this decade - globally, professionally and personally. This decade rests in peace now.