A Long Rant

I was not kidding when I titled this post A Long Rant. I have a lot to write about with no easily evident correlation. Please do not bother reading it unless you have the time and patience to tolerate it.

Karteek says technology is better than humans, because when you work with technology, it can't screw you. At the first go, it seemed logical. More so for a demi geek like me.

However, some more pondering and I figured out that working with humans is better. I think I will take up the irritating task of cleaning up someone else's mess N times to be delighted 1 time by a person's ingenuousness and initiative. Nothing is more inspiring than seeing someone (under what you would like to believe to be your leadership) do better than you could ever imagine.

Talking of people, another dinner table conversation shed some light on why people crave for power. Did you ever realize that one reason people crave for power is because they like to hob nob with the powerful? 

Or is it beacuse us or some of us discussing this over dinner never had the opportunity to do so? Would we also be of the same ilk if we were not nobodies but somebodies? Or better still if our parents were somebodies? Would we behave differently if our parents also could arrange foreign soujourns for us and we could amongst ourselves discuss how best we could utilize dad's connections?

I would be wrong in hastily blaming such people. For I do not know, what I would have done. This brings me back to my oft repeated wish. I want the power to create parallel universes (Memory allocation, garbage collection, dangling pointers would be problems but still....). I would create a parallel universe where my dad was the home secretary and see how it changed.

If I could create a parallel universe, I would also create one where I would have stuck to the Grid One project under Prof. Rahul Banerjee. I think I would have performed better with technology notwithstanding my growing expertise in linking people and fighting all varities of fire. I think I have an inherent knack of making sense of technology. Probably creating it, but not implementing it.

Quitting the Project Grid One in an unprofessional manner brings me to the fact that I have been a quitter all my life. I haven't finished books that I set out to read, I didn't finish my own website, I haven't seen all the Westerns... 

Well, at the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS Pilani I am trying to give my best! Hopefully, by the time I leave BITS Pilani, there would be one good legacy I'll leave behind here.