Circle of life...

1. you see a sexy girl
2. you go out
3. you get married
4. you become a managing director
5. you see a sexy girl

quite accurate, wouldn't you say ?

Industrial Stories

After reading a series of books based on the 'inside-track' of certain industries:

• hotel
• airline
• luxury beach resort

one can not help but to wonder, whether this trend can extend to most/all industries and to what extent this would be appealing to some/many/most? people.

Well for the IT industry the following pic would be a great illustration of typical and recurring situation in many/most? offices.

(Re)discovering...

the past. Who said that travelling back in time is not possible? No I can't go back to school - they wouldn't have me, but I can discover deep almost forgotten memories , let alone discover now 10-20 years later things I have missed baaack then.

Latest such discovery: Kim Wilde. Not bad for her kind of music - not my cup of tea or to quote a friend 'I would listen to it, but I would not buy it' (see economics).

Obvious 80s influence, but it is impressive: which of the today's pop-divas will be issuing albums 25 years from now? We shall see..

The World politics...

in a picture worth of a billion rather than the usual thousand words.

Behold:

Desires...

in an imperfect world. That is really what economics are.

Yes there are truck loads of definitions, works etc. but based on a couple of books and certain discussions with friends it sinks in more and more.

The world is imperfect and it has to be - nothing in the universe is. Just physics...

Therefore economics which are based on scarcity - take scarcity away and there are no economic problems (well maybe overpopulation)- will be imperfect as well.

And who needs perfection ? No one really - the key is reaching a state where one can say good enough.That sounds plausible. If only it wasn't as possible as someone catching their shadow...

The Art of...

...anything really. Granted we do have the 'fine' arts

• painting
• sculpting
• photography
• theater
• cinema

(non exhaustive) but what about others ?

Architecture is an interesting one as it is probbaly the most durable (see pyramids,parthenon etc). Is it science, art or both?

If art implies creativity isn't engineering an art? Maybe less glossy -granted, but still...
Dictionary.com gives 16 definitions for the word 'art'.

I will stand to only two:

1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance
2. skill in conducting any human activity

Any skill developed in an individual more than average makes that individual an artist in that particular field.

Everyone has a field s/he excels at (even if that field is well stupidity for some) so we are all artists...

Hm perhaps it is time to change my business card from the universal in my area "Consultant" to "Artist"...

Book of Faces...

Social networking sites - Myspace, Facebook, Tagged you name it.

Do the add value ? True value as opposed to a score count: "I have more 'friends' that you do.."
Is it for acquaintances or for friends ? There is a saying that a happy man needs only the fingers of one hand to count his friends and a heart to measure them...

Clearly not the case with the above sites. Is it fashion ? Now that we 'all' got broadband connections zillion of pictures to share and show off our trips, concerts, conquests...

Time will tell....