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Chasing the tail lights with Mr.Jobs

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I usually don't read a book just because everyone else is reading it - it makes me thinks conventionally, corrupts my thought process into more of a mass one, not the kind I usually love to live with. But if I can take the liberty of paraphrasing Steven Levy from " In The Plex ", with his new book, Walter Isaacson made me chase everyone elses' tail lights, and for the first time, I am kind of proud at being conventional. From today, I am going to start reading Steve Jobs in Hardcover, which has gotten shipped at a 50% pre-release discount, from Indiaplaza (Yes, Flipkart ; they pipped you this time!), a couple of days back.  Now if you please excuse me, I have to go to get some carrot juice for Mr. Jobs! It's Halloween after all!

Old Versus New

To build a new system, you don't compete with the old one. You build a new system and make the old system obsolete - Buckminster Fuller Too often, we end up spending too much time staring at the old system, trying to improvise it for the new world, that we lose the race even before we start running it.

All that glitters

is not gold. However, its better to dig and figure out that it isn't gold than not to dig at all. I know life is too short to do all the mistakes by yourself to learn from them. But then, at times you just can't rely on someone to do a mistake for you to learn.   You got to pay your own dues, to avail the services of genie called Mr. Experience.

Value System

There comes a time in the life, when you realize that your value system is different from that of your parents'. Guess, then it is the time to start all over again!

Don't Shit

just because you know (or you think, you know) that someone can clean it after you. Instead do it right the first time. And if you can't do that, just get rid of that responsibility doyen which doesn't allow you to think without being corrupt, biased, irrational. That's the least you can do to push the humanity to be a part of thought based approach of work as against factory based approach of work.

Sony Mix - Addressing the long tail of music (traditional media)

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I don't even need to speak how Apple changed Music Industry using iTunes. Most importantly, they tapped the long tail of songs which were almost impossible to sell for the Brand labels and impossible to buy for music affectionados. They end up contributing to roughly 10%-15% of the iTunes music sales now. To understand in more detail as to long tail has contributed to iTunes Marketplace , check out Ryan Hupfer 's graph.    In India, a similar effort in now being forged by Sony Mix , the new music channel by Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment ). In their "About Us" they explain their product positioning as "Moving into the gap created by erstwhile music channels rechristened as ‘youth channels’ and other music channels dishing out non-music content as interstitial programming, we are confident that viewers shall enjoy MIX as a channel that remains true to the music genre." A good stab at MTVs and Ch

Why did the last person leave?

Could be a thorn of a question, especially if not asked. Better still put a positive spin, and ask as Business Insider says , "Am I replacing someone or is this a new position?"