http://www.captiveadaptations.com Captive Complexity triggers Adaptive Simplicity and vice-versa Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:14:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have resisted the temptation to use PDA's for data communication for a long time. I use a Palm treo for the past 3 years, but mostly as a voice device, and a PDA. I have never been compelled to use it for data. Its mostly the inertia associated with ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=165 Quote of the day. "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living". -Omar Bradley. Google Omar Bradley for more. http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=164 Google is a favorite. If you are interested in analyzing human behaviors and want to read people's minds, there are all sorts of trending tools these days. One of the most interesting is the Google auto-completion. Type for example "George Bush is" in the search box, as shown below. Well, his ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=163 I am an optimist. Trust me. I am a person who always says, "Shit happens everyday -- literally -- that doesn't mean we stop all other activities for the rest of the day, we move on. We carry on cheerfully and try to add meaning to our everyday lives, no ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=162 The pain that the current Global meltdown has caused financially is well known, well covered by Main Stream Media and well documented, but the grief it is continuing to inflict on our collective psyche, is little understood. Today, on NPR I heard about Virtuous Recession. Apparently, most companies are even capitalizing ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=161 I am no Economist, but I understand basics of how Economies work. Most private banks in developed countries are today insolvent. Below is also the current market cap of most banks in the US. Click to Enlarge So while we are trying to solve their insolvency, there is nothing we can expect ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=160 No, the image below is not Lincoln. Yes, that is Mr. President elect, and I am trying to link Obama to Lincoln. Am I the first one to do so ?. No. Mr. President-elect, the man who will be Mr. President today, himself started drawing parallels to Lincoln as early as ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=159 I recently wrote about Execution and Art of Getting Things done. This is an anti-post for that post. The flowchart below is truth laid bare on mostly what we all do, in our internet infested lives. We all love such flowcharts, don't we ? Click to Enlarge http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=158 One of my friends asked me the other day, what is the best Investment Strategy, that works all times ? I thought for a while and it occurred to me that my parents, their parents, possibly my great grand parents, always followed this model. 20% - Gold 20% - Fixed Deposit 25% - Land ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=157 Corporate India seems to have been institutionalized by Corporate America. While I am an ardent supporter of free market capitalism, I also always have been an advocate of "Simhavalokana Krama" - which essentially translates to "To continue to Reign as a King, you should learn to question everything you learnt, ... http://www.captiveadaptations.com/?p=156