It was interesting as it has always been-talking to friends that share wavelets with you. Talking to Sahil about what I fear the most... that I continue getting creative kicks and impetuses from the things that fascinate me (visual complexity and all that intersection space of physical and intangible) and all I do is just fantasize about doing something but dont end up doing anything. He questioned why would I think that. He mentioned David Nightingale, the founder of chromasia who started uploading a pic a day off his new camera and now that initial day to day activity is a big venture that earns him enough divident to have left his job and dedicate his full time to the photoblog....it finally occured to me that neither larry page/sergei brinn or mark zuckerberg started wiuth a well laid out plan of startimng a google or a facebook. All they did was:::they started somewhere. yaar abhishek this is the crux. start something right here right now. make mistakes faster, learn and grow and do it. dont go into too much of analysis. Intuition is always greater a force than knowledge.... coz intuition is an absolute value entity, whether it be a child's or einstein's. Knowledge is a mix of fact and reflection thus could be a limited entity....the lesson : start something that excites you today dont delve too much into its future that you anlaysis says dont do it. Its better to do something and fail than not do at all. In fact do it to fail. If its great it wont....
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a very interesting post. a hint of chaos in there, as usual, which is a good thing. i hope you will find it in you to 'just do it' and let events unfold...
cheers
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