lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

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on disagreement

The below is not my writing. I picked it from the comments left at " The Importance of Having Friends Who Disagree".

Somethings I have observed,which are indirectly related to topic (well more to the topic of ideas really) are:

  • Now a days, more than ever, even if you implement an idea/prototype which you do not yourself believe in much or consider low-impact; people may find it interesting and find out a new way of using than what you could not even think. Somethings become popular just like that:(. (This is not to suggest that popularity is necessarily a measure of cool ideas)
  • It is difficult generally in practice for people to reject an "new" idea which is implemented (tangible) and available to play with; than an idea presented in theory/verbally. I mean both can get rejected, but it relatively takes greater time to reject the former than latter unless someone has implemented very badly(in which case even a good idea can get rejected quickly).
  • A good measure of finding a person which you mention, quickly, is how fast and right that person understands the concept of "po". After explaining "po", from the other persons reaction, you can make out how close he is to the perfect guy. I have seen that some guys do not bothered to listen; then there are those who nod their head and say they understood ; but the closest are those who just start building upon an idea from where you left or branch out from it or start another path. Basically, if idea has any inspiration/possibility they seek before giving it up immediately. It means they give due consideration before judging it black or white. Most of the times I have seen that both people involved come out with something slightly or completely different than the original.
  • Some people develop "disagreement" as a coolness trait, assuming it to be a characteristic of an "independent thinker". They generally are successful in drawing a lot of attention. It is in my opinion, important to cross-check them, by looking at their cool ideas/reasons/explanations carefully and having your own opinion about it. It is sometimes easy to fall in the trap of pseudo-disagreement friends too:)
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i joined the gym today

I joined the gym today. Yahoo! provides free gym memberships to all its employees and after a year of making excuses, I joined up today. Some observations

  • I joined the gym together with my manager. Hopefully, whenever one of us tries to run away, the other will motivate him to keep going
  • This is the first time that I joined a gym which gave people fitness trainers. I can attest from my personal experience that this is very important. This is the first time I left a gym with only minimal amount of pain in my muscles, thanks to proper warmup and cool down sessions
  • During my warm up session, I had a spell of dizziness. I am not sure why this happened, but I had to slow down after that. My guess is that it was caused by my high-sugar, low-nutrition diet. I should take time to research some low fat and nutritious food which are easy to make or buy

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