Unlearn!

Sometimes the knowledge of 'what not to do' can take one leaps and bound towards success. Agreed that knowing 'what to do' is very important but one must not underrate the need to 'not do something'. People often tend to get comfy in their respective work - be it, mundane office job, the project at hand, the websites visited etc etc. But one must pause occasionally and understand that by doing so are they going anywhere. Hence the need to unlean what one may have learnt so thoroughly that it has gone in their subconscious, and which they continue doing again and again.

Explore a different route to office, try lunching with new bunch of people, explore the science you were never interested in, explore new websites and therefore new content, watch different genre of movie. Doing so is going to expand a person - and when unlearning becomes a habit - learning has no bounds :)

Google buzz

Its kinda creepy what google can really do considering they have vast majority of your email transactions and blah!!. For starters they have suggested my followers and people whom I follow in their new age product - Buzz. That to me is just the tip of an iceberg.

Consider just a few things like purchase confirmations, air ticket itineraries, and google alerts that one may never bother to delete (google generously has provided 1GB of space). If based on a simple frequency count, they can come up with boat load of profiles, imagine what they can draw based on the other stuff they have about all of us, and who knows they must already be approached by marketing geniuses to tap on to each profiles datanome (analogy from genome). Mapping a person's datanome to draw the behavioral traits and what if analysis could be really interesting. Did someone say SciFi exists only in movies!, and that we are miles away from being ruled by machines! thing again.