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The IT Cottage Industry

My mom is a brilliant chef! The best there is! She has had about 30 years of cooking experience and she has been at since she was twelve. Similarly, my colleague's father is a master automobile engineer and has been working with vehicles for a great deal of time now. Many of my uncles are profound at their religion and mantras. This is a generation that we look at with great pity, since they did not have the power of information and computing at their disposal. Well, atleast that is what i hear when people talk about them. And it is hilarious to say the least. This is a generation which might not have had Wikipedia or Google at their disposal, but were equally and perhaps more knowledgeable and experienced in certain things in their days than what we are today. They did not have information at their disposal, but rather they hunted it out, and held it close and together even after all these years. That is information you cannot ignore, that is knowledge that we must not let go of. So as i sat about doing nothing fantastic at office, i realised the amount of value, monetary, this information had. You are talking about expertise gained over 30 years, in very specific areas ranging from South Indian cuisine, Motor bikes and Sanskrit mantras. Most of these things from our culture as human beings.

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Startup

There is this whole new revolution taking place with a sudden escalation in the use and making of software tools and products and the internet. There is so much one can seem to do and achieve nowadays. Almost every other person seems to be getting the next big idea and launching it to make decent wads of green. Well, many, like i did in the first statement of this post, are claiming this to be a direct effect of the explosion internet and software. But then again, there are other factors.

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Character in Technology

No sorry, this is not the Data Type "char" that i am going to talk about. Rather, this is related to the ethical and moral strength we must hold out in the world of technology. Talking about something like this can take a lot of time, due to the sheer range of contexts it touches. However, I am going to talk about one particular context that i came across time and again in this technological industry. I found, that for all the professionalism and maturity that people talk about, or rather boast about, there is no sense of responsibility or accountability for the work done and product delivered. And then i wonder, as to what has changed since the good old days of learning and ideating  in school. And that precise fact, is a bit of a let down after all the talk of being professionals.

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What has to go wrong, will go wrong

In a software development process, there are always roadblocks, detours, U-Turns, poor pathways and long hopeless drives which seemingly lead no where. It happens in all kind of firms, big and small. It happens in the development in all kinds of systems, simple and complex. What has to wrong, will go wrong, and there is very little you can do to avoid it. But you can manage it well, if you are prepared. But here is the funny bit, most of your preparatory skills come with experience. So do not get upset if you do not find the IT industry the way you thought it would be. Its not a perfect world, and this walk of life is no exception.

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