I am not too far away from what i always wanted to do. Its strange how I reach till this point. "And far more interesting times are yet to come" It tool me almost 5 years to understand what I love, and finally i have started getting hint of it. Somtimes its the conditions which force you to take the risks involved and not you guts. As someone said, "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations" And thats the way it is right now. But what is more important is, I am loving what I am doing. And I am thinking what i love to think, getting outside the domain of what others want me to do. No doubt, the risk involved great, but the returns are far more amazing.
We have always lacked the spirit of making something for the world. Something others can envy about us. But the times are changing. People here too want to lead and have that confidence. Time has come when world would not mean US, but Us.
I have not seen many companies with a vision. A vision to bring change. Most of them wants to survive. Survive by earning a lot before they cease to exist. And then they dissapear, and life moves on. I have a vision. And I will lay stones based on it. Technology is getting accessible to everyone of us. And not everyone know what all they can do with it. Most of the people are just followers. Not because they cant lead. But cos they are doing something else far more imoirtant to them than deciding the course of these technologies. But in the end, market is driven by the force of the numbers of these kinds of people who are just, followers, as they are too many. And hence comes the factor which decides the adoption of your ideas. Its design. If they see your product and tell themselves "I am incomplete without it" Your work is done. Then even if you take few features out, people though will argue but wont go ahead and own one. Thats how we people are. Humans are emotional. And if they are emotional about some product? The problem of adoption is solved.
Every class of people have different needs. And unfortunately the products are designed by not every class. And it fails to meet the needs of everyone else. This is one great point. As it brings in the differentiation one needs to creat his own market. The reason behind the success of TV was the available content, and content is the reason behind its fall too. People loved to watch 'few' precious serials. And with the advent of sooo many channels, the content was just too much to decide what to watch and what not. Same thing is going to happen with the internet soon. Infact it has already begun. With more than 40 billion webpages there is just too much content to be filtered and enjoyed. And here also lie opportunity. And Google Reader tries to solve this problem a little. But again, if you have even 50 websites selected there, you will end up with 1000 feeds a day which is.. you know what it is.. insane.
But that is changing as well, but awareness would delay the adoption of good ideas, like information in time-frames. And here comes in the role of a new product or technology which understands these problems, make people realize that its their problem and how much they suffer cos of it, and then become their emotional friend.
I have a vision. Vision of taking people with series of products towards total convergence. And that what I wanted to know since last 5 years. Now when I know, i am fearless, cos i can feel, far more interesting times are yet to come.
