Saturday, January 2, 2010

sex, God, Jobs, and Professional wrestling


During this winter Break I spent a lot of my now free time reading the World is flat and learned a number of reasons why the world is flat and how to cope in this flat world. For those of you who didn't read it, it basically says that the world is becoming flatter as a economic playing field because of advancement in connectivity that allows other developing nations and companies an even chance at competing with the US. The high-speed fiber optic cables and convergence of the Internet after 11/9 (the fall of the Berlin wall (the physical economic and social barrier)), led to countries like India, China, and Japan to compete for jobs with the US. Although the menial jobs like tax accounting, tutoring, online management, and receiving fast food orders, are shifting over to India, we can compete with the IIT grads by using our distinct imagination and creativity to give us an edge. In this flatter playing field, each one of us need to dig deep inside ourselves and find what we are good at and combine it with our distinct imagination to find and hold a job that can compete with others. Big companies, medium businesses and individual entrepreneurs are all competing for the same clients, but what will win the clients pay is whoever woos them with their creativity. A blogger can reach more audiences than CNN, a guy in a basement with a camera can have more clients than a million-dollar photography firm, and a small package delivery can hold a monopoly in an area without UPS. These things are occurring thanks to a dramatic increase in technology and connectivity in this flat world.

I leave this saying:

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death.
it doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle
When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

Oh yeah the title of this blog is the top four most searched terms on google, one of the flatteners of the world that allowed more information sharing. and the image is from Google(sorry doc but I don't have images of a flat world.)

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