Note to Self – Meditation!
Buddha was asked, “what have you gained from meditation?” He replied “nothing! however let me tell you what I have lost: anger, anxiety, depression, insecurity, fear of old age and death.”
No blame, no argument
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor…
Happiness – Change your thinking
Once a group of 50 people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room. Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for…
AWS Redshift – For building a large data warehouse, you don’t need a huge CAPEX
Amazon Inc. recently announced the broad availability of Amazon Redshift – a fast, powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. Redshift, based on technology from ParAccel is aggressively priced solution at $1,000 per terabyte per year. Per AWS blog , it is highly cost effective offering that comes at about one-tenth of the cost associated with a typical data warehousing option and is expected to deliver 10 times the performance. Redshift is targeted to replace the capital expenditure of building…
Reminder! – Time is the best gift for your family
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: ‘Daddy, may I ask you a question?’ DAD: ‘Yeah sure, what it is?’ replied the man. SON: ‘Daddy, how much do you make an hour?’ DAD: ‘That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?’ the man said angrily. SON: ‘I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an…
Semantic layer demystified
Reports use queries to extract data from data stores, and then present the results to a user. At a low level, there are two main ways of creating queries. 1. Using a query language appropriate to the data store, e.g. SQL or MDX. 2. Use of semantic layer What is a semantic layer? An increasing number of reporting tools allow users to make use of a “semantic layer”. Some vendors give the semantic layer a name that is specific to…
Happiness is what you feel inside
Ultimately, happiness rests on how you establish a solid sense of self or being. Happiness does not lie in outward appearances nor in vanity. It is a matter of what you feel inside; it is a deep resonance in your life. To be filled each day with a rewarding sense of exhilaration and purpose, a sense of tasks accomplished and deep fulfillment—people who feel this way are happy. Those who have this sense of satisfaction even if they are extremely…
3 things that drive Amazon
Jeff Bezos talks about the three things that drive a company forward: 1. Customer obsession, 2. Invention and 3. thinking long-term and how these three business drivers are inherent in both Amazon and Zappos’ business cultures.