Electric car

I do not have sense for business, and I am sorry for that. But, finally, I understood why power utilities are popularizing electric car usage! Because they will sell You power for electric car, instead of going to gas station(another company) and buying fuel. So, by electric cars, they are taking over customers from fuel companies...Eureka (for me :-)

The need of having strategy in a world with high volatile changes

This question emerged today in my mind.

I've been trying to define, no, not to define, but to try to explain some of my human attributes, and this is how I see myself today, or better say, part of myself, because I am not only that:

1. I am asking wright questions - important
2. I understand to some extent global reality - or better say, trends. I am not so cut from the rest of the world. I realize volatility, change, trying, evolutionary approach, no clear vision - ways used in today's world, which are tried to be used to solve some problems and get some gain or profit.
3. In some less extent I reveal hidden causes, or at least I assume that they must exist.
4. I am observing one phenomenon from multiple angles - one angle, opposite angle and neutral angle, as far as I am capable to.
5. I am aware that any conclusion which I made can not be final conclusion but maybe some hypothesis on which I can rely for some time, until it becomes not-valid, when I need to establish another one.
6. I am trying to distinguish facts from opinions.
7. I recognize multi-variability of some phenomenon, although I am not able to say which are all variables, and how they are influencing the phenomena. 
8. And what surprised me - even in cases of high volatility, uncertainty I recognize the need of having strategy and having strategic answer. This looks contradictory - high volatility vs. strategy - how strategy can function in cases of high uncertainty? I do not know the answer but some presentiment or hunch is telling me that if the uncertainty is growing, also grows the need of having strategic steps which need to be taken. I can not explain why is that, and maybe I am wrong about it.
9. What I am trying to use as a tool is applying models from one context to another. For example, I've been thinking about applying chess model from the chess context to strategic games of global players - one simple example. I still did not do to much on this approach, but I have a sense that this approach can yield very interesting and not expecting results.

Art of creation

After watching some disgusting show, I've asked myself - can any art of creation be called artistic? By looking at the results from that show, my stomach told me - NO, but, what, and who can tell what is artistic and what is not? How true art can be recognized? 

Beskonačne ličnosti

Pošto sam pre par meseci krenuo da radim u Beogradu, vozim se tramvajem, koji je relativno spor i dozvoljava da se uz put svašta vidi. Na stanici na Novom Beogradu, na jednom stubu, je bio zalepljen plakat na kome je pisalo "Srbi za Srbe". Pa sam se upitao - a zašto su se ograničili samo na to, zašto je bitno da Srbi daju\pomažu Srbima, zašto ne Svet za Srbe, Srbi za Svet, Čovek za Čoveka, Čovečansto za Čoveka, Čovek za Čovečanstvo.

Ta ideja mi se poklopila sa više ideja i misli koje su mi se javljale u poslednje vreme, a takođe je, naravno otvorila i neka nova pitanja:

1. ideja o tome da nas definiše ono što znamo i ono što ne znamo iz koje implica potreba za što sveobuhvatnijim obrazovanjem i iskustvom. Manifestacija te ideje se ogleda u tome, da sam ja posmatrajući svoj život, na neki način, video njegovu reaktivnu prirodu, a to je da sam ja reagovao na ona spoljna dešavanja za koja sam imao znanja, kapacitet i emociju da odreagujem i da nisam odreagova na ona za koja nisam imao kapacitet, znanje itd. Tim reagovanjima i nereagovanjima je formirana moja životna putanja.

2. mnogostruka (beskonačna?) čovekova ličnost. O ovoj ideji sam čitao u pravoslavnoj literaturi, gde se priča o bogolikoj ljudskoj prirodi, i da smo mi u stvari nosioci Boga u sebi, i da na taj način, pošto je Bog sve, mi imamo svestranu, mnogostruku, beskonačnu ličnost.

3. pa sam se upitao, kakvi su to ljudi koji pišu Srbi za Srbe, i koja je moguća praktična i idejna granice ljudske identifikacije, pitanje potrebe za identifikacijom(zašto ne možemo da na praktičnom smislu budemo identifikovani sa idejom Boga - da živimo mnogostruku (beskonačnu?) čovekovu ličnost? Koje su praktične granice čovekove ličnosti? Šta se zapravo dobija, (i da li se dobija?) mnogostrukošću tj. širenjem granica čovekove ličnosti? Kako se uopšte meri ta dobit, dobrobit - uživanjem u životu, radošću, smirenošću, zahvalnošću drugih ljudi, nečim drugim? Kako izgleda idejna beskonačnost (identifikacija sa Bogom?) kada čovek ostvari beskonačnost svoje ličnosti - ne verujem da je sa 76 godina prosečnog ljudskog veka ovo moguće, ali kao šta kaže Vladeta Jerotić, oboženje se nastavlja posle smrti. Zašto je čoveku uopšte potrebna ta identifikacija? Šta bi bio čovek bez toga? Kako izgleda čovek koji ne živi i ne dozvoljava svojoj mnogostrukoj ličnosti da se razvije? Da li se i ovde postavlja pitanje mere? Kako uskladiti kvalitet razvoja(plemenitost?) sa kvantitetom - ili svi putevi vode u Rim?

Posle sam još video i ovaj link sa ocem Romilom u gostovanju u emisiji Agape ovde.

Heterogeneous technologies

Since business today is heavily depending on technology, there will be enough work for technology workers. But, not only because of technology, but also because of different types of technology which are emerging (and dying) every day, and where some should integrate these types of technology.

What inspired me to write this article? I saw one job advertisement where job poster is looking for Oracle knowledge with Golden Gate. It means that is not enough to have Oracle specialist but this specialist also should sub-specialize (or co-specialize?) in Golden Gate. And this knowledge is much more rare (and much more expensive) then Oracle knowledge alone.

And what will be when someone (and with growing number of different technologies used in business it will certainly be the case) should look for sub-sub-co-specialist in some very narrow technology field, where there only be one man in the world who knows all these technologies?

Answer to that could be that someone will need to hire more specialist, or to rely on smaller number of technologies. Is it possible that number of different technologies used in some business is going to be smaller than today? Hardly. One of the reasons is continually faster environment(is there a speed limit for that?). In this kind of environment (where business is making and forcing decisions in technology field) more different technologies is going to be used. With more time to make proper decision (and not only to fulfill business decision almost immediate), but with deeper thinking about future technical debt which is going to be created if some new technology is going to be introduces, technology people should and could be able to make better choices then introducing heterogeneous technologies with complicated interfaces etc.

So, how to solve this issue?

Some things I've heard from one senior business guy

• Technical knowledge - where You are aware of technology part of the story\project\product.
• Industry knowledge - where You can easily speak with business people, that You can understand what they are talking about, that You can also share some business knowledge and discuses with them at the almost the same level, maybe You can have also some insights from other participants in the same industry, that these people You are talking with are not aware. You can discuss with them about algorithms used in solution.
• Quality - You need to delivery quality products\services\solutions. Constant quality is also important. 
• Price - You need to have reasonable price. 

And he also said that people underestimate industry knowledge, and that this is probably one of the most important knowledge.

If You have all of these, Your customer will like You :-)

Nin Portugalija citat

U Ninu - poređenje Portugalije i Srbije. Citat:"Beznađe mutira u običnu nihilističku ravnodušnost i utire put perverznoj adaptaciji skandaloznim ekonomskim i političkim dešavanjima."..."opipljivo pasivno beznađe nekako pretvore u aktivni očaj, što je preduslov smislene političke akcije."

Mislim da se iz iskustava država koje su na nekom malo višem razvojnom stepenu od Srbije može naslutiti šta i nas čeka.

Danas sam baš i razmišljao na sličnu temu, slušajući Darka Rundeka, kako je u stvari krajnji domet neke građanske inteligencije(palanačke?) u stvaru jalovi bunt. Jako me zanima šta može građanska inteligencija da iznedri. Eventualno još jednu takvu generaciju. Ali ne može, po svojoj prirodi, da izrodi revolucionarnu promenu. Eventualno, i to upitno, evolucioni pomak ka nekoj maloj promeni.
Ali, zar nisu "uspešne" države tipa npr. Švajcarske, Norveške i Danske, upravo i nastale jakom srednjom klasom koja je na neki način bila emanacija građanske inteligencije? Hmm, pitanje :-)