My happy moment!!

I saw this book when Dr. G introduced held it up in the class and said that he and a student of his had written it together. The name looked very interesting, "Chronicles of a Quality Detective". The name was a combination of 2 things I really loved. One being my passion of yesteryears, Detective novels and stories and the other thing ( the one thing I truly loved in engineering), The study of Quality. And to add to everything, this was by my very own professor, Dr. G. I decided to look it up online cos I did not really have the guts to go and ask him where I could get a copy, cos well he has his own ways and I was not certain as to how he would react. So, google I did, and with good result. I found an online  copy of the book on Google Books and started reading it. Going through it, I realized that its main characters were Dr. G and his student Payal Sheth. Also, I got to know things about Dr. G like his wife was a Doctor and things like he loved Sherlock Holmes..ahh...and I think it was at about this time that my dad had rediscovered Sherlock Holmes and kept trying to make me read it again in spite of my telling him that I had read my share of Doyle and I thought Holmes was phenomenal. And it was only today after I finished reading Dr. G's book that I suddenly realized how I got into the habit of observing. Yes, u guessed right. It was from Sherlock Holmes. My memory is not that good and its been about 10 years, so I cannot recollect the various stories I ve read, but the amazing detail that Sherlock Holmes used to go into the moment he saw a person always fascinated me beyond anything. I guess, it is since then that I have tried to observe people in my own way and deduce maximum I can about them by just looking and observing them. Wonderful, I tell you. The method and the results that it can give you. I am not that bad at observing people I think and by reading the book I have clearly understood that I can apply this trait to a lot many other places and that it need not be necessarily limited to just analyzing people and their behavioural patterns. It might be useful somewhere else too..yippee!!

I loved the method of differential diagnosis. I want to write a detailed review on this book which I will be doing soon, not cos of anything else, but the sheer reason that the book, its authors and the technique..all three clearly deserve it. And if not for anything else, for making me happy and taking me back to the two places I was actually happy in...the Mystery and the Quality worlds.

 

Ask - Part 1

A ride in the Mumbai train. This is how much a single one way ride can make you think. A lot of unanswered questions in my mind. Hope to analyse and find answers to all of these. So, here goes...

Why does "Free" work so well? Is that why Google and Twitter are working so well?

Is "You own what you use" an Indian mentality?

Collage - Expressing things effectively...is it at some level a Mind Map with pictures???

How high is the "Risk" factor in entrepreneurship? Is risk the reason why we have more workers than entrepreneurs?

Helplines and their manifestations around us. Are they really effective? The chain in the train is a kind of helpline. Is it really effective?

Why are maps routing devices? Is that really the best way to figure out places?

Can the mind be called an exploding device? Is the working of the human mind actually like a periodic bomb which has to erupt in the end in the form of emotions?

Is tagging a person really required? What if we were all just faces?

We design everything keeping in mind the "Aesthetics" factor. So shouldn't everyone make aesthetics a part of the human manufacturing system? Are aesthetics over rated in general? Do you really think it is important for anything to look pretty? If yes, how much prettier and how much time and money cost should you allot for this performance factor?

Can we design a beautiful human being? Will it work? What will be the use and the utility of this product?

Why is the toy store the best place to come up with ideas? Does stimulating the right brain really make that huge a difference? We are happier when we enter the toy store. Is happiness correlated with the right brain? Is it required to be happy to be free and creative?

The importance of structure.

How important is structure? Is it as important in the thought process as in a building?

Advertising space in trains. 

Lease it out and in return get better quality  trains and good maintenance. Government needs to learn to let go. 

How easy is it to catch the swine flu in Mumbai? 

Or you could just count the number of strangers who sneeze into your face in a single day.

Is the Earth thinking? Are all her actions planned?

Don't just think from our perspective. Think of what we have done to her. Think of 'Gaya' and what she must think of all that is going on. 

And is she really dying? 

What is the point in Yellow and Blue light? People know that blue light consumes less electricity, but still yellow lights are used everywhere. Understandable that it sets the atmosphere, but is there really any other use? Then why not just switch to Blue.

Why does RED scare us? Are we actually scared of a color? Can a paradigm shift take place?

Who came up with stripes and checks? Why?

Why is the 'Circle' the defining and the end all of everything? Is the 'Spiral' better?

How strong is the illusion of Wind? Speed is the reason. Is wind a complete illusion and just an effect of something?

The bespectacled boy. How the spectacles are a part of him. It completes him. He feels incomplete if he is not with them.

Are bags / accessories shaped like animals really a huge market? Everybody finds it cute. A new opportunity to explore.