Saturday, 27 February 2010

The engineer tiptoing in another world.

The engineer tiptoing in another world.

I am now trying another prospective which is better suiting me. why being confrontationnal when you can be working along. don t rely on what you think is a given, 2+2 might equal 5, who decided otherwise. a mix of words and meaning making it all easier for each one to understand each other. Yes, i wouldn t change my belief, i will never hinder the incentives pushing me forward, as one of the best engineers once said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" That's the swift move I would enjoy, not looking for the end results, but looking to the pattern, theme, current flow, actors in this flow, to drive up a process where uncertainty makes the sign equals  an ever more interesting challenge to reach.

As an engineer, I like uncertainty, that s driving me forward, the great pleasure of carrying something out, not being sure totally if it s gonna be a success,identifying where all that is going to and now the pleasure of dealing in another field on the day to day with the different uncertainties up coming. An engineer is good at reducing them, Heisenberg showed the way, it s just now to go one step more forward, That s what makes life interesting, risk and uncertainties, trying to minimize them all, definitely not possibly erasing them, and trying to get the light. Creativity is one torch of its own, it s lighting up my world and never i will take something for given, always challenge. Ok if not in a group, challenge it personnally, think behink, think of the rationales underlying it all, thinking of it in a bigger context, that s definitely one piece of interest. 


We are emotionnal, we are not rationnal for most of the thing we are doing, so yes rationality is good to set milestones, deadlines, objectives should still be set up realistically, with its part of emotions entering the loop.
Reality is this world I am moving forward to. At a time where the virtual is making it even more, we found a leeway and escape to define reality to find a comfort zone somewhere else. Nothing to blame, here we can set up our rules, our way forward and so on, but reality will always be the back scene underlying it all, these sights, these noises, these reactions, these beliefs, these smell, these touch, these tastes. That s all that making it more interesting, and makes that you are reacting with surprise, again and again. Surprises should never be spoilt. Part is good, part is bad. At the end, all these parts are life. Needless to say I like it

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

I don 't know why

Google style

An interesting insights on why you should keep aware that the world around might not be moving as fast as your company does, and that getting to a slow steady state, doesn t mean you will be wiped out of the internet, or is it?
It s increasing the hyperactivity required in meeting customer growing demands, and getting everything from the customers answered fast. too strange and fast for a traditional, required, rational decision-making balancing pros and cons.
It does change our day to day behaviour, and given the success of the past, these Google customers might appear to get frustrated more and more easily, sustainable move? investing in rational piece of equipment and infrastructure, even if moving a lot technologically, might prove to provide a relief stage and deserved break for a software company like google evolving the more than quick IT sector, time to reflect a bit on what they ve been doing, and slow the pace reasonably and sustainably.
On the highway, the fastest is the one who goes over everybody else, it does still include the risk of stopping for good,
as accidents are far more difficult to handle in this set up. Here I am doing a metaphor on the speed of change so common in the IT that we don t see anymore the difference between what we've got to have, and what we can have but won t prove necessary. So get out of buzz and wave and keep it rationale if I dare conclude,or just focus in stayin the highly dynamic IT environment coming back to your roots of thinking and analysing and getting a system fully efficient and properly implemented and maintained like you know how to.

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Tie Break

On a break

An MBA is unfortunately not like i was expecting it to be, like holidays where i could finally rest my thoughts from an hectic over the edge time, but going from subject to subject such as, and only for the first quarter:
- finance accounting (up to the mergers and all balance sheet income statement statement of retained earnings, statement of cash flow
- organisationnal behavior ( business case on how to identify a strategy, implement change, manage and be a leader, where the very interesting difference in english between may should can have to must is interesting)
- information system ( i understand far more with my SAP background, everything needs to be structured, and IS god is saving it all, well... )
- Marketing fundamentals (product price promotion place customer competition distribution channel and so on, the best definition was how to work on misery of people, i did believe that)
- economics ( the most hurting philosophy i understand, teaching us all the goodness of capitalism, see below my 10 principles of Mankiw interpretation...)
- Entrepreneurship management (in fact, i discovered the school is not well linked with major companies, apart from american ones, so for people not finding a job, the best is to create it)
- Quantitative analysis for business (I am a math geek like myself)
- Strategy, industry diversity, communication, and more and more business cases and i am  reading 200 pages a day on average... even during week end, sob.

and soon another trimester on cost accounting and all other bulls, market analysis and so on. don t want to look at it yet and spoil my surprise.

so in his break, BB helps clarified all that by keeping it quiet. the results will make me review my alphabet, yes american marks.

took time to think about challenges, one thing for sure this is not good for inspiration, but hey still a little bit of it, so whoever wanting to be part of a short movie, just raise your hands, and get the other one on the computer to contact BB´s PA, so here comes the eight challenge:

Two scenarii:

Tchout
C est un clown au chomage et doit aller a l ANPE. Les gens ne vont plus au cirque et il se retrouve sans emploi.

Il derive dans les rues de la ville, s’arrete devant les magazins, discute avec les mannequins, s epoustouflent devant les couleurs de leur vetement. Il decouvre la culture, le monde extrieur, les gens circulent autour de lui en marche rapide. Donc oui il rencontre qqs peu d autres personnes habillees en clown sur sa route et d autre habille bizarrement normalement, une tete bien serieuse.

A un moment,  il se balade dans un jardin enfin il danse il court il volage il se roule meme sur le gazon. Sa tete va dans tous les sens. Splendides couleurs, bleu vert orange tout foisonne, la on entend une sirene retentir et un monsieur en uniforme l appeler. Il s´arrete pour lui poser une question on lui demande ses papiers, on lui demande ceux de ses parents, apres 3 semaines celui de son arriere grand mere. Ca finit ou on le voit en costume cravate a la fin. L'écran se partage en deux, ce qu'on aimerait etre et ce qu'on est.
It´s a jobless clow, got to check at the job center, people don't go often to the circus, and crisis is hitting badly.
He is wandering through the street, people in fast forward mode. Yes he does meet some other dressed as clown but most of them are oddly wearing some classical outfit with a very serious face.
Then, as he is walkingn through a garden, euh yes he dances, runs, flies, rolling himself on the grass. His head is going everywhere. Fantastic colours, blue, green, orange, everything is blossoming. Suddenly, we can hear a siren and one person asking him some papers, asking him the one of his parents. after 3 weeks wandering between the police station and his tent, they finally ask the official paper of his grandma. He doesn´t know her. So here it finishes, he is dressed smartly with a tie.
At the end, the screen is split in two: what we would like to be and what we are.

Chapter
Un corto, primer capitulo que se abre como un libro, un primer capitulo, 3 minutos sobre no se el fantastico libro de illusiones, un otro sobre dentro del scriptorium, no una copia de este assunto, una vista dando una interpretacion que se puede ver sobre la camera
One short movie, first chapter opened as a book. Three minutes to travel through god knows what, like the fantastic book of illusions (Thanks to Paul Auster), another chapter on the insied of the scriptorium, where the fiction is leading the spectator to see how the author evolves with persons coming from his writing.
Well I won t be Ryan Mc Ginness, but what a fantastic colourful logo job he is doing. stop by.