Ambition or Greed?

The other day I read the interview of Divya Narendra. I came to know about Winklevoss twins, Facebook, ConnectU.
I also read about the stress Divya Narendra made on the difference between ambition and greed.  I could not fathom the difference between ambition and greed he had in his mind.
But I found the puzzle challenging and decided to take it up with my method of explanation. To be frank it was not that easy to link the puzzle with the explanation. I mean, it did not click immediately. I had to think a lot, work with my models and then I came up with this explanation.
The figure which is almost self explanatory is here below :-

First of all it is not wrong to walk along arrows. It is also not wrong to collect mangoes fallen on the way. These are guilt free activities and are assumed.
When you are in position A, if you collect mangoes at A, B and at C, then it is ambition.
But if you are in position A, if you collect mangoes at A, E and at F, then it is greed.
This is based on my Pythagoras law. A step from say, A to D is addition to what you walked till A. But Pythagoras says A to B is also addition and so is A to C.
Addition is also guilt free. And therefore my statement is that one may freely use Pythagoras ambitiously and collect mangoes at B and C while at A.

Travel by Delhi Metro

I commute to office by metro. I board at Dwarka Sector 10 and get down at Nirman Vihar station. To reach office.

The morning journey is to read the news in mobile. What is the government upto? What are the major happenings? How is the economy faring? The news app reading is now a little less exciting. But in some mornings I do find reading news from app exciting. And in some not so much. But in most of the mornings reading economic news is now, more difficult. Also I find it difficult to contribute to my economy blog, www.economytoday-kirtivasan.blogspot.in.

In the evenings, most of the time I listen to music. Carnatic music is most soothing. I also listen to old music, new music and Tamil old music.

The metro journey is pleasant with good air-conditioning. Many times in the evenings I do not get a seat and have to travel back standing. But it does not matter with powerful air conditioners.

There are all types of people commuting in the metro. There are some who sit on the floor near the vestibule area. Many times one gets to see young lovers, cuddling and touching. Then there are government service ladies who look at even old men with demanding eyes expecting to vacate a seat for them. Then there are men with games apps or newspaper spending the journey time with the mobile or newspaper.

The best part of metro journey is the Dwarka area travel in the evenings.  There are flats in both the sides of metro of four five floors, all lit beautifully in the evening. Also the metro becomes almost empty before Dwarka area and the view becomes more soothing.

Freedom - A Short Story

Kirti woke up from his sleep at 6 am. He had a good 8 hours of sleep. He felt refreshed and looked forward to this day. It was a holiday and he decided to spend the whole day to his liking.
He went to gymnasium at 7 am and did weights workouts. He was happy with the shape his body was getting into. He did workout for one full hour with concentration, dedication and intelligence. He was out of the gym by 8 am.
He then decided to do a combination of running, jogging and walking for an hour. He did that and by 9 am he felt much worked out and his whole body was enthusiastic and was vibrating with life.
He went home and at 10 am he did prayers to God. For half an hour. Just he and God and the prayers. He thought this time was important to well being of not only himself but also the whole humanity and nature.
At 11 am he decided to teach himself music. He knew the theories and he played cassettes and looked to internet and started singing and learning Raagas. He learnt music for 2 hours.
At 2pm he felt a bit restless and decided to do cartoons. He spent a good 1 hour on this hobby.
At 3 pm he read newspapers and magazines and spent a full one and half hours on them. He was happy with the state of affairs in his country. And he was glad that the newspapers reiterated this fact.
At 5 pm he had a cup of coffee and thought "Why not expand his theories on life and life forces?". He spent 2 hours working on his theories. He used a laptop also to help build his theories and explanations.
At 7:30 pm, he felt hungry and asked his mother to give him dinner. His mother looked at him in anger and said, "You have done nothing fruitful the whole day. Just think it over. If you have to lead a life like this everyday, then, will it fetch you food?"

mySAIL App

I have built an app mySAIL for Windows Store and Windows Phone Store.
This App shall have sales, production figures, some important corporate notifications and present steel scenario around the globe.
You may download it from Windows Store if you have a desktop or a laptop or a tablet running on Windows 8.1. If you have a Windows Phone having Windows 8.1, you may download it from the Windows Phone Store.
This blog post is for receiving comments from one and all, the users of this App. Colleagues of SAIL, not having Windows can also comment. But they must have an Internet ID as per Google's Blogspot comment maker requirements.
I am providing the link for comments in my App. Also there is a provision for viewing the comments made in the App.

The Published App

I developed an App in the Windows App Studio and have now published it. This App is of my cartoons.
I request all my Blog followers having Windows 8.1 in their laptops, workstations or tablets to install this App. You may use the following link for installation

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/kirtivasancartoons/402c4298-0156-4f9d-ad51-66a10512b003

Thanks.

Body Fitness

There are many ways to keep the body fit.

1) Bodybuilding - It is good for increasing muscle strength and helps in working for a longer time. It also helps in reducing fat.

2) Yoga - Yoga brings out balance in body and improves flexibility.

3) Pranayama - Pranayama helps in controlling prana, the life force. It involves discipline in breathing and results in emotional discipline.

4) Jogging - Jogging improves stamina and reducing fat too if we manage food discipline.

 

Apps for SAIL built

I have developed Apps for my company SAIL. I had to subscribe cloud services to do this. The payment was in dollars and it was a little risky because the cost may be high. But I took the risk. The cost was Rs.1819 in credit card and I managed to subscribe to Microsoft Azure Services.
The second step was build an app. I decided to build it in App Studio as an experiment. SAIL always believed in experimentations. They give a free hand to experiment and then they decide whether the experiment was beneficial or not.
The data is fed into App as a text file from my PC. The App need not be regenerated every time. The data can be fed once in a week or so manually in the App Studio.
Here are the screenshots as in my Windows 8.1 workstation.

 

 I am a Microsoft certified Windows Developer. What I have done till now is just an experimental development. Including subscribing to cloud services.
To publish the app and make it available for others needs the app to be in Windows Store. Policy questionnaire and legal issues have to be digitally submitted. Of course, payment is also to be made.