1. my two pieces of advice @abhinav

2. advice # 1

3. what is the most important thing in your day-to-day life?

4. your cell-phone?

5. Internet?

6. how about food?

7. #1a understand and appreciate the importance of other professions and professionals

8. #1b and possibly learn from them

9. have you seen carpenter at work?

10. Intel faces billion dollar chip recall

11. action sequences in golmaal

12. compare with agile development

13. http://www.slideshare.net/bokardo/metricsdriven-design-4317168

14. advice # 2

15. "So many centuries after the creation, it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value" Report of the committee organized in 1486 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to study Columbus' plans to find a shorter route to India.

16. "...any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.." - Ernest Rutherford (father of nuclear physics and nobel prize winner)

17. search is a solved problem

18. hackers are like painters - Paul Graham

19. why? why not?

20. #2 read and listen to what other 'experts' are saying - but don't marinate yourself in the conventional wisdom without thinking

21. and this brings me down to advice # 3

22. “ he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions" - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860). http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

23. or in other words

24. facebook & twitter are injurious to your health.