Showing posts with label Rantings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rantings. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

"Figuring" it out!

Projected Value, Projected Profit, Estimated Growth, Rate of Growth of Industry etc etc
Graphs, Pie Charts, Box charts, Venn Diagrams...
Years, Companies, Gaming, Mobile, Smartphones, Consoles, PC...

These are what I find while reading some reports that covers the gaming industry or in general too. However, for the love of God, I can't figure out how they figure out the figures! (May be my brains just won't tap into this area for some reason?)

And I don't mean it sarcastically. I really have no clue. There have been many instances when I've been approached by people asking me about figures related to the gaming industry. And I've always fumbled. I can't even remember the figures from existing reports and sometimes I don't even know if I relate to them or if it makes sense to me. Ah well!

So I decided to "figure" it out!
Ya, well.. I thought I was making a Venn Diagram to show how much I understand figures... But my hand slipped while drawing the second circle and this is what I ended up making! 

Amen.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

A message to the dropouts!

Hi,

Please read the following as a genuine advice and let your brain process it while (I hope) you (manage) to stay on this page till the message ends.

So you dropped out of your college? Education sucks. You are too brilliant an ass to study anything or even make an effort to get a degree. Yea, there have been dropouts who are now billionaires. You want to see a list? Here you go: Click here.

Does that improve your confidence? Yes? Wow, you are all total morons in that case! Sorry for my language, but I think I've every right to say this. Do you know the zillion number of dropouts who failed? Do you know the humongous number of successful people, who by the way bothered to finish their degree? Why don't you "Google" them?

Have you ever thought what Bill Gates or Steve Jobs would have done if they had failed? Forget that, why don't one of you dropouts take a trip to the Microsoft office and try to get a job there. A huge list of credentials is what they ask. Aww and you thought being a dropout was just enough. So sad!

The successful dropouts we are talking about here; when they dropped out of college, weren't sitting around laying eggs. They were actually working their ass off towards a goal they had set in mind. I hope you do realize that the reason they are billionaires is also because of the other people around them. And here you thought just being a dropout was a quick path to success.

Sorry, any decent company will think twice to hire you without a proper graduate degree. And why is it important? You probably learnt more on your own than what formal education had to offer. So why bother with a degree?

It just shows a determination to show the world that you have what it takes to complete what you undertook! I'm not telling you to be amongst the top 5, or anything like that. Just get a bloody degree. Finish your degree, whatever it is and then continue with your goal or do it side by side.

The very reason that provoked me to write this is the mere fact that few 'dropout' entrepreneurs who made it alright (mostly by goddamn luck & someone else's money) go on to encourage the students to be a dropout.  How nice of them!

Prospective dropouts, please remember : when everything else fails, a degree still stands. The "x" years taken to complete your degree will never be utterly useless.

My simple advice is ignore the ones who preach that 'dropping out of college is cool' and get a degree unless you're filthy rich or a real genius (even for a real genius, luck & money are important factors). And if you are a dropout already, there's still time. Just finish that degree!

If you manged to read this far, I hope I've changed even 1% of your mind.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Me