Virtue of bullshitting

Competent people, most of them, can't claim more than what they are worth - they can't bullshit. This lack of skill causes them to take longer time to be noticed and hence to realize their full potentials. They NEED to learn how to bullshit, just to get them first under the spotlight. Their actual competence will let them to stay on and improve.

Unfortunately, or rather naturally, bullshitting skill and real competence seldom come in pair. But from whatever side you starting on, you must also master the other. But it's harder to do it if you start from the one particular side - ah, you know which.

A day of leadership in an Indian company

Team Member (TM)    : Sir, we have a big problem
Project Manager (PM) : I want priority action immediately!
TM : Sir, we don’t have a plan until today for our course of actions
PM : Priority action immediately! Please do the needful!
TM : We are not sure of the problems to be addressed …
PM : Close monitoring! Close monitoring! Any problem revert back to me!
TM : But this is the problem sir … we don’t know what the problems are …
PM : Please prepare and coordinate with me for discussions
TM : But we are trying to discuss it with you NOW sir ….
PM : Ok, any blockings discuss with me
TM : Sir, right now, it’s nothing BUT blockings!
PM : Please support the customer, I want priority action and daily update
TM : Sir, I want to resign …
PM : Ok, requesting you to make an action plan to achieve the same
TM : Sir, I’m resigning now!
PM : Good going, keep it up.

(Written as inspired by some GREAT people who managed to confuse even the most conscious)

Business anyone?

I have just came out of a meeting ...

I have just came out of a meeting, where they were all confused but they were all talking. The ones who understand did not speak, for they did not know where to start since matters had strayed so far off the tangent that anything discussed are both relevant and irrelevant at the same time. Then they made trivial decisions, produced obvious questions, and smiled contently. A good meeting! A good meeting!

Forgive them for they know not what they do.

I exist, You don't

One day I dreamt and awaken just to find out I was yet in another dream, I'm dreaming that I'm dreaming of me dreaming of ... ad infinitum. What if life is just one big perfect dream and death is I being awaken to the previous level up of yet another dream? This may go at least three ways: ad infinitum, cyclic, or finally I find 'reality', ie. God or Heaven. Either way, I exist, You don't.

But if between jumping dreams I remember not the previous existence, won't I be a new being everytime, and hence I as I know myself will actually cease to exist everytime? Unless at the end of the journey or at some point, the recollections are recalled and summed up - like when you are awaken and recalling your dreams - as pieces that form together into one big super existence. Are we god himself?

Marsillam and Pansus

We learn of meanings by contrasting: tall-short, pretty-ugly, rich-poor. Then refinement of meanings when the comparison objects present levels: tall-less tall, pretty-less pretty. At early stage your understanding is binary, the black or white. Then both intelligence, or the learning, and exposures, or the knowledge, refine the understanding.

These are what earn you a 'seat' in life: intelligence and knowledge. Absence of both however, earn you seats in this world. So Marsillam sat on one side, and the Pansus on the other ...

Dilemma of Faith

Faith is to trust with absence of reasons. Practical faith involves faint trails of reasons, but absolute faith shall involve absolutely no reasons. But if I don't reason, I am not being. A non-existent me can't possibly love. How could I love my God in faith?