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marți, 15 martie 2011

An Image

You know how some images stick in your mind for years, even though they may not mean anything very much; may not even be beautiful? I have a ruined hut in my mind which is like that. I had seen it in Chakwal, Pakistan, for a few minutes, in between some other things. I have written about my visit to Chakwal already.

My sister visited me in November, bringing with her a box of slides of Pakistan which I had left with her. Most of them have a nasty purplish overlay, which I've been trying to clear away through the magic of Photoshop. I was scanning the slides from Chakwal, and found one of the hut. Fittingly, perhaps, it was ruined; I couldn't bring it to life. And yet the photograph succeeds for me, because it suggests something coloured by the imagination:


I love the little tree, which someone carefully planted beside the door -- I had forgotten it. This is what I wrote:

It was the most rudimentary structure, enclosed within a low stone wall. The pale stones, mud mortar crumbling away, the half-fallen thatch of the roof through which blue sky was visible, the rotting door, the broken wooden bedstead -- all seemed touching. I wondered about the lives it had contained, and why they had left it. The air was very quiet, sunny, clear and cold.

Several Things

I'm on vacation, first of all. Hurray for wi-fi!

Secondly, a few days back I was able once again to see the blogsites which had been banned by the government earlier - blogspot, typepad, geocities. Many ISPs had lifted the ban earlier; mine, Hathway, was apparently one of the last to let go. No notice of imposition, and none of lifting: one day it was all just there again.

Thirdly, I am amusing myself with a little pamphlet I made out of old wedding invitations:



I'm filling it up and posting the pictures on my sketch blog, for those who are interested in this kind of thing: fire star arts.

That's about it, I guess. It's so lovely in Bangalore right now - soft air, a breeze making the most beautiful sighing sound in the branches of the trees, birds with more melodious cries than those of my household crows. As in the beginning of every vacation, it's hard to imagine ever leaving.

Necesitamos Simplicidad.


Hoy en Dia todo es demasiado complicado. Entender aquello que nos rodea es una tarea imposible. No es extraño que la enfermedad del momento y la del futuro sea la depresión; uno se siente minúsculo rodeado de tanta sofisticación a nuestro entorno. Uno debe además estrujarse la vida para simplemente sobrevivir, puesto que alguien nos ha convencido, de que no se puede vivir sin una hipoteca, una casa en la montaña y un gran coche en el garaje.
Hay quien dice que, lo más importante es encontrar el equilibrio entre “vivir y ganarse la vida”. Lo segundo sin lo primero es malgastar nuestro tiempo.
Para encontrar un equilibrio en nuestras vidas debemos aprender a preguntarnos ¿es esto lo re que realmente quiero ahora?
En el contexto anteriormente descrito, en el mundo empresarial será necesario hacer propuestas simples, fáciles de entender. La idea de estas propuestas es que no es preciso dar un exceso de servicios al cliente, sino que si se da lo básico para abaratar el precio significativamente, muchos estarán agradecidos (estrategias nofrills de las líneas aéreas de bajo coste).
El concepto de simplicidad como valor añadido, se impondrá. Es mejor dar algo simple, que se entienda fácilmente, que algo complicado Esto ultimo será fundamental en un entorno de infoxificacion (sobredosis de información), que nos conducirá a una ansiedad ante la elección , tenemos tal cantidad de opciones entre las que escoger que lo difícil será decidirnos.
Con el tiempo aprenderemos a apreciar a quien le comunique las cosas con simplicidad. El negocio de la comprensión (ayudar a que las cosas sean mas fáciles de entender y de usar) será de los mas boyantes. Y además una de las principales razones del éxito de una propuesta innovadora será la del rendimiento inmediato; que inmediatamente tras comprarlo ya podamos usarlo, lo que implica que sea fácil de usar. Simplicidad y usabilidad inmediata Irán de la mano y abrirán un espectro de posibilidades en el futuro comercio.