Herak Sikder

Live To Inspire

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3 days ago | Tags: photo photography books

This is the only non fiction I am going to read on this trip :)

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1 week ago | Tags: indian hindi music remix

adding some hindi music to my life :)

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1 week ago | Tags: poem travel plane photo family friends

Thousand miles high

Thousand miles high

I soar in the sky

Among the winged angels

Our lives they pry

I sail through the land

of white fluffy castles

laden with dew

And glistening under the sun

with a silverous hue

I fly over the wild Atlantic

That’s always raging with mighty pride

And through the turbulence of Aeolus

Showing off his strides

I fly towards the land of exotic spices

and hearts made of gold

Moreover to the land of childhood memories

and the birth of my soul

The land that has taught me how to dream

And how to make it happen with a never ending grin

As I leave the west and sail to the east

I morph into the old me in an involuntary feat

I feel blessed to be a man of two lands

Of two cultures and two creed

It’s a beautiful journey into the warmth embrace of family and friends

It’s a journey home, a journey to the cradle of many fond memories

- Herak

wrote this poem on my flight from Toronto to Abu Dhabi. I dedicate this to all my family and friends in BD and especially to my mom :)

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2 weeks ago | Tags: harvard MIT | Notes: 38

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The dons of elite education could batten down the hatches and try to preserve the limited-supply model that has served them well (see: newspapers, record labels, publishing houses). Or, they can choose to embrace the openness and radically democratic accessibility the Internet makes possible.

This morning two of the top universities announced a collaboration that signals they are taking the latter path: MIT and Harvard are each pouring $30 million into a nonprofit partnership edX, which they hope will make the top-notch faculties and courses of their schools available for free to millions of people around the world — free for anyone with an Internet connection. In presenting edX, the initiative’s new president, Anant Agarwal, called the opportunity presented in online education ‘the single biggest change in education since the printing press.’
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We live in good times :)

‘The Single Biggest Change in Education Since the Printing Press’ (via courtenaybird)

(via courtenaybird)

Source: The Atlantic

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2 weeks ago | Tags: stars nasa space photography photo | Notes: 579

Gorgeous!!

Is there any place in the world you could see a sight like this? Yes! This digital mosaic shows the night sky as seen from False Kiva in Canyonlands National Park, eastern Utah, USA. Diving into the Earth far in the distance is part of the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Much closer, the planet Jupiter is visible as the bright point just to band’s left. Closer still are the park’s picturesque buttes and mesas lit by a crescent moon. In the foreground is the cave housing a stone circle of unknown origin named False Kiva. The cave itself was briefly lit by flashlight during the exposure. Astrophotographer Wally Pacholka reports that getting to the cave was no easy trek. Also, mountain lions were a concern while waiting alone in the dark to record the mosaic.

n-a-s-a:

A True Image from False Kiva

Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)

Source: apod.nasa.gov

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2 weeks ago | Tags: tech evernote speech mobile app startup | Notes: 1

Interesting talk from the CEO of Evernote.

According to him don’t be an entrepreneur for the following wrong reasons:

1. Money - If you are smart enough you can make enough money in a day-to-day job

2. Power - As an entrepreneur you’ll be reporting to more ppl like investors, banks, stakeholders than in a normal job

3. Bored - If you are bored it’s better to figure out what you want to do while on a pay roll rather than starting a company as about 99% of the companies fail

4. Flexibility - Yes, as an entrepreneur you’ll have flexibility - you can work any 20 hrs in a day :)

The only right reason to be an entrepreneur:

- To change the world - To have the passion to make a difference in the world. If you have that then nothing else matters.

timoneil:

Evernote’s Phil Libin: Why You Shouldn’t Become An Entrepreneur

As we mentioned earlier, Evernote CEO Phil Libin gave a fantastic presentation earlier today at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam.

After doing other companies, Libin now leads a company offering an eponymous ‘memory-enhancement’ service that has attracted nearly 30 million users to date, which means many budding entrepreneurs (I happen to hate the word ‘wantrepreneurs’) turn to him for advice on entrepreneurship and whatnot.

Surprisingly, Libin asserts that it’s probably not a good idea for them to become entrepreneurs at all – or at least not for the wrong reasons.

A great watch with many gems for folks looking to create products and grow ideas at scale. My favorite parts, beginning at 24:00:

The secret of being an entrepreneur - make a product whose perceived value increases over time. The more somebody uses it, the more they love it. The longer someone uses your product, the more valuable it seems to them - increasing value over time.

A Freemium business model, in this case, makes a lot of sense because your greatest perceived value is always in the future.