Fireball

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself;
They come through you but not from you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For, they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls lie in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit,
Not even in your dreams!

If you reached here after reading the quote, I appreciate your patience

I read the above lines in Hindu’s Open page. For a moment, it stuck like a lightning. Kahlil Gibran has given straight forward opinion for the parents and students who are victims of the current educational system (Including me).

Taare Zameen Par expressed how parents attribute everything with success. Things are forced upon them or rather they are made to think that what their parents think is the best choice, forcing the kid do what the parent failed to do as a kid, forcing them to walk exactly on their footpath and a lot more.

Being first in rat race may be appreciated by other rats, but what matters is how the person relates the success .

Being able to do is different from wanting to do. Do what you want to do, and show middle finger for the rest.

If you had seen Anniyan movie, and you have heard the famous “5 per 5 dhadavai 5 paisa thirudina” dialogue, you needn’t much explanation about crowdsourcing.

Freerice is one of the places which aims to give free rice to hungry people by playing a word game. But thats not hidden crowd sourcing! One of the best examples of hidden crowd sourcing is reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is a wonderful method to crowd source where both the parties get benefited.

As the site says,

About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into “reading” books.

Such an awesome idea, is being used in this blog for commenting. There are two captcha - words displayed. One for which already the answer is known, and another new one which you will be digitizing for the Internet Archive Books. After reCAPTCHA has shown the new one and gets lot of input, it shows it to another user as a known word.

On similar lines of crowdsourcing, a whacky thought:

The amount of force required for a keystroke is quite negligible. Generally, Buckling-spring type keyboards are used in normal keyboards while laptops have scissor-switch models. Buckling Keyboards are require more effort to press. But, consider a software industry where in there are millions of keystrokes per hour. If this mechanical work were to be converted to high quality energy, you could get extra incentive for your keystroke-labour And yes,It is assumed your company doesn’t use Macbooks.