Joseph Jude

Innovation in govt is not popular...we are about banalities&convention. but we want it to seem fresh - Gov Jerry Brown via @killerphrases

Every opportunity has an expiration date and the cost of missing out can be greater than the cost of messing up via @pwilson

Taking Action: 8 Ways to Classify Ideas #in

Attitude of police&many regulators in India: wait for ppl to fail(non-compliant) to grease palms. It shud b to nudge ppl towards compliance

I don't know what I want; hoping your tool can tell me - hear a variant often

Leaders needed where people interaction is highest; for all else mgrs will do: @MartijnLinssen

MT @pragmatic_d do u want unmotivated young doctors to take care of rural India via govt dictats? How more wrong can it get? @spinesurgeon

@pranesh_prakash @vidyut wats d impact of new IT rules on platforms like twitter, Wordpress,YouTube,Flickr? As owners wud they b rspnsbl

The IT Rules activism paradox by @vidyut

Truth comes in sentences. Bullshit comes in paragraphs:

Get to know diplomat M Manimekalai is India's evacuation specialist . Why we don't hear abt such officers in media?

Some Presidential Candidates I Would Like To See: | my vote is for Rajinikanth :-) only way to make India super-power

MT @acorn: Society has moved far ahead of the government's capacity to administer it.

@jokinjey did u go to KIT?

Into The Wild: Lost Conversations From Steve Jobs' Best Years from Fast Company (long but insightful read)

Wish @instapaper will show d tweet frm which article is stored like @pocket. Gives a context for later reading

Management is telling me I'm wrong, Leadership is convincing me I'm wrong via @MartijnLinssen @martin_english: @vijayasankarv

Danger of a project derailing is directly proportional to number of experts advising the project owner

Bandits and philanthropists #in

A few good men: How Alex Paul Menon nailed the Naxals’ lies via @firstpostin

@shankargan Do u know of any service/tool that can backup Wordpress as a static site?

Pitiful irony: a civil servant abducted on a civil service day

But anyone hearing it?MT @_R_Srikanth RT @ShankkarAiyar The Emperor has no clothes, finally somebody says it!: #UPA

Why do v hear honest, hard-working officers only when they are abducted, but daily news is filled with corrupt & scandalous?

Commitment≠doing RT @_R_Srikanth: "Finance Minister: [UPA] government is committed to economic reforms." Been hearing that for 10 years now

Part of India is under terrorists who impede infra devlpmnt;the other ripe with corruption where infra caves in. How can India ever develop?

One of the difficulty of a public servant in India>Maoists kill two security guards, kidnap Collector in Chhattisgarh

True RT @jokinjey: நான் நல்லவனாக இது வரை இருப்பது...எனது குணம் மட்டுமே காரணம் அல்ல..எனக்கு கிடைக்காத சந்தர்ப்பங்களே காரணம்...

Another flipflop of MMS govt: Kerala can't act in Italian marines case, says Centre

Get the govt to review new IT rules in India:

Got this ystrday. Today its okay RT @jobsworth: hmmm. gmail down for me

Apple wants to make it easy for non-programmers to build iOS apps :

So are we going to enact Right to joke & Right to draw cartoon?

Foreign Hand In India-How Big A Threat Is It (the whole nation is up for sale):

The Indian state is India’s biggest embarrassment.

Dichotomy between Dinesh Trivedi & ARaja defines UPA

anyone read 'Merchants of Tamilakam'? cc @narain

MT @KanchanGupta: Rare is the bureuacrat who rides into the sunset. They just hang on forever.

What did we gain by washing linen in public?

Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

MT @acorn: Do reforms if you want legacy

An impassioned piece by @smitaprakash on the clamour in Delhi for PM to visit Pakistan.

Knowing how to talk about our weaknesses, can be one of our greatest strengths:

What an amazing story - Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth

Software engineering is the Tiruchi of careers: not a place you go often other than to catch a connecting bus to somewhere else. @sidin

Wow 1000 posts. Keep the insights coming RT @dorait: Thank You

MT @acorn: It is wrong to conclude that those who can carry out attacks can also hold & administer them.

MT @alltough @andreaclear Many religious obligations are context specific

Is this attitude taught when inducted into govt? MT @_R_Srikanth @MalikAshok A govt that wants to punish others for its shaming shortcomings

Credential ≠ competence RT @simonsinek: Just because someone has the qualifications required does not mean they are qualified