wealth of a country: Gross self esteem indicator

The wealth of a prosperous society or country is measured by gross esteem indicator (self worth).

The so called first world countries have comparatively lower rate of eligible voters actually voting.
Are they lazy ?

vs

the poor countries, such as Nepal, where every one seems to have ample “time” to vote and believe in spending a day waiting in line to “vote”.
Are they smart ?

My take is:

In USA: most people try to make change happen (with or without voting). So most don’t feel voting is that special.

In Nepal:most people have too low self esteem to make change happen (so they vote — to increase their self esteem)

Voting raises their self confidence in themself, and maybe make change)

In essence a story between high self esteem and low self esteem

Gross self esteem indicator, anyone ?

Ujw

Why is exchanging information on web still cumbersome ?

as i work more and more in wordpress (blogging web software) I am annoyed by the way web technology still hasn’t made it easier to publish on the web after all this time.

One click (or maybe 2 click) publishing of your message, log, transactions is a must if we are to exchange information quickly transcending borders, nations and barriers.

I am focusing more and more on wordpress to make web publishing as easy as possible.

Ujw

whynepal is built on wordpress and we are thinking of moving our company website (www.digital.com.np) also into wordpress.

simplicity and ease of use rules the day.. anytime (even though it may not earn fame ).

hope to move wordpress to mobile once we learn enough of the platform.

The thing about thinking big, staying small.

When one wants to start a new venture (specially the young ones) , i recommend this :

a) Do what you like to do. (seriously!).
b) Stay small (as small as you can.) Reasons, managing people and the environment around us are one of the hardest thing to do. It drains our creative energies and refocuses our energies to mundane tasks of administrating, managing and whim of other’s emotions.
c) Instead, improve your own image (brand, value, worth) by carving out a niche and concentrating on becoming the best at that niche. i.e if you are the best at making “circular breads” and enjoy making it, stick to it and become the best at it. You will find enough loyal customers as you build your brand.
d) Now Stay small, think big . concentrate on how you or you and your small team can think big while staying small. You make a bigger impact this way. Don’t let that ego of you persuade you otherwise.

“if you are looking for a job, join a one person company, if not, join a small organization”
and hope you will enjoy the ups and downs !

Ujw

Don’t wait, GET small, THINK big.

A great article posted by Seth Godin, favorite preacher

i am posting the highlights from an interview he did . http://www.etsy.com/storque/article/1871/
Basically he talks about how it might be wiser to remain small, and think of big ideas and tis possible to do great and massive stuff while remaining small. (and wiser to do so this way). This applies to Nepal especially where most of us feel ” You have to be big, to make better things ”

We in Nepal, are used to the “big government, big business, small people” and thus have a misguided view that “being small is not going to make big changes, big revenue or big ……. “. or “we need a big powerful government to make big changes, or we are doomed !”

This thinking is mostly crap!

Here is a validation on

“ GET SMALL, THINK BIG “

Big used to matter. Big meant economies of scale. (You never hear about “economies of tiny,” do you?) People, usually guys, often ex-Marines, wanted to be CEO of a big company. The Fortune 500 is where people went to make… a fortune.

There was a good reason for this. Value was added in ways that big organizations were good at. Value was added with efficient manufacturing, widespread distribution and very large R&D staffs. Value came from hundreds of operators standing by and from nine-figure TV ad budgets. Value came from a huge sales force.

Of course, it’s not just big organizations that added value. Big planes were better than small ones, because they were faster and more efficient. Big buildings were better than small ones because they facilitated communications and used downtown land quite efficiently. Bigger computers could handle more simultaneous users, as well.

Get Big Fast was the motto for startups, because big companies can go public and get more access to capital and use that capital to get even bigger. Big accounting firms were the place to go to get audited if you were a big company, because a big accounting firm could be trusted. Big law firms were the place to find the right lawyer, because big law firms were a one-stop shop.

And then small happened.

Enron (big) got audited by Andersen (big) and failed (big.) The World Trade Center was a target. TV advertising is collapsing so fast you can hear it. American Airlines (big) is getting creamed by Jet Blue (think small). BoingBoing (four people) has a readership growing a hundred times faster than the New Yorker (hundreds of people).

Big computers are silly. They use lots of power and are not nearly as efficient as properly networked Dell boxes (at least that’s the way it works at Yahoo and Google). Big boom boxes are replaced by tiny ipod shuffles. (Yeah, I know big-screen tvs are the big thing. Can’t be right all the time.)

I’m writing this on a laptop at a skateboard park… that added wifi for parents. Because they wanted to. It took them a few minutes and $50. No big meetings, corporate policies or feasibility studies. They just did it.

Today, little companies often make more money than big companies. Little churches grow faster than worldwide ones. Little jets are way faster (door to door) than big ones.

Today, Craigslist (18 employees) is the fourth most visited site according to some measures. They are partly owned by eBay (more than 4,000 employees) which hopes to stay in the same league, traffic-wise. They’re certainly not growing nearly as fast.

Small means the founder makes a far greater percentage of the customer interactions. Small means the founder is close to the decisions that matter and can make them, quickly.

Small is the new big because small gives you the flexibility to change the business model when your competition changes theirs.

Small means you can tell the truth on your blog.

Small means that you can answer email from your customers.

Small means that you will outsource the boring, low-impact stuff like manufacturing and shipping and billing and packing to others, while you keep the power because you invent the remarkable and tell stories to people who want to hear them.

A small law firm or accounting firm or ad agency is succeeding because they’re good, not because they’re big. So smart small companies are happy to hire them.

A small restaurant has an owner who greets you by name.

A small venture fund doesn’t have to fund big bad ideas in order to get capital doing work. They can make small investments in tiny companies with good (big) ideas.

A small church has a minister with the time to visit you in the hospital when you’re sick.

Is it better to be the head of Craigslist or the head of UPS?

Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big.

Don’t wait. Get small. Think big.

hope you enjoyed the argument.

8 days of holiday for an election vs “no work.. .no eat”.

I realize the election’s importance..and well there is an 8 day holiday.

but we know..

“no work.. no eat…”

simple. don’t talk about development, progress, poverty, business, happiness” before you consider the above quote.

Ujw