It was on January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. Decades later we are world at war with itself. I have come to appreciate Gandhi only late in my life and now his one utterance is how I live my life.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Earlier this morning I wrote about opportunities created by the spread of diabetes. I forgot to mention – not sure why – that in India and China that “the prevalence of diabetes is expected to double by 2025″ and that “between 15 and 20 percent of their adult population will develop the disease,” according to study conducted by Stanford University’s School of Medicine. The study found that there might be a shortage of essential medication needed to fight the growing epidemic.
I just posted this on GigaOM. Hope you get a chance to read it.
No one wants to think about the fact that Apple, like Gucci and BMW has achieved what I call aspirational escape velocity. If Chinese are ready to line-up for a product (iPhone 4S) and pay a premium for it, even though likely that a cousin is involved in putting it together, something must be going right. So why isn’t buying an Apple product like an iPhone or an iPad the new normal?
“We had periods, like the early Macintosh, when we had more people working on it than they did. And then we were competitors. The personal computers I worked on had a vastly higher [market] share than Apple until really the last five or six years, where Steve’s very good work on the Mac and on iPhones and iPads did extremely well.
He spent a lot of his time competing with me. There are lots of times when Steve said [critical] things about me. If you took the more harsh examples, you could get quite a litany. I got a fair bit of time with him in his last year. We spent literally hours reminiscing and talking about the future. I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built. I wrote about his kids, whom I had got to know.
There was no peace to make. We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing. There was no [cause for] forgiveness.”
Kate Imbach & Tom Conrad at the folks behind this awesome video which captures the reason why I am always trying to escape this crazy place 
