A very passionate statement of Intent I had written a long time back when the drama quotient in me was soaring to renewed heights after taking a break in my career. I have edited it ruthlessly, to save people from boring details of my achievements and job description and my constant affirming notes as to how interesting a person I was back then :)
This was a period when I realized the meaning of the quote “My heart is in the work” by Sir. Andrew Carnegie. After a period of 3 months, I came across XXX, specialized in creating communication tools that .....BLAH BLAH BLAH.... They were looking for someone with a technical background who could communicate the needs of the client to the various teams. This profile now reminds me of an excerpt from Daniel Pink’s new book “A whole new mind”. It says “In the Conceptual age, we will need to complement our L-Directed reasoning by mastering six essential R-Directed aptitudes. Together these six high-concept, high-touch senses can help develop the whole new mind this new era demands.” I was that “Whole new Mind” version 1.0 in the making or so I would like to believe
The icing of the cake was the experience I gained where I had the opportunity to work closely with creative heads and the technical heads .....BLAH BLAH BLAH.....This was an eye-opener, the lesson I learnt was I need to believe in what I pursue and not to undermine the intelligence of the user. Professor Randy Pausch said: “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted” Its true, a failed project has taught me more than successful projects. The trick is not to make project failures a habit. Innovative solutions are the key
I would bring to the platter an Indian sensibility as I was nourished on heavy doses of South Indian culture. My experience can be put to test in the classes of the likes of Professor Boyarski and Professor Brodsky. And this is my Statement Of Intent, my reasoning to back my intention of dreaming bigger, and this I vouch to be true to the best of my knowledge :) :) :)
STATEMENT OF INTENT!!!
The Pinter Pause- Intended as an instructive note to actors, the British playwright Harold Pinter, used the word ‘pause’ in his scripts as a space for emphasis and breathing room. And to this date, no other playwright has consistently used pauses with such rhythmic assurance and to such fine-tuned manipulative effect. I was witnessing a la “Pinter Pause”, 2 years ago during an exclusive Google’s Speaker Series event (I was one of the 2 members’ team selected from my company to attend this privileged Speaker Series), when Dr.Vincent Cerf (hailed as the Father of Internet) was being asked about his current project. Every day of my school-life, I had spent my time understanding and learning various schools of thought, scientific discoveries and expeditions of people who have left this earth a long time ago and there is this man standing in front of me who inspired 2 whole textbooks and 2 subsequent semester projects based on artificial intelligence and networking for my 4 year computer science engineering degree course. He answered: “Interplanetary Communication Protocol. Earth and Mars will be better networked in future” Did he just point to the possibility of an e-mail from Mars? Given his track record, he probably will achieve it and inspire more text books. And I can embark into communication theory, user research and concept evaluation methods in the Martian context or probably write a book ‘101 interactives that will work in Mars’
Understanding usability and intelligent interaction pretty much defined my job-profile during my ... BLAH BLAH BLAH....
This was a period when I realized the meaning of the quote “My heart is in the work” by Sir. Andrew Carnegie. After a period of 3 months, I came across XXX, specialized in creating communication tools that .....BLAH BLAH BLAH.... They were looking for someone with a technical background who could communicate the needs of the client to the various teams. This profile now reminds me of an excerpt from Daniel Pink’s new book “A whole new mind”. It says “In the Conceptual age, we will need to complement our L-Directed reasoning by mastering six essential R-Directed aptitudes. Together these six high-concept, high-touch senses can help develop the whole new mind this new era demands.” I was that “Whole new Mind” version 1.0 in the making or so I would like to believe
The icing of the cake was the experience I gained where I had the opportunity to work closely with creative heads and the technical heads .....BLAH BLAH BLAH.....This was an eye-opener, the lesson I learnt was I need to believe in what I pursue and not to undermine the intelligence of the user. Professor Randy Pausch said: “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted” Its true, a failed project has taught me more than successful projects. The trick is not to make project failures a habit. Innovative solutions are the key
“Innovation” was a word thrown at me by more than half of my clients when asked about their competitive edge. Clients expected creative exuberance after their brief on innovation. Taking innovation as a theme to the design team meant flying paper-weights in the room but yet the campaign “Inspiring Innovation” struck a chord. Innovation being a part of DNA of every CMU student was inspiring. When I heard my C.E.O stress by saying “We believe in a pragmatic approach to design and development” I knew it was time to move on, to think beyond pragmatism, to move away from the various self-imposed fetters and my pursuit has started with zeroing in this one program “Master of Design in Interaction Design” through which I can dare to breathe in life to my thoughts and dream projects. A program which will have a crystallization of different personalities - a tip of the pyramid where like minds from all sides meet
I would bring to the platter an Indian sensibility as I was nourished on heavy doses of South Indian culture. My experience can be put to test in the classes of the likes of Professor Boyarski and Professor Brodsky. And this is my Statement Of Intent, my reasoning to back my intention of dreaming bigger, and this I vouch to be true to the best of my knowledge :) :) :)
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