Archive for Global Affairs
October 9, 2015 at 8:17 am · Filed under Business, Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Trade & Development and tagged: COCA COLA, MIR, ONE, Pakistan
Coca Cola has announced an investment of 350 million USD in Pakistan. They will open new plants and will provide new employments.
Mr. Ishaq Dar has welcomed this move.
While I personally like Coke and it’s products that are far better than Pepsi. I am not in favor or this development.
Coke is all about water. They need new and cheap supplies of water for their products. This 350 million is a leak in our water systems as Coke will use all it’s plants to produce more for regional export than it will for domestic consumption.
Mr. Dar, please see ahead in the future and add clauses in the agreement that validate a strong control over the use of the nature and type of water Coke will utilize for its products and that should be set against a reasonable limit for export quantities.
I hope you don’t want Pakistan to dry up while Coke makes gains with a mere 350 million USD invested.
– MIR
September 21, 2015 at 4:01 am · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives and tagged: Bitcoin, CPU Power, DWAVE, MIR, Mir Moiz, ONE, Quantum Computing
Bitcoin has come a long way in how technology is now defining the central pillar of life on earth… Money.
While its technology is strong and the peer-to-peer model is stronger still.
“In my view” there is an inherent risk embedded within Bitcoin itself. This is the risk that the notion of mining of coins is dependent on a computational work which apparently CPU/GPUs perform and due to the complexity of math involved, is difficult, thus the creation of coins is controlled.
I feel this is an inaccurate and incomplete understanding. Here is why!
In the next 5 to 10 years super computing will transform in an unprecedented way.
Quantum Computing will make this challenge of mining coins a thing of the past, and the entity that mines the highest quantity of coins will dominate.
In my view, the technology of Quantum Computing will not be made public. It will be in the hands of very few still.
This is the exact statement of the inventor:
… “The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as a majority of CPU power is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to
attack the network, they’ll generate the longest chain and outpace attackers.”
Quantum Computing can work at a pace unprecedented in human history. It can work on a single task at multiple even infinite levels all at the same time to exponentially grow within a few seconds and evaluate the most complex problem.
Quantum Computing for the geeks: Wikipedia Article
Already matured and existing Quantum Computer: DWave
The control of Bitcoin will be in the hands of the authority that controls the highest computing power in the coming days and that means Quantum Computer owners will have that power.
NOTE: I am extrapolating the facts as I see them architecturally. I am not an expert in the technology.
– MIR
August 6, 2015 at 8:27 pm · Filed under Global Affairs, My Views, Social Initiatives, Spirituality and tagged: MIR, ONE, ParMir, Persistence
Imagine a runway never ending and that you are a plane.
Every time you think positive and push ahead you come close to taking speed and about to take off, yet every now and then negativity creeps in and you loose momentum. You feel like you can never fly and yet again at another opportunity you take speed with your positive and persistent attitude and are about to take off…
The secret is in persisting because when you keep a check on your attitude staying positive and you persist, just like the plane that takes off against the wind, you take off in life against all obstacles.
The key is not slowing down.
It is those problems and obstacles you face that lift you up as well.
The never ending runway is life.
And the straightness of path and the capacity to do this is the gift of Allah.
Those who persist reach, without exception.
– MIR
December 9, 2014 at 6:16 am · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Business Process Re-Engineering, Global Affairs and tagged: BCG, Crisis, Global, HR, MIR, ONE, People Advantage, Rainer Strack, TED
Rainer Strack is a Senior Partner and Managing Director at the Boston Consulting Group, where he is the global leader of the HR topic. He has written numerous articles about human resources, such as on HR controlling and people business in 2005 and on demographic risk management and strategic workforce planning in 2008, both published in the Harvard Business Review.
Listen to him on the emerging global workforce crisis by 2030.
August 22, 2014 at 11:49 am · Filed under Global Affairs, My Views, Social Initiatives and tagged: Eric Liu, MIR, ONE, TED
Eric Liu expresses his ideas on the need for ordinary folks to understand the dynamics of power in the society.
He makes a sound and compelling case we should all hear:
August 13, 2014 at 7:08 am · Filed under Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives, Spirituality and tagged: HUMANITY, MIR, ONE, Open Letter
An Open Letter for all Humanity.
They say that the first time Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi went out to help someone was when he became absolutely appalled at the state of affairs for the poor around him and went on the streets of his neighbourhood and started begging for the people. He wasn’t a rich man, neither was he qualified in the skills of philanthropy or social services, he was not even presentable. I am wondering what people thought when he did that. Surely many must have taken him for a beggar in the real sense and many must have judged that he had ulterior motives at play.
This was a time when a lot of social services organizations existed. There were notable names in the mix too. Yet he went ahead and did this.
Now when I look back. Perhaps if he would not have done that then, it would have been a big mistake.
We would not have seen Edhi the way we see him today. Neither would one of the world’s strongest social services enterprise exist in the history of this country.
The lesson for me is simple:
Small actions propelled by the power of a PURE and SELFLESS VISION create a momentum that few in this world can really comprehend.
This stands true anywhere in the world.
The only problem with visionary ideas of this nature is that they seldom sustain beyond the visionary.
There are numerous examples of high level social enterprise and Edhi is certainly not the only example. But he is the example of our time.
What about the time when he passes on. How strongly will his vision sustain? What moral checks and balances will work after his death to manage his vision. Will passing on the baton of charge from the visionary to his children be enough to sustain the vision. Can vision really be passed on like a legacy?
My belief and conclusion is that it’s not a sure bet that it will be. It can’t been sustained and the fact that so many in the past created such enterprises at various scales, yet when they themselves passed away, the enterprise either gradually transformed into a commercial version of itself or slowly and gradually died out like it’s founder – is enough to draw conclusions from.
Another fact that appeals to my intellect is why did Edhi use his name?
Was it self gratification he seeks or some other aspect underneath.
After all Red Cross is the biggest social services example in the world yet it does not have a name of a person – or does it?
Red Cross – The blood stained cross of Christ. Right!
It certainly has a derived name, Jesus Christ.
Is it important that social enterprises be driven by names of renown or popular figureheads.
After all the help for humanity is for humanity by humanity.
It does not matter which religion, political association, cast, creed or colour that human appears for help from, as a helping hand or a receiving one.
That distinction does not exist for a true social services enterprise. Yet association seems to do something to propel the ideal.
The association of Jesus propelling Red Cross and the association of Abdul Sattar Edhi propelling Edhi.
In case of Edhi he started with a name that had no legitimacy, no appeal for the common man. Yet in the process of culmination he nurtured that name to take on a life of its own that took its energy from the most humble and sincere character of its founder.
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I have a vision too. To create a social services enterprise for the humanity with no distinctions or judgements.
An enterprise that is driven by a name that all can associate with in history and is driven by the morality and principles of his character. A character that is accepted and appreciated by all who dwell in his teachings and wisdom from every walk of life.
An enterprise that is so transparent and self accountable that no one can ever pick a finger upon it and an enterprise so sustainable that it outgrows its pioneers, associates and contributors, several generations ahead.
An enterprise named Mushkil Kusha™ – (Problem Solver™).
As a beggar like Edhi. I am now inviting you all to contribute to this vision. I am standing on the roads of my neighbourhood asking you all to trust me with your money and have faith in your goodness and the possibility of it’s infinite continuity.
This enterprise will be a beacon of hope for all humanity unlike ever seen before. It will sustain itself in a way no social services organization has sustained. It will only die away when God wills it to, yet it will have the power and a spirit that people have not witnessed in their lives.
A pure and transparent system of human cultivation driven by humanity itself.
I want to lay the roots of this system in Pakistan. It’s a good soil for the cultivation of a system of humanity driven by practical principles of morality endowed in the teachings and life of a guardian of the force of good.
If you wish to contribute please fill in this form http://bit.ly/mushkilkusha and call me.
Contact me at this number: +92 345 20 34 333
Your contribution will be made public on a website soon where it will remain public for as long as God wills.
I am starting by committing 5% of my earnings to this cause on perpetuity.
To know more about who I am and why I have such a drive, please browse through my blog and find out.
God Bless You
August 12, 2014 at 4:47 pm · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Global Affairs, My Views, News, Social Initiatives and tagged: BARON FIG, CONFIDANT, MIR, ONE
Buy a book, plant a tree.
In this age of digital (everything), these guys went on to found a company that makes real paper notebooks.
It was a brilliant idea – As it turns out, most all creative processes begin with paper and pen.
http://www.baronfig.com/
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