Kishore Balakrishnan’s Blog

The man in the arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Kishore Balakrishnan is a curious SAP Logistics generalist who wants to make software work better for the people who use it. I enjoy fixing frustrating bugs that nobody else wants to work on. (reference: Craig Davey)

Kishore has been at SAP since 1995 and believes that the impossible is often the untried. Kishore prefers presenting with PHP and MySQL

1. dude doing something that interests him (read Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: FIRESTORM!)
2. Mensch
3. Son, Brother, Uncle, Husband, Father
4. hobbies and interests

It’s awfully easy to criticize the work of others but incredibly difficult to build something unique yourself.

Quotations

1. Yvon Chouinard in Don’t Buy This Shirt Unless You Need It : ..In an economy of abundance, there is enough. Not too much. Not too little. Enough. Most important, there is enough time for things that matter: relationships, delicious food, art, games, rest..
2. Jakob Nielsen : In the long term, we need to remove everything from email that is not in the nature of personal correspondence.
3. Thoreau in chapter Economy of Walden : The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

Site:

1. GoDaddy
2. TextDrive – But I recommend asmallorange

and NearlyFreeSpeech (no cron)

3. WordPress

Apps

1. Some Heroes
2. ..

Etc

• Not So Savvy .. Schlep

Linchpin: GaryVee from Seth Godin on Vimeo.