We need Jobs

I am not a great fan of Apple. All its inventions, human kind could very much live without.

But it is true, Jobs was a high achiever. Had he applied himself to more path breaking discoveries, a person of his creativity and manic perseverance, could well have changed the destiny of human kind for good.

If I were to cull out some of the diachronic contradictions from the life of Jobs, they would be a foster father, his knowledge of the same, and his obsession with the smartness of his father over the years as he grew. It was not that he was no longer attached to him after having learnt he was adopted, nor did he find his dad any less enchanting as he grew to realize that he himself was so gifted and smart. He continued to admire his foster father Paul Job while he excelled in his own new world.

At the cost of repetition, I reiterate, I am not a fan of the inventions of Jobs and believe that man of his drive and talent wasted himself in bringing to the world what he actually did, but I do know and with a certainty that leaves little to doubt, that more and more such people are needed in India, if we as a country must lead in some fields.

We need a Jobs in agriculture, where growth is dreadfully stagnating. We need a Jobs in supply chain which is perhaps the most inefficient in the world. We need a Jobs in power, the quality and condition of which will ensure, we are never a super power.

I live in the so called Millenium city of Gurgaon. In our residential complex we have a 24x7 power backup. Sometimes there is a change over 5 times in 5 minutes. This is ridiculous, and something needs to be done about it. Yes something will be done, the councillors will go to Bangkok or New York to see how their city councils manage their power distribution. That is how our system works.

We need a person who is as tough on others as he is on himself. Who sets himself to kill mediocrity, and would not take no for an answer.