EVOLUTION , SURVIVAL STRUGGLE & GENOCIDE

I had the chance to watch a presentation of  Dr. Musa Albukrek recently about the evolution  of the world and the source of genocide (racial extermination) where he described that in our nature every single lifestyle is in war against other for survival. Those who are more powerful to reach the sunlight as in grass, find prey easily for wild animals are more likely to survive and evolve. Other extinct sooner or later against the outrageous assault of the powerful and maybe intelligent rival. This we called it natural selection therefter based on Darwin publications. No any grass can grow beneath pine trees as the resin partciles scattered by the tree and the dry needle like leaves cussion piled up who do not allow to grow any kind vegetation. But maybe some special animal or mushroom species

Natural selection and random mutation were the major source of a higher lifestyles,  life models until the invention of languages for a better and quicker communication and thereafter the writing ability to store the information or data.

A DNA egg contains three billion pairs of nitrogenious element unit. Not all the data is used for the reproduction , there are many redundant and inactive codes in it as it is described by Hawking. A novel book contain roughly two million of information bit but when it comes to libraries the gathered information  override DNA. Needless to compare now the internet which is surpassing . The rate at which the useful information is stored , updated and accumulated is by millions time higher than mutation associated by natural selection of the best fit species. By writing we entered into a different type of evolution.

Dr. Albukrek point it out that at the present day human kind DNA consist of %5-20 "Homo Neandertalis " and %80-95 "Homo Sapiens". It may seem amazing that there is no any homologous specie close to humans. Especially when you see breed variety of cats , dogs , fishes than you start to inquire for an intermediary specie between ourselves and our closest relative bonobo chimpanzees. But you find nothing. Dr. Albukrek is pretending that we "Homos Sapiens" are the criminals of their extinctions.  And this is the root of the genocide. Not very convincing right ?

Hamurabi laws is dated 1754 BC birging a kind of rights and justice to the slaves. While the abolition of the latest residual slavery in USA is dated 1865 . There is an incredible period of time that humans did not accepted themseves equal to each other? Were not we ?

When it comes the wars can we still accept it as the evolution of the human kind or a survival struggle ?According to Hawking the techological progression speed is now surpassing human evolution. In second world was if  sixty millions of human dies it is because of the advance mass destruction weapons that we invented. Atomic bombs in hand of some countries can destroy whole world in a blink of eye.

In his new book Sevan Nisanyan is pretending that Islam gave duty to conquer all non-Muslim countries forcing them to convert to their religion , if not leave them free in thier daily life by paying high amount of tax and duties . Ottoman Empire was  the paramount of this governance of the style and pattern. At the beginning  Judaism was their biggest adversary of Islam hence one can encounter defamation in many part of the Koran. Hence Jews confronted a more intense hatred behaviour amoung other subdued communities. Collecting by force young children of  non-Muslim communities , converting them to Islam  and raising them as a soldier was also common in Ottoman Empire era.

AvramAji
04.12.2018

DEMOCRACY AND ELECTIONS

Elections held in the last decades in whole world showed that –so called – “liberal” elections did not  drive -especially the emerging countries in a right way. It is true that democracy is the best governance system that mankind had invented so far , but still very insufficient to improve the life standards of the citizens. When you check the yearly  ranking list of the countries in the world for the average income per capita, the breakdown hardly change during years. Although most of countries pretend to be managed by democracy consequently free elections and free candidature ...Nothing change during the years and improvements are slow.

Moreover , well established advance institutions like European Union now is open for a debate for its existence even. Separations attempts of Catalonia in Spain, Scotland in UK , Brexit are just the consequences of bad management systems but not the candidature.

Erdogan in Turkey , Putin in Russia , Esad in Syria  , Kim in North Korea , Rouhani in Iran , Sisi in Egypt Netanyahu in Israel , Aliyev in Azerbaijan and many other leaders are remaining in their seats in every new elections although you spot a very  faint progression in their country. The rank of these countries remaining at the same level in the list of income per capita if not worsen. The sole exception is Merkel and Germany.

If we put aside Germany , why above mentioned countries continue to re-elect over and over these leaders while their country does not improve ,and moreover the gap between rich countries is widening.

Famous philosopher Harari – in his new book - tried to draw our attention to the cripple side of the democracy and free elections and free candidature...

Is free candidature wrong? Only skillful and experienced persons must apply as a candidate for a special governmental position. Today Trump has proven that  even if you don’t have financial supporters or  any past experience  in politics ,you can be elected.  

Another disability of the free election system is that those who are suffering in the existing system because of lack of job , expensive or inadequate education system , the absence of reasonable interest rates and long term credits for housing are not well represented.

Citizens of different wealth level have different expectations of the government. The persons with high or medium income do not really care much for "unemployment " especially prevalent in the low income layer. Or mortgage availability or credit interest rates. To lift up the low incomers section , high incomer level must do some additional effort , also to improve the life of the lower. The example of Trump  has demonstrated that if you are rich you can spend the money for being elected. A poor but skillful person get lost in the system. Hence we can deduce that at the first rank low income voters must be handled in priority. If only the requirements the poor’s are fulfilled than we can move upward the list of different level of incomers.

You may remember about audacious declaration of one famous actress , saying that her vote was not equal to the one ignorant shepherd in the mountain . Indeed well educated and experienced actress may have more foresighted view on various candidates in elections .But in fact the most needy is the shepherd in the mountain. The rich and famous actress is not and will not be affected from whoever win the election. Hence shepherd priority is considered.

Let us dream a country where only poor, innocent and uneducated people can vote. Such as you put a level of wealth to be eligible. I wonder how the situation will change.

Avram Aji

16.10.2018

THE STARFISH AND THE SPIDER -Ori Brafmau, Rod A. Beckstrom

This is a book on leaderless organizations. A marvellous survey on many valuable -decentralized- organizations like AA Alcoholic Anonimous, Wikipedia , Apache ...

The most striking example is about GM anger against Peter Drucker research made on the company organization .The findings and suggestions of Drucker was accepted as an insult to the management. What Drucker find out that GM at that time was extremely decentralized and departments were free in making many decisions hence creativity was at its pinnacle. Despite GM management despise Toyota took Drucker's advices seriously and implemented in his facilities from where success came .

The essence of this book is to give more freedom to all organizations for productivity, creativeness, sustainability , progression , and the happiness of the participants ...

The more you decentralize your institution and your company the more you becom resistant to dangers which may destroy you.

Avram Aji
03.10.2018

DOUBLE MAJOR OR MORE

At universities nowadays when you take few more lessons you end up with getting another degree which is mostly well related with your major area.

Life expectancy is growing quite fast. As written by Linda Gratton & Andrew Scott the new generetion will live over 100 years . Hence being retired by your sixties will become impossible and also to maintain the actual pension system. Moreover the saving accumulated during working years will not suffice for the rest of the retired life. 

The latters in their book they are recommending to adapt everybody to the new technology and continue to learn new skills and profession during all your life  and to be able to work until eighties at least. They are rcommending one year of additional education every 10 years might be a good solution for that.

There are marvellous examples in world of a very famous people that you know closeley. Here you have few examples...

JULIO IGLESIAS : soccer player , singer

RONALD REAGAN : actor , politician

ARNOLD SWHARZENEGER  : sportsman , actor , politician

ZÜLFÜ LİVANELİ : musician , writer ,  politician

DONALD TRUMP : businessman, politician

LEONARDO DA VINCI : painter , scientist

IZZET KERIBAR : businessman , photographer

TÜRKAN SAYLAN : dermatolog, academic, writer , NGO founder 

Write me if you know more!

Avram Aji

25.09.2018

A SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK -MARC MANSON

This book is saying that in life we are continuously making selection on various alternatives that we are facing. But not to recommend indifferent to life at all. You need to learn to select what is important against unimportant ones.

Is it something new for an ardent reader of self impovement books? No ! It starts by giving Charles Buckowski's life as an example. A famous writer and poet with a lot of nasty habits and a miserable life he had...

He is saying that you look after crazily to learn on how to earn the best ways to earn more money by means of books , courses, seminars et cetera because you think that what you have is not enough. You contemplate yourself in front of a mirror because you feel as you are not beautiful. In fact you never find yourslef  successful enough.


You will be less satisfied as much as you strive to be more happyin life. You need to learn on how to focus on your thoughts  and prioritize them . Finding something important and meaningful in life, is the way to utilize your time and energy efficiently.

Happiness arise by solving your problems , is an activity, a continuous struggle.

If you are feeling bad you must understand that your brain is saying you have unsolved or neglected issues in your life.

Very successful business persons mostly deteriorate their private life. The following values that we give importance in life just complicate our situation and put our life in trouble : joy , financial success, thave right all the time, being positive all the time.

If you want to change something in your life you need to be wrong in something.

Failure is progress, a way forward.

Behave truthfull in my relationships is much important to feel good all the time.

This a very nice book with good interpration of the contents.

Avram Aji
21.09.2018

START WITH WHY - SIMON SINEK

This is book which was advised to me years ago but never had the time read until last week.
Thebook starts comparing Langley and Wright brothers for the discovery of an airplane.

In one side Langley has every means to succeed while Wright Brothers curiosity and talent made them to succeed against knowledge and infinite assets.

Another comparison with Keneddy and Hitler was made in the book. Both of them marvellously raised and educated but their success in their life is totally the opposite.

The writer is asking “ WHY “Apple Wozniac and Jobs, Martin Luther King have succeeded ..

“Most companies have no clue why their customers are their customer”

“Loyal customers often don’t even bother to research the competition or entertain other options.”

“Knowing you have a loyal customer and employee base not only reduces costs, it provides massive peace of mind.”

“Just producing high-quality products and marketing them does not guarantee success.”

“It is exceedingly difficult to start building a trusting relationship with a potential customer or client by trying to convince them of all the rational features and benefits”

He listed as follows the reason we prefer one product to another:

1)Price
2)Promotions
3)Fear
4)Aspiration
5)Peer Pressure
6)Novelty

 He said that you have two kind of buyers : repeters and loyals. The aim must be to gain the loyalty .

Workers in the company is the backbone of success... Here are few quotes Simon:

“People who love going to work are more productive and more creative”

“Happy employees ensure happy customers,”

“We do better in places that reflect our own values and beliefs.”

“the goal is not to hire people who simply have a skill set you need, the goal is to hire people who believe what you believe”

“What all great leaders have in common is the ability to find good fits to join their organizations”

“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people

and inspire them”

“Most companies have no clue why their customers are their customers”

“Loyal customers often don’t even bother to research the competition or entertain other options. Loyalty is not easily won.”

“It’s in the tough times that loyal customers matter most.”

“Knowing you have a loyal customer and employee base not only reduces costs, it provides massive peace of mind”

“For the buyer, it has become increasingly difficult to know which product, service, brand or company is best.”

“Every day, the competition is doing something new, something better.”

“WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care”

“Companies try to sell us WHAT they do, but we buy WHY they do it.”

“Our need to belong is not rational, but it is a constant that exists across all people in all cultures.”

“We have trouble, for example, explaining why we married the person we married.”

“Just producing high-quality products and marketing them does not guarantee success.”

“Relationships also build trust. And with trust comes loyalty.”

“There is no difference between sales and dating.”

“It is exceedingly difficult to start building a trusting relationship with a potential customer or client by trying to convince them of all the rational features and benefits”

“Happy employees ensure happy customers,”

“Trust is a feeling, not a rational experience”

 “You can’t convince someone to trust you”

“Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to”

“Even a billionaire who loses millions due to poor decisions can get depressed”

“We’ve succeeded as a species because of our ability to form cultures”

“We do better in places that reflect our own values and beliefs. J”


“So the logic follows, the goal is not to hire people who simply have a skill set you need, the goal is to hire people who believe what you believe.”

"What all great leaders have in common is the ability to find good fits to join their organizations”

“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.”

“The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.”

“Thomas Edison, a man definitely driven by a higher cause, said, “I didn’t find a way to make a lightbulb, I found a thousand ways how not to make one.”

“It’s a subtle irony that one of the best customer service companies in the country focuses on its employees before its customers.”

“A company, indeed any organization, must work actively to remind everyone WHY the company exists. WHY it was founded in the first place. What it believes. They need to hold everyone in the company accountable to the values and guiding principles. It’s not enough to just write them on the wall—that’s passive. Bonuses and incentives must revolve around them”

“If employees are treated right, they treat the outside world right, the outside world uses the company’s product again, and that makes the shareholders happy.”

“The opinions of others matter. And the opinions of those we trust matter most.”

“Great organizations don’t just drive profits, they lead people, and they change the course of industries and sometimes our lives in the process.”

“Some who achieve fame talk about the loneliness that often goes with it.”

“There is an old saying in the industry that 50 percent of all marketing works, the problem is, which 50 percent?”

“When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.”

“We’re always competing against someone else. We’re always trying to be better than someone else. Better quality. More features. Better service. We’re always comparing ourselves to others. And no one wants to help us. What if we showed up to work every day simply to be better than ourselves?”

Avram Aji
12.09.2018

IT IS JUST STARTING - FARUK ECZACIBASI

Eczacıbaşı is big group of companies in Turkey working mainly in pharmaceutical and ceramic industry.Faruk is the second generation manager who wrote his thoughts about the actual world situation on various fields including his vaste experiences and knowledge.If you read the book you will notice that he is commenting about in so many fields and making many futuristic predictions which looks very probable.

Here you have the sentences that I highlighted while reading:

The actual new generation is facing a higher unknown things.

If a product is free thats mean that you are valuable for them.

In a near future the world finance system will turn to a mess by the new block chain technology.

Every new single robot will create 6 unemployment .

Reverse Mentoring is a new concept in our companies. We are hiring very young consultants for our managers to teach how to use the new world tools.

Avram Aji
14.08.2018