We're living in an age where access to information and resources is possible to most people around the world. This has empowered people and communities to devise solutions and create companies to implement them. There has never been that many startups and it's only getting started. In this age of innovations there is intense competition over attention. Companies strive for attention to provide their services to people. The current tools at our disposable range from design to
When we started out Yak six months ago, we relied extensively on the value of spontaneity. This has greatly benefited us in various ways; we still wholeheartedly think that experimenting in a spontaneous manner has taught us a lot. It is very much synonymous to how children learn, if warned about a hot cup, they'd probably shrug the warning off and extend their arms to grab it, but once their hands hit its ceramic exterior, no more cup touching for a while.
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It has been a couple of weeks now since YAK started. To us it seems like a year or so. It has been a thrilling roller-coaster ride that's only beginning. We got to work and meet with wonderful people and through that even if it was in a period of a month and a half we got to tremendously learn and grow further as people. It is very exciting because everytime I think about the amount of things we learned in terms of design, illustrations, animation or even in terms of managing
Amongst the inhabitants of the 21st century, dwells an unlucky tribe of people that supposedly lead the van guard of our modern civilization. I call them unlucky because, even though they lead the charge towards modernity, they perhaps have the least physical resources to do so, not just that, they also come across as arrogant, entitled and hotheaded to the other tribes. One of the most difficult of tasks that this tribe faces is the ability to verbally communicate to others
The Biggest ELEPHANT in the Room I remember a few months right before my last exam, my mental fortitude was an almost unbreakable state which only occasionally succumbed to academic critiques. This mental fortitude however existed out of my constant knowledge of the step beyond the one I am making at the given moment. I always knew what I had to do next and when I should do it. This tactical knowledge brought my overwhelming confidence that helped navigate through my daily li