More on the microbial existence: What it really means

While it is true that the last post was ended abruptly with a promise to continue....the truth 'really' was that all that microbial stuff and wikireading...made me sick (pun-intended)....so off i went to get that much deserved break....catch some good sleep and am I glad for doing that.

Heres some fresh perspective on the whole thing I started off with from... ummm a bathroom thought bubble!

By the end of the last post...i began to wonder.....am I interested in the microbes, bacteria, virus, fungi...? am I a biologist? am I going bonkers? am I advocating that it is indeed a great life to emulate..? am I talking about business or life? Material or spiritual? am I beginning to realise my assumptions are baseless and its a faulty hypothesis..? What is the hypothesis anyway? 

....so heres my quick recollection of the interesting revelation made a couple of posts back: Entrepreneurial mission: A Microbial Existence (sounds like a book title or something...:) (smug) who knows..:)

What am i stating through this title..? Well, as a recent aspirant to enter the self-starter brigade, I went on to link up the whole structure of my business plan...ahem...and the relationship a small start-up had with respect to the wide and wild market out there.. So, is it intimidating?...hell yes, but with many case studies from life and otherwise...the start-up is seen as only a little stepping stone in the growth ladder....as if a little sapling that would grow into a huge beanstalk that touched the heavens of prosperity in time....

That gave me the inkling to wonder why not remain a sapling....? Dont things exist in the 'small'? Are small entities incomplete? Does the market and survival strategy require a business to grow into a monolithic and BIG empire to live and prosper? This whole paradigm seemed to echo oh-so familiar Nature. And then began a quirky comparison and need to know if parallels existed in nature. Something to study or learn from and may be even apply as RULE...?? Not that I am a great fan of sermonising and idolising...but, definitely the truth and pattern-seeker in me wanted to know if its more than just my imagination. Nature and its anomolous traits are well known...but what I was after was the general pattern or trend...and if it indeed is a parallel-o-cosm to the market scenario and the survival and future of the state called the 'start-up' or 'free-lancer' or 'the independent practitioner' as opposed to the 'organisation', 'firm' or 'corporation'.

My previous short readings on the subject both scientific and spiritual led me to learn about the benign and the not-so benign and even disastrous or profane effects of the microbes read the single/uni-cellulars. Which for the first post... I saw as a fitting analogy to the small-time practitioners. Irrespective of the negative effects, I also realised a sense that maybe it is not just an interesting equation to entrepreneurship but also to useful innovation in life in the future, such as energy, materials, construction, mechanics et al. And a new vigour has arisen to investigate this phenomenon that I have just discovered but many many people around the world from various walks of life have referred to in numerous occasions as the key to futuristic designs in business, product, services and even activism and governmental systems.....Often reffered to in design as bio-mimicry, this aspect of learning from nature and extracting the metaphor and meaning along with nature's design, led to many new systems being innovated.

So..with renewed fervour and energy I will continue to trace the many ways in which a seemingly humble and non-important microbial existence can make waves in the larger picture of life and all its aspects. Makes me especially interested in sociology, economics, robotics, construction, democracy and organisation, strategies.... theres a whole lot that I may discover on the go. So here's to the new revelation and a well known proverb that justifies the importance of the insignificantly small...."good (great) things come in small packages".

Until more on this topic....Chitra's adios! (My comments are additional notes to this thread)