Reversing Heart Blockages - Angina

In the beginning of this year my mother complained about the feeling of chest pain and collapsing after walking for 400-500 mtrs. My mother is 56 years old with a normal BMI, does daily yoga and a vegetarian. So, it was a surprise that she had heart problems.

We showed to a interventionist cardiologist on 31 Jan 17, he took the ECG and showed abnormalities in the ECG graph and told us to contact her secretary and schedule an angiography at his hospital immediately and also gave 2 weeks medicine which included meds to control Cholestrol and blood thinners. In my family generally we are in favour of natural healing and hence I wanted to know if there can be any diet and lifestyle changes which could help to improve the condition. However, the doctors was more inclined in getting the angiogram done then about any natural healing.

Although, doctor had asked us to do the angiogram immediately but my mother was scared of medical procedure and wanted to do natural healing and so she said that the she would try to ayurvedic medicines for 2 months, do yoga and lifestyle changes and see if it improved her medical condition. In the mean time, even I had my baby girl born in Feb and it became too hectic.

She started taking Hrudyamrit and arogyardhini vati. Started doing every day morning  pranayam, kapabati, anolom vilom. Also, we started taking Olive oil and garlic in our diet. Research has shown Olive oil consumption helps reduce bad cholestrol and garlic acts natural blood thinner.

On 18th April, we again visited the cardiologist and this time he was furious that we had ignored his warning and had not done the angiography. I thought we had delayed things and it could have aggravated the condition.

Since, my mother was covered through ECHS we visited the Command Hospital cardiologist. Based on the earlier reports he recommended to do a MPI scan at Manipal Hospital and prescribed meds for cholestrol and blood thinning.

We did the MPI scan in Manipal on Saturday and visited the command hospital on Tuesday with the reports. Interestingly, all the reports were normal and the cardiologist cancelled prior recommended medicines. I was confused I was expecting some abnormality and when I told the doc about the ECG observations 2 months back. He said as per the latest MPI report, every thing is normal.

I was amazed that if the initial ECG report was correct then the heart condition has improved naturally over the last 2.5 months.

Android Studio Installation - Unable to elevate error

I had recently downloaded android-studio-bundle-135.1641136.exe
in anticipation to upgrade to faster development from my earlier environment of Eclipse. However, when in tried installing the executable it gave "Unable to elevate error" and exited the installation process without giving any further troubleshooting information.

Note: I have a Windows 7 Ultimate Service pack 1 running on HP Pavillion DV6000, 2.5 GB RAM

Based on the message I thought that probably its related to some permission issue so I tried the following step by step and tried installing after each step which eventually succeeded at the final step.

1. Changed the unblock settings in the properties of the files (for some reasons I don't see the property window many times.)
2. Run the exe as "Administrator".
3. Changed the UAC settings from the control panel to the lowest level "Never Notify". 
Even after following all the above steps I was still getting the error "Unable to elevate error"and I was totally perplexed at the behavior of the program and was wondering "How can Google can do such a mess?". Well, that wasn't a possibility so started to figure out who else was possibly messing around.
4. Next I checked the SHA-1 hash to ensure the program is not corrupted and found it to be matching as on the Google site.
5. Finally, I had a doubt on the friendly Avast Anti-Virus program's invisible hand in all this mess and so I disabled it for 10 minutes and started the android installation exe and Voila! it ran and showed its beautiful face.

Moral of the story : If you are getting "Unable to elevate" error even when you are executing as a "administrator" then probably you need to disable your anti-virus program for sometime to let the installation to happen.

Bystander Effect

Have you witnessed a fellow human in distress in public and failed to help? Incidents like teenager molestation in Guwahati or victims in Delhi gang attack, which many people witnessed but froze or ignored to help the person and became mere spectator.

Bystanders are less likely to intervene if there are other bystanders watching the same incident, people freeze each other, its more likely that more people see the same event more likely they will not help. Bystanders in a group always wait for other person to take the responsibility, many times the people perceptions of the situation is altered by the numbers in a group, and even though they may want to help personally but there are many thoughts crossing their minds - like appearing foolish or some body else would help.

In a group people take cues from other people around and there is a diffusion of responsibility in a group. However, if there is only one person on the scene then that person is more likely to help as it enforces that if not him the victim will die, there is a direct sense of responsibility.

Next time, If you become a victim and see that there is a crowd watching you but not helping then identify one or two person within the crowd and ask them for help and tell them specifically that they would be responsible for your tragedy due to their inaction.

Social Loafing or Social Facilitation

In teams where the individual efforts are pooled together and are not evaluated individually. If the team members have less apprehension of individual evaluation then they are more likely to slack off and tend to take free ride on the group efforts. Its true in both collectivist(although lesser) and individualistic society.

However, in a team when the individual efforts are evaluated and rewarded accordingly, it leads to greater evaluation apprehension and the individual team members are more motivated to put their best performance.

Sometimes, the members in group would perform more than their capacity if they feel the rest of the team is unreliable. Also, in some cases less capable would put in more effort to match to the higher productivity of other team members.

Groups loaf less when the members are friends, identify themselves and feel indispensable to their group. A small cohesive group with a task which is challenging, appealing and involving is more likely to be more productive collectively then individually.

Micro-economics Principles

Micro-economics is management of the scarce resources for the greater benefit of society.

Any opportunity available has a Opportunity Cost which is the cost of the next best alternative available that was passed over.

In a sequence of decisions Net Marginal Benefit Principle allows to choose the next best alternative choice given the associated opportunity cost with each decision.

The Invisible Hand Principle lets the society move towards making efficient decision as individuals make decision which maximizes their profits.

Trade allows people to exchange things and maximize their overall benefit.

Example :

I need to manage my time (scarce resource) across multiple courses that I am doing  (Invisible hand principle to educate oneself for better life) . Among the 20 odd courses I am taking simultaneously, I see that I would have to Trade some of my personal tasks to get more time that I can allocate to studies. Still, I cannot manage all the courses and have to choose only 10 courses based on their Opportunity Cost. And among these 10 courses activities (lectures, quizzes, assignments, readings, projects) I would have to choose activities based on their Net Marginal Benefit.

New Business Model in Society

Old Dominant story of business assumptions 
- Business is primarily about profits and loss
- Only Shareholders matter
- Limitless physical resource world
- Capitalism works
- Given opportunity, business people cheat
- Business works because people are competitive and greedy - Invisible hand effect

New Story of Business
- Business are for a purpose.
- Business creates value for everyone
- Most people work ethically and business increasingly have ethics
- Capitalism works because Humans are complicated and cooperate to create value
- Business and capitalism are the greatest system of social cooperation. Competition is important but value creation is the main engine of capitalism.

Business Strategy Anlysis

Strategic analysis is the evaluation of an organization current competitive position and the identification of future valuable competitive positions and how to achieve them through a business strategy

• Vision and Mission of the organization operation in product and market terms.
• Define the strategic Plan to leverage internal resource and capabilities to accomplish the mission
• Strategic actions – Individual actions taken to execute plan to attain mission

Building a business strategy for an organization