“What is this say hi thing . You seems to like it” she said with characteristic curiosity of a hipster who don’t want to miss NEXT big thing and be irrelevant . After all tumblr is about to be main stream , Twitter and Facebook are too crowded. Slashdot its too nerdy for her. Foursquare is too creepy for her comfort. She has nowhere to go.

I said I don’t know She won’t take that for an answer . For a hipster must know the answer. I know and understand her predicament . I was in her shoe for all my life. And facing the question from her now I m very tempted to label sayhi with a rational bucket. In doing so I will , in small way force this service to fit in with rest of the world. This is how things loses its identity without forming one. I don’t blame her. For I was like her.

Today I am doing my own venture a mobile app which is struggling to crave its identity . Everyone from friend too family to investors to users want to put my creation in a box .For their comfort and comprehension .

Few weeks back my younger brother is blessed with a baby girl. Today I boarded a plane to visit them in Bangalore To see the little Angel. I hate to admit that I too am looking forward to know if she resemble more to her father or mother. My own way of forcing an identity. Identity should be evolved , it should be discovered . It should not be constructed or forced .than only we can have something truly new and like Steve said ” push the human race forward” . But doing so require us to be comfortable with the idea of not knowing. To embrace this we need to revisit one of fundamental tenet of our thinking that being ahead of curve doesn’t mean knowing the answer before rest of the world but it means discovering ignorance before other and (more importantly ) resist the temptation to fix it just for our own academic comfort. Easier said than done.