Learnings from USA trip - Part 2

While attending the tech review meetings - I happened to meet a colleague whom i had only spoken on phone and seen photograph but never seen directly. His name was Dan E, we happened to be in the same team during the tech brainstorming sessions. I had heard about him from my manager - he was one of the smartest software engineers in the company.

During the architecure - sequence diagram brainstorming - we all were kind off stuck in one placve due to too many engineers giving too many opinions. And it was hard to figure of which was the right way. Every one involved were in confusion and we werent going anywhere for 2 - 3 hours. Thats when Dan sprang into action. he calmly opened his laptop - didnt pay attention to anyone around - just kept on jotting down his thoughts in a sequence diagram. His design was so good and so easy that people wondered why they didnt think about it before.

i observed that Dan had the ability to think and "see" clearly even amidst confusion. He was very good in memory and reasoning faculties (the muladhara and svadhistana chakras). He also served the US Navy for 6 years due to which his willpower was extremely good. If you observe people who have come from the army they dont have the word impossible / difficult in their dictionary. They just come up with solutions and strategies. Dan was one of them. I realized how well Dan was functioning in the higher chakras - firing all cylinders. He had very clear vision of the goal when discussing design - never lost sight of it. He had even implemented one of the trickiest modules in an earlier project - he had written the code which would do the replacement of Tactical softwares Serial IP Ethernet. He was designing the next gen product using SilverLight Technology. He was the best architect i had ever seen for a long time. We became very good friends from aquaintances and he told me all his army stories.

The key to the functioning of Manipura chakra is never losing the sight of the Goal - and then using other faculties of reasoning and memory to shoot like an arrow towards the goal.