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Darwin's theory of evolution and being an idea evangelist

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is best known for its quote on the survival of the fittest. The accurate Darwinian quote is as follows: Survival of the form that will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations. In Consulting , when we facilitate large group conversations, It becomes very difficult to herd every one together and try to channel their thoughts and ideas to one single conclusion.  Similarly , when we run large programs of works, it becomes very tricky to introduce change and make it stick. My experience has been to use the most famous and least understood idea of the “the survival of the fittest”.

From Idea to reality - The progress of an Idea

 I have been thinking of writing a simple app for locating trash cans at Chennai. The first thing anyone would do was to see if the idea has been already implemented. Sure enough, it has been. This is the app - Check it out. http://trashithere.herokuapp.com/ When I tried using the app, I found out that there were only few trash cans. This was a crowd sourced application. I guess this app was not used much. The Spark This led me to questioning myself - What problem led me to this application. I yearned to live in a place that was clean. My assumption was that if people found places to throw thrash, they would not litter. Going ahead with your idea