What inspires you?

Although I do play the occasional freecell or websudoku at work (are you smirking? ok...not so occasional then), I do consider myself a sincere worker. But my boss, believe it or not never seems to do anything else except work and right when I am at the crucial moment of filling in the last cell in sudoku, 'PING' comes an email (well...that could be the sound of my guilty conscience as well) from the boss, with the link to the interesting idea that I didn't have the misfortune to think about.

I absolutely revere my boss. Both back in India and here I have had the good fortune to work with some freakishly intelligent people. They think two steps ahead of you, have the most crazy ideas that, amazingly work and are...well at least for the most part-humble.

So last week when I got a chance to do an experiment with him (he usually is so busy that it is difficult to get him down to the lab) I jumped for joy. He thinks on his feet and to watch him work is like watching a form of art taking shape. According to him, doing an experiment is not the most important part, but rather thinking how to do it, is. And this guy just thinks of everything humanly possible that could go wrong and, surprise,surprise comes up with an answer....

I think it would suffice to say that he definitely inspires me to look forward to going back to work everyday. And for the most part keeps me away from too much orkutting, blogging, sudokuing and any other google product designed with the sole intent of testing your concentration at work.