There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.
Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.