Archive for the 'Personal' Category

A Diary in the age of blogs

« 11 July 2007 at 2:29 pm | 6 Comments
Personal | Tags: »

I’ve maintained this blog and have regularly written in for over 4 years now.
In the process, I somehow lost the art of writing a dairy (log) and got more interested in maintaining a mostly-updated commentary on what I see and use.
However much I’d like to call them the same, they aren’t. My blog never discussed […]



The Obama look - no necktie

« 9 June 2007 at 1:13 pm | No Comments
Personal, Cool people | Tags: Obama look tieless business casual »

I didn’t know that my business casual, but not-too-casual, look already had a name in some circles. Variously, it’s known as the Obama look or the tieless look.
It’s basically a partially matched sports jacket and slacks with lighter coloured shirts, minus the tie and the collar button undone. For extremely formal occasions (like weddings or […]



Analogies: And why I love then

« 29 May 2007 at 10:33 am | No Comments
General, Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: analogies thinking »

Surabhi often takes issue with my liberal use of analogies when explaining both business/technology related topics as well as daily usage discussions/thoughts.
Her problem seemed to stem from the really obscure analogies I use in my conversations (and also, why I even bothered to use analogies in the first place!)
Well, here ya go … there are other people […]



Israel vs. the Arab world: Better marketing

« 22 May 2007 at 1:44 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, Nuisance | Tags: marketing non-violence anti-war »

I’ve often wondered about this … maybe it’s the last few years in New York and in America in general that has given me a better perspective on this topic …
The Israeli’s don’t like Palestine .. so they do better verbal/print marketing through articles/news/speeches in the americas. But when it comes time to bomb houses […]



Life and products

« 17 May 2007 at 5:44 pm | No Comments
Personal, Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: Startup Entrepreneur »

Life is too short to build niche products.

Yikes!
(taken from HitForge)



Subscribe to my mom’s blog …

« 3 May 2007 at 9:24 pm | No Comments
Personal, Cool people | Tags: »

My mom’s been blogging on and off for the last few years.
This year, I got her to promise me that she’ll re-start blogging again … and looks like it could be good for a while.
 
So, if you want to signup to get her blog posts by email, click here to signup.
Also, if you still can’t […]



Outsourced development and vacations

« 3 May 2007 at 1:17 pm | No Comments
Personal, Cool people | Tags: »

So I’m reading some random blogs, and come across this jewel written by Arvinder.
Basically, it’s the description of a software engineer at an outsourcing company in India asking for vacation/time-off to go visit his parents.
Read the entire entry titled “Leave!!!“.
It would be funnier still if it wasn’t true …
I found it funny because of how my […]



Movies: The best bits

« 28 April 2007 at 9:38 pm | 5 Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

There are certain parts of movies that I live best, and don’t mind seeing a few dozen times if possible. They don’t have to be related to the action or the actual story of the movie … often, they don’t even have any characters at all.
Just today, I saw some of my favourite bits again …
Gangs of […]



Man is always selling

« 16 April 2007 at 2:32 pm | 4 Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: Business Startup customer service competition selling »

You are always selling. You are always pitching.
When you are not selling your product/service to a customer, you are still selling.
In school, you pitch your youth and earnestness to earn some knowledge and intellect.Among peers, you pitch your ideas and recommendations in exchange for being identified and getting membership.During an interview, you are pitching your […]



My first sand castle in a decade

« 15 April 2007 at 1:24 pm | 2 Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: florida startups life lessons »

And how I re-learnt some life lessons that all kids should have known all along.
Saturday was another great, warm, sunny and calm morning. Which could only lead to one thing … books, umbrella, towels, salsa, guacamole and sunscreen lotion. On, and the sand, surf and water, of course.
An hour into the outing, I decide […]




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