January 17, 2010
Pretty interesting post by Sara Sidner (CNN) about villagers fighting a big corp.
Only difference is that “Toruk Makto” is not Sam Worthington but a 75-year old Grandmother of three
I wish them luck!
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October 29, 2009
Today multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts are common-place in the sports and entertainment business. Whether we are talking about Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Celine Dion, Madonna, Michael Schumacher, Sachin Tendulkar, Alex Rodriguez or Dale Earnhardt Jr. – being good at what you do brings good things to you (if you don’t lose the plot).
A seminal moment [...]
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October 1, 2009
Once in a blue moon you come across a passage that really speaks to you:
I am truly a “lone traveler” and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance [...]
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September 13, 2009
Dear Readership:
My apologies for the 10-week or so blogging hiatus. I was attending Singularity University for the inaugural Graduate Studies Program for 9 weeks.
I am a sucker for knowledge. An MBA is the, still attractive, yet conventional option – Singularity University represented the road less taken. A road I am glad I took, a road [...]
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June 10, 2009
Here’s my feeble attempt at painting. I usually emote with textually or vocally… it is unusual for me to express stuff visually. I named it “anguish by moonlight”… to express a temporary moment of helplessness.
I used the “brushes” iPhone application to do this. By far the best painting application for the iPhone.
This has been released [...]
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April 14, 2009
In the upcoming 2009 General Elections, most of the political front-runners are not representative of India’s population. In a nutshell, they are old and disconnected with the global populace. Ignorance is bliss! Age bestows a sense of entitlement to some of them.
This is not to disparage their age – but more their reluctance to learn [...]
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March 21, 2009
Happy New Year all my fellow Zoroastrians. Here’s to a healthy & prosperous year ahead for everyone! God Bless!
Even President Obama digs it!
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March 4, 2009
I was browsing the McKinsey & Co. ‘What Matters’ site and came across a particularly interesting essay by M. James Kondo, President of the Health Policy Institute in Japan.
It is amazing that out of the 6 billion people on the planet today, 1 billion suffer from starvation and 1 billion suffer from obesity. The poor [...]
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March 2, 2009
Read a pretty funny article hypothesizing a world where Airlines inherited the traits of specific programming languages.
I figured I’d throw in my two cents and do…
Erlang Air
You arrive at a fairly rudimentary airport on your way to Tokyo. Only Herring is available in the food court, along with bottled water. No explanation is given in [...]
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February 27, 2009
The book is out!
- 40+ Contributing Authors including yours truly.
- 97 Useful Axioms for anyone with the slightest inclination for building sustainable systems.
- 2 Fellow Practitioners I admire: Gregor Hohpe & Bill de hÓra
- 1 Open Source Creative Commons License
- 1 Great Editor in Richard Monson-Haefel
It’s been a great team to be a part of. [...]
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