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It's kind of a big deal
Actually it is a huge deal! The face of terrorism dies. But what happens next. People who were following him, will they now be completely lost and unmotivated to cause further damage to the mankind? Or will smaller groups emerge...all scattered...motivated but disoriented...causing confusion and chaos amongst themselves ( Read more... ) -
You crazy, you!
It was kind of an unusual evening because I normally am not the one in my family to go grocery shopping. But on this day I was shopping at PCC and was looking for weekday-life-saving-items in the frozen section. And this old American female starts talking, still looking towards the frozen racks, “I love Indian food. I have never tried Kashi’s Black ( Read more... ) -
What About Our Kids?
We tend to freak out when our parents or grand-parents join facebook. What about our kids and the generations after that? Our generation has a ridiculously vast online presence and it is not shrinking. If we got there first, and gen alpha, beta, and gamma get online after us, how would they feel about us being so prevalent in a space where people ( Read more... ) -
The Weather Talk
Is it just me, or is the weather talk really boring, formal, fake and obligatory? I mean people can spend anywhere from 5-10 minutes (or more) just talking about the weather. I understand the hunormous impact weather has on our daily lives, but these conversations normally revolve around stating the super obvious, just a zillion times over, every ( Read more... ) -
One of my most important experiences at the B-school - Kenya!
Magnificent would be an understatement. The Kenya study tour is, hands down, one of the top 3 MBA experiences I have had at the Foster School of Business. Not surprisingly, this statement echoes the sentiments of a lot of other folks who went with me on this study tour. There is something special about spending two weeks with your classmates, ( Read more... ) -
My Poem on Deflation
What happened in Hong Kong in 1997, and, what happened in Ireland in 2009 ( Read more... ) -
Skytap: Going beyond IaaS
I recently started working for a local start-up in Seattle called Skytap. Skytap provides cloud computing solutions to businesses, and really differentiates itself in its offerings that go beyond providing just raw Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Its key competitors are AWS EC2, IT Structures, Rackspace, GoGrid, Surgient, VMware and Microsoft ( Read more... ) -
My iPhone and my social etiquettes
Three or four out of every five people I meet these days have an iPhone (at least in the Northwest). One out of every ten people I meet does not have a Smartphone. A couple of years back, I was weirded by all the smartphone owners and their need to stay connected every minute of their waking-hour. I got mine last year right before I started school ( Read more... )
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