Life works in interesting ways. If you put your heart out and do the best you can, you get a lot more help from outside than you really want. If you slack and HOPE that things will turn out well, you are all alone. Take Gmail from google. When Google introduced Gmail, there were no… Continue reading
Date Archives → June 2005
Shawshank Redemption – Redefining persistence…
Shawshank Redemption has been one of my favorite movies for a long time. Here’s my take: The protagonist in Shawshank Redemption is an amazing person and he was willing to wait a few years (working silently) to finally achieve his objectives. Most professionals today have an opposite attitude. They want instant results and instant success…. Continue reading
Energizing the workplace – Fish Market story
A few years ago, I read a cool book called Fish that talked about energizing the workplace. The book was based on the authors’ findings from a small fish market at Pike Place in Seattle. I was intrigued by the simple message in the book. Since then, I have visited Seattle several times but never… Continue reading
Digital Video Recorders – When is the tipping point?
DVR is an example of a game changing innovation. Just like Napster forever changed the way music industry thinks and works, DVRs are out to change the way TV industry thinks and works. TiVo and ReplayTV are the two prominent players and I am sure there are many more to come. When I last checked,… Continue reading
Working from airport
I think there should be an option to work from airport. We have working from office, working from home why not working from airport. I am sitting here at the San Jose airport trying to get a flight to go to Seattle. I have been here for the last few hours. With a broadband connection… Continue reading
Leveraging the value chain – part II
I was intrigued about the offer from Fedex “File, Print Fedex Kinkos” and decided to give it a try. First, it installed the .Net framework on my PC (which I was not happy but anyways) and then added teh FilePrint icon on office applications. I wanted to print a PDF file in a Fedex facility… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Leveraging the value chain
I was at Fedex this morning and while waiting for them to complete my job, I browsed through one of their new offers “File, Print Fedex Kinkos“. It was, in a nutshell, a very compelling offer. A few months ago, I was shipping printed copies of my manuscript all over the place to get endorsements…. Continue reading
Three stories from Steve Jobs – What's your story?
There is a lot of news about the speech ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ by Steve Jobs at Stanford recently. I read about it Brad‘s blog and then at Tom‘s blog. You have to take a few minutes to read it and get inspired. I had no idea of Steve’s past and my… Continue reading
Tom complains about Starbucks lines – A solution
Tom talks about his “line intolerance” at starbucks. I have thought about this problem at least ten times. There are long lines especially during peak hours (morning, post lunch and early evening) and interestingly while Starbucks has been innovative a number of times, they don’t seem to do anything about this. May be Starbucks thinks… Continue reading