Photo courtesy: jmtimages on Flickr As soon as you finish that project… You may want to celebrate. You might want to take a well-deserved break. You might want to go off the grid for a while. You might want to just not to anything and relax a bit. Before I make my point, let us… Continue reading
Date Archives → January 2010
Lighting the fire
Photo Courtesy: Laszlo-Photo on Flickr Typically all it requires is to light the fire is striking a match against a match box. What happens after that depends on many things. At one extreme, you can create a forest fire within no time. On the other extreme, you can just sit and watch until the matchstick… Continue reading
Polished crap
Michelangelo said it right – “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” And how does the sculptor discover it? Simply by removing all the unwanted stone surrounding the statue. Is this easy? No. Is this painless for the stone? No. Is this… Continue reading
Tip of the iceberg
Photo Credit: JohnW on Flickr Seems simple but it’s not. We make assessments based on what we see. What is visible and what our senses can make out influences our thinking all the time. Today, more than ever people are sharing information via one ore more social networks. This may give the feeling that what… Continue reading
Just because they said so..
Photo Courtesy: Litandmore on Flickr Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking about how many things I have done just because they said so. I am sure that is true even in your case. When you highly respect some people and you trust them 100%, you suspend judgment and rational thought and simply… Continue reading
Your Name 2.0
When you meet someone even after a while, they are seeing your 2.0 version. You meet them again after a while and they again will see your 2.0 version. With reasonable time between meetings, you change. You evolve and typically version 2.0 is better than version 1.0 What would you feel if someone does not… Continue reading
The silent killer: Mindshare erosion
Photo Courtesy: Monkeyc.Net on Flickr The biggest asset you have on your hand: Your time. The biggest asset you have on the hand of others: Their mindshare The biggest asset others have on their hand: Their time. You squander their time (their biggest asset) and they stop handing you their mindshare (your biggest asset in… Continue reading
Every cloud has a..
Photo Courtesy: Satguru on Flickr I am sure you completed the sentence and read it as: Every cloud has a silver lining. That’s how I would do it. But I had an “Aha Moment” earlier this month. January 2nd was my 40th birthday. I had mixed feelings about it – mainly because Kavitha and Sumukh… Continue reading
The case for "Free" (again)
A few months ago, I wrote on the topic – “The Business Case for Giving Away Your Best Work For Free” at TomPeters.com. My fascination with free started in early 2000s when I was leading an open source company. I continue to be amazed at the power of free. I was checking the bestsellers on… Continue reading
Just one more step…
Last week, I happened to be at Marie Callender’s restaurant and noticed a wine bottle on the table. It was part of a promotion called Wine Wednesday. On Wednesdays any wine bottle is half off. I don’t drink wine so it was not attractive for me anyway but upon further poking around, I found that… Continue reading