I recently had a conversation with the awesome Kathy Klotz-Guest about her new book “Stop Boring Me.” Kathy talks about her book, the power of storytelling, creativity and how it can help market their offerings better. Here are some highlights from the interview Here is the complete interview If you like the interview, please support… Continue reading
Is it worth taking the time to craft your words? I am sure you know this is a rhetorical question. The answer is Yes. Words matter. The words matter a lot. I know this first-hand because I spent over five years going through a deep study of Linguistic Philosophy. Let me use a simple example…. Continue reading
I loved the entire interview with Biz Stone at the Commonwealth Club a couple of years ago. Biz is super inspiring and super optimistic and shares his story from his early beginnings, failures, his friendship and working relationship with Evan Williams, stints at Google, Odio, Twitter and Jelly. And, lastly about his book – Things… Continue reading
Jeffrey Hayzlett has been a friend also an advisor to our startup WittyParrot. His new book “Think Big, Act Bigger” is big and bold. Here is Jeffrey sharing some ideas from the book: It’s time for business leaders to empower themselves and tie their visions to actions,advance themselves past competitors and closer to their business… Continue reading
Inspiration Arbitrage is the art of drawing inspiration from masters in other fields to raise your game in your own field. Note: “Inspiration Arbitrage” is a term I coined a while ago. The good thing about coining a new term is that you can make up your own meanings 🙂 Because of my varied interests that… Continue reading
Mini Saga #135 – Preconception Mark was shocked and amused when his three-year old son screamed, “Dad, I suck.” “What?” he asked. “I suck, Dad, I suck” the boy repeated. “Where did you learn that?” Mark asked “Don’t know, Dad. I suck and can’t get out, “ the boy said. “Oh, you’re stuck..” smiled Mark. Sometimes,… Continue reading
Mini Saga #135 – Leave Your Mind The temple door said, “Leave your mind and shoes at the door.” Nodding his head, Ravi walked in. An elderly man stopped him, “Sir, can’t wear your shoes inside.” Ravi said, “Ah..sorry, when I left my mind, I forgot about shoes completely.” They changed the sign reordering the instructions…. Continue reading
Mini Saga #134 – In a Fix Jenny almost knocked off Rich as she rushed out of YMCA. She was on the phone, “Hey, sorry for the delay. I was with a client.” As Rich recovered, he found Jenny rushing back inside. She was still on the phone, “Oh you are going to YMCA…let’s talk later… Continue reading
Mini Saga #133 – Boomerang Tom and Jack were arguing about a bug in the program. The argument escalated as they vehemently disagreed with the approach to solve the problem. Jack was angry and said, “It doesn’t matter what you say next Tom because you will be wrong.” Tom smiled and said, “You are right.” Watch… Continue reading
Mini Saga #132 – Banter At the end of the second over, the batsman walked aggressively towards the slip fielder. Andrew, the Umpire promptly gets him back. Batsman asked, “Why?” Andrew said, ‘Thou shall not get into a fight with the fielder!” Puzzled batsman replied, “But… I just asked him to tie my shoe laces!” Sometimes,… Continue reading