A few days ago I was crossing an intersection close to a school. A few volunteer ladies were guiding the traffic and a tsunami of children. What impressed me was the firmness with which these volunteers were guiding the traffic. Some of the drivers, including some parents, were a little intimidated. Over all though there [...]
Read more →It requires more than a great idea to convince people to work with you. We learned that in school but still seem to forget how it unfolds. Recently at a startup event people starting flocking around potential partners of complementary skills. “I’m looking for a developer, are you a developer?” said one gentleman to another. [...]
Read more →A lot of cafes in my neighborhood display the work of local artists. Some of these artworks list the artist’s name and a price tag in case if you want to buy that piece. I have often found myself walking around the café appreciating most of the art displayed. So far I have never purchased [...]
Read more →So why did you moved to Bay Area from New York?, said a well-wisher a few days ago. You should have seen me blessing this question with an elaborate response. I enlisted all decision-making tools that I used to come to that conclusion: from fuzzy logic to decision trees to collaborative thinking to expert panels. [...]
Read more →If you are active in game-design community then the names of John Romero and Brenda Brathwaite must be familiar to you. I had an opportunity to attend IGDA event where John and Brenda were talking about their craft – the game design. I consider myself a casual gamer and an accidental game product manager. I [...]
Read more →I needed some quick business cards yesterday. I went to a Kinkos location in downtown San Francisco. I have come to compare my experience with Kinkos just like visiting Starbucks – pleasant and upbeat, helpful and professionals. But this one location shocked the hell out of me. Everyone was referring the business card related questions [...]
Read more →Recently a recruiter emailed me from my LinkedIn profile about an interesting opportunity. “I have an interesting opportunity, would you be interested?” his message said. Who does not want “an interesting” opportunity so of course I said, “sure…please send me some details.” The next response was…”I am working on a lot of opportunities…can we talk. [...]
Read more →“I have never been hired by a desi interviewer. Lets see how this one goes.” One of my colleagues repeated this mantra every time he was appearing for an interview for a new client project and got an interviewer with Indian sounding name. “Desi” pronounced as “they see” is a common way the people of [...]
Read more →You have your development team busy for the next unforeseeable time. New features are coming out of development at the speed of light. Everyone is busy, getting busier and busier. Senior executives and development and marketing and infrastructure and everyone else is having lunches together. In a nutshell life is good. Now the clients are [...]
Read more →Tim Ferris has been talking a lot about 4-Hour Work Week. Honestly, although his stories are plausible, I still think “its not for me.” Today I came across this presentation by folks from Nomadz.nu whose story seems more possible and I can relate to that as well. The main idea seems to be living across [...]
Read more →Last few days I was up at the Bear Mountain area in NY. Driving along these peaceful roads of Cold Spring area I started thinking about the life of simplicity. I wonder how can one live here? What do these people do for living? What is their income source? I have been wondering about these [...]
Read more →Have you ever wondered what is the future of Free-to-Play games. I have researched this question in depth in relationship to some work I was doing. Although these ideas are pretty crude but I thought to seek your feedback through this post. So here you. Democratization of Games: With growing casual, social, mobile and hard-core [...]
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