• About Shajey

    Part sculptor, part dreamer, and part merchant of social, mobile, and consumer internet products.

    http://www.shajeyrumi.com

    Desert eyes

    by  • February 4, 2012 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Sometimes you do not need to speak a word and eyes says it all. Such are desert eyes. These wanderers and lost eyes. These friendly eternal eyes. Immortal friends or eternal enemies.

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    “The Best Taxi Driver”: Rewards in real life

    by  • December 16, 2011 • Conversations, Design, Gamification, Ideas, Life, Social • 0 Comments

    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 [...]

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    Can we play together?

    by  • December 5, 2011 • Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Life • 0 Comments

    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. [...]

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    Mind of a traveller

    by  • October 28, 2011 • Conversations • 0 Comments

    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. [...]

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    Game design is like building a rock not a statue

    by  • October 21, 2011 • Conversations, Design, Entrepreneurship, Gameplay, Games, Ideas, Life, Play, Questions • 0 Comments

    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 [...]

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    Nice or Fair – that is the question

    by  • October 20, 2011 • Conversations • 0 Comments

    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 [...]

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    Manners in times like this

    by  • October 19, 2011 • Conversations • 0 Comments

    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. [...]

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    Pride and prejudices of a man of curry

    by  • October 13, 2011 • Conversations, Life • 0 Comments

    “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 [...]

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