Posts under ‘Introspection’

Pick up any statement from a utility or financial service provider and you’ll read pleas urging their ‘valued’ customers to subscribe to email statements and hence save a tree. Noble cause you’d say. I agree. And hence I did whatever in the Tree’s name they asked me to do to subscribe to email statements. The [...]

2009 is here and it couldn’t have come sooner. Time just flies by and by and by…………! 
2008 was quite an eventful year. Like all years I guess – just that 2008 is fresher in the memory. Traveled quite a bit – thrice to Delhi, once to Mysore, once to Chikmagalur, once to Coorg, once to [...]

We use Microsoft Communicator for instant messaging at work. Communicator has an option of setting a status message which is visible to everyone who has you on their contact list, but in a rather non-intuitive manner (see below; the pinned note; on taking the mouse over the status message of the contact appears as tool-tip [...]

Hell, rant again. Seems like I’m the most inspired to blog when I have a rant. Why on earth will I want to make a rant public? I guess it’s similar to just “talking it out”. So here goes.
One thing that really pisses me off is when people can’t say it straight. I don’t seem [...]

Must be a simple question for some, but the most difficult for me. I guess I’ve been trying to figure it out forever. Heck my conclusion is that I’ve no burning ambition in life – an ambition for which I may give up everything, or give ‘it’ everything.
A little secret. People often ask (typically in [...]

The trigger for this post is an interesting article from Atul Rai here. Atul articulates that from a ‘tacit knowledge sharing’ perspective (call it Web 2.0 or social networking if you have to) communication is probably not that relevant. He cites the SMS and twitter phenomenon has changed the way we communicate as people. Fair [...]

Yeah that’s what I keep on doing I realize. Sometimes run faster to do better on the job, sometimes to keep up with family commitments, sometimes for this and sometimes for that. Lately (just been two days), I’ve been trying to run faster on the treadmill (maybe I’ll find my L-Spot!). And that’s making me [...]

I thought I was a master at that. But today we could not get buy-in for an internal project that we wanted to drive. We thought it was a great idea and people will jump off their seats. But that did not happen. Here’s some introspection on what we could have done better:

The team selling [...]

Well yes, it is. It conveys so many different things to different people. For example, the graphic that I have as the header of my blog (as on May 14, 2008) is a picture of me smoking a hookah. I put it up because I thought it was cool. But today someone told me the picture ought [...]

This is more of a Twitter kind of message. It is 3:15 AM on a Thursday night and despite the (ill-) reputation of having the ability to sleep at any place, and at any time of the day, today is an exception. Probably because Sakshi is away to Delhi and I’m alone . Probably because [...]