Beggars can’t be choosers
Here I’m still stuck in Toronto, after 2 days of trying to get to Mumbai via New York. Bad weather in NY and heavy travel season in North America has left me with no option but to be stranded in...
View ArticleAnywhere I may roam, where I lay my head is home
And yes, finally I made it home this morning. After wasting 5 days in Canada, I finally reached home this morning. BTW if you are wondering what I was doing in Canada after my bad experience last time,...
View ArticleInfluencing Others
Clarity of Thoughts and Clarity of Actions is very important when it comes to influencing people around you. The how do you get clarity of thoughts and clarity of actions? Staying in the trenches...
View ArticleMillion Ways to Kill your Project
Most often I find people introducing all forms of accidental complexity and screwing up their projects. Over the years I’ve learnt some powerful ways to kill a project/organization. Mediocracy over...
View ArticleWays to Control Traffic
Some people think, traffic lights is THE ONLY way to control and regulate (manage) traffic flow. For others, esp. those who have seen round-abouts or circles in European countries, know that in some...
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What am I Thinking About
Related posts: How much Upfront Thinking? How much upfront planning, analysis and/or design do you do on your projects? For me the answer depends. The more... Why computer tools get in the way of your...
View ArticleGetting Paid to Learn
Would it not be great to get paid to learn new stuff? Unfortunately, we all get lots of offers where we know (at least have this feeling) that either I can earn a lot or I can learn a lot. Somehow its...
View ArticleIndustrial Logic, India (Asia)
As you might already know, from 1st Oct 09, I’ve joined Industrial Logic full time. I’ll be based out of Mumbai. Over the last two years, I’ve done various training and consulting gigs (part-time) for...
View ArticleFun way to Conserve Energy
”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take...
View ArticlePost-Modern Agile
Beyond dogma, beyond ceremony, beyond logical & rational bull-shit, detaching self from cutting edge agile practices to embrace, scale & sustain essential agility. From Fail Safe...
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Browser Penetration Stats from my Blog
I was just looking through the Google Analytics on my blog, I was surprised to see Firefox dominate the browser usage race. Also surprised to see how fast Google Chrome has penetrated the market. (Over...
View ArticleSocial Credibility: Alternatives to Certification?
There is something very powerful about online education (eLearning). Assuming that one can create really good courses, it enables any individual to start competing with the large Universities. (Many...
View ArticleA Message from Captain Planet
A message from Captain Planet (aka Saurabh Arora) showing the effect of global warming and how we can take small steps everyday to avoid further worsening the situation. Agile Bengaluru 2010 Conference...
View Article11 People Who Changed the World and who Died in 2011 (And Were Not Named Steve)
Dennis Ritchie – one of the creators of the Unix operating system and author of C programming language Ken Olsen – Co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp, the company that built PDP-7 (first computer to...
View ArticleAll Your Money Are Belong To Us [Spam from FBI Headquarters, Washington]
Recently I got this really “stupid” spam from some claiming to be FBI. It really made me laugh. Do people really fall for this crap? First of all: Someone from FBI sends an email from sbcglobal.net and...
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