The Fallacy of Truth - is every truth absolute? Is every falsehood false?
Five Done!
None of us are underachievers by any means. Nor has life not been worthwhile. It’s been a bigger roller coaster ride than any stretch of imagination. It just takes a bit of time.
Living the “Survivor” Life
This is my survivorship story – the story after cancer, the lessons I learnt and the new normal I now live with.
Struck by Cancer
It was a Friday morning. The aches were mild but nagged through the day. It had been like this for a couple of weeks and I had scheduled a colonoscopy with a gastroenterologist when basic medicines with my GP failed to cure it. I lay on the bed, the colonoscopy tube running into my guts. … Continue reading Struck by Cancer
An Open Letter to Students Suffering from Placement Fever
While doing my rounds across India, hiring from at least 6 IITs, I have seen how otherwise smart kids, lose out because they did not ‘brand’ themselves well. Here is an open letter to all those kids who are getting ready to step into the placement season, resumes in hand, dreams in their eyes, a … Continue reading An Open Letter to Students Suffering from Placement Fever
5 Stages of User Engagement – II : Living Through the Stages
In my previous post I talked about the 5 stages of the user engagement lifecycle. Now that we understand each stage, and the fact that the user's needs and expectations vary at each stage, let's delve a little deeper into how you as the service / app provider should deal with each stage: 1. Onboarding : Week … Continue reading 5 Stages of User Engagement – II : Living Through the Stages
The 5 Stages of User Life-cycle – I
When developing a user engagement framework, it is important to understand the user life cycle and plan to engage the user in different ways at each stage of the life-cycle. The user needs, expectations and goals change over the lifetime and not understanding these with respect to your service / app / site / product … Continue reading The 5 Stages of User Life-cycle – I
42
If you have read The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - you probably know about the computer that computes the answer after eons of computing: 42. And then we find that the beings who instructed the computer to find the answer didn't know what the question was and and they built another computer to compute … Continue reading 42
So Many Gods !
A compendium of the pinboards at several desks in the office (in India). About 50% of them had a picture of some (mostly Hindu) God or the other. Usually, the desks have pictures of more than one God - because there are so many to choose from and you don't want to displease any ! … Continue reading So Many Gods !
The Last Word
Many leaders (and managers) want to have the last word. The tendency is to have the last word first. You have a meeting room with a leader and some subordinates, trying to brainstorm. The Leader/Manager tells everyone - I am open to your ideas and opinions...blah di blah di la. One of the subordinates starts … Continue reading The Last Word
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