Unless you believe that future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so — Noam Chomsky I’m a hardcore Performance-Based Management person. I call it PBM. As soon as I created this abbreviation I realized that P can also stand for Promise…

Let’s stay vigilant in our daily behavior and not let this Dragon Sickness take over us Peter Jackson’s Hobbit is one of my favorite movies and JRR Tolkien is one of my favorite authors. What I like the most about Hobbit is the concept about the Dragon Sickness. The Dwarf…

Decluttering our mind of vines and pests on a daily basis reminds us of our true self/intentions We grow a variety of Texas native flowers that attract butterflies (monarch, queen, swallowtail) and bees (mason and bumblebee) in our yard. …

“SHOW ME YOUR ORIGINAL FACE, WHAT WERE YOU BEFORE YOU WERE BORN” — HUINENG, THE SIXTH PATRIARCH OF ZEN BUDDHISM. I’m not talking about avatars, the cycle of rebirth or about constantly changing your mind. I’m talking about how can you give your best in what you do, consciously die…

“Every act of normal folk that keeps the darkness at Bay” — JRR, The Hobbit.

“You have been dealt with a set of cards, don’t go looking for a joker," said Arjun Malhotra at a one of the IIT Alumni meets. Back in 2001, I stumbled upon my Guru during my quest for understanding foundational philosophy. When I asked him what he thought the purpose…

We often talk about how technology is disrupting business models. Beyond business models technology is truly disrupting and transforming human interactions. If it didn’t happen on social the event didn’t happen, that’s the mantra we live with. Social platforms have tapped into the psyche and have created this urge to…

In a customer-centric world that we live in, I am always looking to learn to my improve my skills. I initially started this blog thinking about why some of these are not dead yet and how some of these are pretty sensible. I quickly realized that these are lessons of…

I’m new to running, and I suck at it. I picked it up a few years back as practicing yoga on a daily basis took a back seat. I had managed to build up to 10k. Then MBA happened, kids happened, running took a second priority. This year I got…