I have been going through a friend’s notes from his favourite classes at NYU’s Stern business school. The notes from Professor Glenn Okun’s classes stand…
One of the ways in which organizations and individuals can assess areas of strength, possible opportunities and blindspots is by plotting their personal and group attributes/ qualities on the Possession – Awareness Quadrant.
People who build products and run them live learn some lessons the hard way. For example: speed and haste are not to be confused with…
One attribute of our education/ social system that has always bothered me is the unnecessary competition that schools and parents foster amongst the children. It…
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Attributed to Mark Twain (not verifiable) I grew up in a household with two…
Recently, I was talking to a technologist I greatly admire about different approaches to problem-solving and product development. His argument (which I strongly agreed with)…
Growing up – all the way to engineering school and beyond – I was obsessed with mathematical modelling and statistics. The ability to model (correctly)…
I saw the Jon Favreau movie Chef the other night. Jon Favreau plays a celebrated chef called Carl Casper, who after receiving a particularly nasty…