I grew up in an era punctuated by the liberalization of the Indian economy and India’s subsequent ascension as a power in the world economy. During the years that I was an undergraduate my peer group was comprised of people from Indian upper middle class families. So most of us, while not really starved for [...]
I have been wrestling with the idea of a comic strip for a while now. However, it has been a while since I did any serious artwork. More than 15 years, in fact. The fact was amplified when I tried to draw a face from three different angles and I ended up invariably incorporating simian [...]
Something that I have noticed in common across all my projects in consulting so far: There is obviously a market for a proposal generator. Wonder when someone will come up with the consulting equivalent of SCIgen’s “An Automatic CS Paper Generator“. Share:
May 302009
For all the money a consultant makes, the job is often thankless. Nothing exemplifies this better than today’s Dilbert: There are some parallels and some non-parallels between Asok and me: Asok, like me is an IIT graduate. Worse still, like me he is trained to sleep only on national holidays I must have flunked the [...]
On the RSS feeds that show atop my Gmail inbox I sometimes see a ridiculously priced HDTV or MacBook at an auction. Instinctively I dismiss the link as a scam. However, out of idle curiosity I decided to take a look at one such link today and I came across a really interesting business model. [...]
May 262009
A somewhat techie article after a long time, prompted no doubt by my travails at my last client! Read on if: You are in consulting Your firm uses Microsoft Outlook Your client uses Microsoft Outlook You want to connect to two Exchange Server instances at the same time Of course, you could read on even [...]
