Category Archives: Personal

Thinking about Shadow Scholar

Image via Wikipedia Came across The Shadow Scholar article in the Chronicle of Higher Education today. I cannot say I was disturbed by the article; one assumes these things happen all the time (and have happened since time immemorial). As … Continue reading

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Door handles – color tells the tale

How do you know who are your office Connectors? Whose door gets opened and closed dozens of time a day? Would you care if you knew? A lot of highfaluting and important-sounding stuff gets written about office culture, team building, … Continue reading

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Make Wall Street Risk It All – NYTimes.com

I do like to read this kind of Op-Ed. It makes me feel optimistic that one day, I too can write an Op-Ed with a 2nd grader’s grasp of history, facts, or reality and have it published in the NY … Continue reading

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Study shows pay discrimination makes sense

Just kidding. But what a great headline, eh? Men in relationships with women who made about 75 percent of the men’s income were the least likely to cheat, said the study, which was released at the American Sociological Association’s 105th … Continue reading

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Good riddance daily twitter updates

I have been going back and forth on pushing twitter updates to this site. I removed them for a while, but recently added them back in – right before stopping them again. While I liked having daily updates to this … Continue reading

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New York City is not exepnsive, and other stories

A few years ago I met people behind many-eyes visualization project from IBM. Today, inspired by other things I have seen in the labs I decided to see what their site (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com) has been up to. Always consumed by price … Continue reading

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Notes on Margins

Fred Wilson wrote: It’s gotten to the point that if I can’t interact with content, I don’t want to consume it. When I read books, I underline certain passages so I can blog about them later. If I were reading … Continue reading

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LinkedIn application for WordPress

I like the simplicity, and surprising utitliy of LinkedIn applications. I was surprised to see a blog post from one of my connections, and within a few clicks configured LinkedIn to show my own blog posts. Continue reading

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Copenhagen

I visited amazon.com today and saw that it picked Copenhagen (PBS Hollywood Presents) as a recommendation. I remember seeing the play in NY and being totally transfixed. So now I am just trying to figure out who I know  that … Continue reading

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