chapter four – my 30s
“Getting things done is not the same as making things happen.” – Gina Trapani page 68 in What Matters Now. When you set the theme for your year as “learning to do”, you’re in for a long year. It was definitely a long year, but it was a good one. I managed to got a [...]
Had an interesting back and forth this morning with my friend Natasja about best of versus prediction lists. I like being nostalgic, but my preference is for thinking forward. Natasja’s point about lists being based on the “now” and not saying anything new, is a good one. But still which trends are going to follow [...]
There’s only one of me. I only have one life. But man I could use 3 of me. Today, Mira had her first Dr’s appointment, there’s an LBS alumni celebration and I’ve got really important meetings at work and in the evening. It’s crazy. I’m pretty lucky to have a great partner in the Bee [...]
Gonna try a new feature and blog about conversations I’m having on twitter (I’m @farhanlalji). Yesterday Aziz mentioned that it was going to take him an hour and fifteen minutes to take public transport to get to work in Toronto. He tweeted repeatedly about how crazy his journey, suggested improvements (like mobile phone coverage) and [...]
Karim Kanji asked me to write a blog post about, well in his words via twitter “I was thinking abt various places u’ve worked (cities) & the great things abt them for u?” for his blog. It’s a topic I’ve thought about, I wrote a bit of a critical post about Monocle magazine’s top 25 [...]
One of my goals of the year is to cross the 40 books read mark. Last year I got to about 37, and this year I’m at 17 over the half way mark. But I’ve discovered that I have a habit that’s holding me back. Historically, I’ve always tried to finish a book once I [...]
So Monocle released it’s most liveable cities list for this year (the list is behind a wall although there is a video recap, this site has the top line list). I keep trying to write about it and keep erasing my entire post. Let’s try one more time. I hate this list. I think everyone [...]
When I was young I wanted to be a doctor, I ended up in technology. It was a pretty big shift. I realised I just wanted to do something I loved and enjoyed, and I ended up doing that. In high school I thought I would end up in New York in my 20s, I [...]
I’ve written quite a bit about business-y type stuff on this blog and avoided writing personal stuff. Don’t know why, just didn’t feel like sharing. But I’ve decided that on weekends I’m going to try and write some personal thoughts, starting today. I love the word blessed. I think it’s a beautiful word with a [...]
1 year ago, twitter had few users. 5 years ago, barely anyone was on facebook. 10 years ago, if someone told you they didn’t have an email address, you probably didn’t give it a second thought 10 years ago, AOL, Alta Vista and Yahoo! were the internet. I used to be thankful that I was [...]