chapter four – my 30s
I really like the guys over at Nestoria, a property search engine in Europe. I met them over at Yahoo! and they asked my to be their interview of the month. Here’s an excerpt, for the whole thing check out their blog. 3. Why set up your start-up in the UK? Especially in the current [...]
I love London. I love the people. I love the energy. I love me in London. I love who I become. How I think. And the ideas I have. The idea that’s really captured my imagination right now is three word maxims, I’ve spent three days in London and have three principles of three words [...]
A friend of mine asked me last night what I thought of the situation in Mumbai. I answered that I find it, like all terrorist attacks, crazy. It’s a sad reaction by desperate misguided individuals who don’t value other human lives as much as they should. After that I qualified my response by saying that [...]
Let’s recap here, fuel prices are going up and up and up. People want to have a work-life balance. The internet has revolutionised the way people communicate. So why do we need to be in the same place to work together? We don’t. Sure being in the same room as people you work with adds [...]
Jeff Jarvis has a great post on Walmart and good companies and bad companies, which includes my favourite analogy about making a bad product or company look better superficially rather then addressing the core problem; “putting lipstick on a pig”. What’s good? What’s bad? Good questions. To me, good companies spend as much time thinking [...]
The wife and I often get into a heated debate about how to solve the world’s problems. One such problem is war and violence. My take is that things like sport and business play a vital part in progress, and that politicking and government intervention isn’t enough. I was reminded about this as I read [...]