We moved home last month, so only right to move blogs as well. You can find the new blog at farhanlalji.fiftybyfifty.com.
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Finding my voice
The bee found her voice yesterday, so I thought it’s only right that I find mine as well. I’d like to say I’m sorry I haven’t written in a while, except it’s not true. I’m sorry for a lot of things over the past couple of months, but, sadly, not writing is not one of [...]
Being part of something bigger
I want Ad Avengers to be huge. So far it’s not even a blip. I’ve been working on it for a year, struggling to balance fund raising, product vision and sales. Truth be told it’s been a slog. Every step is difficult. So when the opportunity to be part of Seedcamp came up I felt [...]
It’s FARHAN
I don’t mind when people mispronounce my name. In fact I expect it. A certain sportscaster in Canada with the exact same first and last name has been mispronouncing it for years, so really it’s a given that at some point or another people will mispronounce my name. I accept it like I accept the [...]
Resolutions
The Bee reminded me the other day of the idea that if you write things down they’re more likely to come true. That and the fact that I’ve done some form of resolutions post every year for the last 3 years means I probably should write something about my plan for the year. Yes, once [...]
A tale of two ads #1
I’ve been terrible at following through with ideas for regular blog posts, but hopefully this might stick. I’m comparing two ads for two competing products and going to declare a winner. This week it’s Amazon’s Kindle versus Apple’s iPad – not the products, just the ads. So Amazon has a new lower priced Kindle, that’s [...]
Back
Being back in London for one week has been great. Socially, we’ve met up with friends, gone out without the baby and been spoilt for choice for take away and nights out. The Bee’s made a friend and been invited to a baby group, so it’s been great to be back. Professionally, I couldn’t be [...]
Company character
Stick with me this post might be a bit longer than usual. I’ve been hearing lot’s of people talk about how companies can be good or evil. A lot of this goes back to Google’s whole “Don’t be evil” line that was the unofficial motto around the company a while back. Part of it is [...]
Making things happen in 2010
“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 [...]
Is design online being given too much credit?
Okay, first and foremost I think good design is important, very important, I just want to start a dialogue here. Earlier this week I came across this post from Andrew Michael Baron, talking about how Twitter “could lose the game by design” and then today I came across this delightful rant on Metlabdesign about Zappos’ [...]