Unless you are castaway on an Island, I can bet you’ve been bombarded by Blockchain or Bitcoin news. Blockchain is the new cool kid on the ‘Block’. I have been reading about this for a while and I am privileged to talk directly with folks within the technology world who are trying to bring this…
Today India celebrates its 70th Independence Day. This day in a sense is not just the celebration of India’s independence from foreign rule, but also the celebration of the ideals of Independence / Freedom that are core to its ancient values. The concepts and ideas from India’s ancient Vedic scripture continues to inspire generations even…
Is Project Management more an ‘Art’ that is unique to the capabilities of few individuals or a ‘Science’ that can be systematically studied and applied predictably? The best way to answer that question is by drawing inference to the field of Photography. There is a rule in Photography called ‘The Rule of Thirds’. In its…
About 15 years ago I attended a presentation on Project Management that changed the trajectory of my career. Recently I shared that story and some more stories with the students of Project Management Course at Seattle University. This post is a summary of my talk. Since it was an hour long talk and I had…
This post is about a talk I recently delivered at my alma mater. Having listened to many speakers while I was a student, I always wanted to know what the speakers wished they knew when they were students which could have changed the trajectory of their lives. When I was invited to speak I did…
With lots of love my two and half year old son passed on all his flu virus to me in a jiffy and grounded me to complete rest over the weekend. It was a good time to catch-up on my reading and to complete some of the online courses. Amidst reading Einstein’s biography, Bhagavad Gita,…
Over the past couple of weeks, my two-year old son has made a strange and funny connection between two events. While I drive him back home from the daycare, he loves to eat crackers sitting in his car seat. It so happened that every time he finished eating his crackers, a BIG BUS drove past…
Today is Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary and I am recollecting the day I visited The Art Institute of Chicago during the winter of 2005. This was the venue where Swami Vivekananda delivered his famous speech “My sisters and brothers of America” on Sept 11th 1893 at the World’s Parliament of Religions. While at The Art…
As the ‘Time’ of the year 2015 comes to an end, I am reflecting on the Mystic’s message, you may have seen on my Pottery blog, on how we perceive the arrow of time and its effects. Entropy is the natural order of things all around us. The second law of thermodynamics states that the disorder…
As you may have noticed, I have been working very hard at practicing ‘Procrastination’ and hence was not able to publish any blog posts in the last couple of months. In this period, I have realized Procrastination is a strange beast. It gives you tremendous hope for tomorrow because you have all sorts of things waiting…
chakshuRA - as i see it 