Photo by Scott Umstattd on Unsplash We have become too chatty on social media. We don’t think much before sharing our opinions. Maybe it is because we are isolated and are continually trying to fil… | Continue reading
In this episode of Stuck@Om, I chat with my friend Ophir Gottlieb, the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Capital Market Laboratories. We talk about the importance of proper perspective. Ophir likens persp… | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Michel “Going nowhere…isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it… | Continue reading
These are not easy days to feel happy. Even if you try your best, you can’t really run away from the realities of the world — pandemic and its ensuing aftermath. Social disorder and growing inequal… | Continue reading
In a wide ranging interview, Columbia University professor and globalization guru Jeffrey Sachs discusses the new age of globalization in the age of the network. Excerpts & podcast. | Continue reading
In this episode of Stuck@Om, I’m joined by world-renowned economist, professor, and best-selling author Jeffrey Sachs. A central topic in our conversation is Jeff’s newest book The Age of Globaliza… | Continue reading
The Hey Controversy: Last week, the folks behind Basecamp launched a new email platform, Hey. Apple’s app store rejected the app, and it started a firestorm. Ben Brooks has done a great analy… | Continue reading
I miss baseball. And I miss T20 cricket, especially the IPL. And because of that, I have been busy having a lot of random conversations with friends about these two sports that involve a bat and ba… | Continue reading
A peak in Utah. Made with my Leica SL. | Continue reading
This photo is a good reflection of our world these days — many things are upside down. I made this image in Paris. The location was the ever so beautiful, Merci. How I long to revisit the cit… | Continue reading
I was reading Nikita Prokopov’s blog this morning and came across his very visual damnation of what is wrong with Dropbox. Like me, he too had thought that “in the beginning, Dropbox wa… | Continue reading
This isn’t the first time I have written about the dichotomy of technology. We are often caught between convenience and consequences. Some of the consequences are of our own making. But often, ther… | Continue reading
Especially as post-pandemic problems pile up, many media companies blame the Internet giants as the cause of all their troubles. Of course, almost nobody blames their own short-sightedness in ignor… | Continue reading
Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name, And they’re always glad you came; You want to be where you can see, Our troubles are all the same; You want to be where everybody kno… | Continue reading
Perhaps realizing that the internal mutiny and mistrust of his leadership was spreading quickly, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg brought back Chris Cox, a long term employee who had quit the company l… | Continue reading
On the 100th day of my isolation, I decided to go and meet Chris Michel and family for a socially distant walk on the beach. Well, less beach, more sand at Fort Funston, one of the most beautiful a… | Continue reading
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the … | Continue reading
Past few weeks, I have made me wonder if all those politicians and talking heads who profess and talk about upholding American values, value one thing that every human should value — life. No… | Continue reading
It has been 102 days since I started self-isolating myself and dealing with the pandemic. This forced break from the normalcy has led to my conversations with self, that continue to reshape my own … | Continue reading
In this episode of Stuck@Om, my friend Barry Ritholtz joins me to discuss our current existence. Barry is the CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, an avid blogger, and a prolific author. As a columni… | Continue reading
To put it mildly, the last ten days have been tough to watch. Following the news triggers anger, and it makes me feel ashamed. At the same time, I am encouraged by a new generation working hard to … | Continue reading
Photo by Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the behaviors we had already been dabbling with, such as cord-cutting, streaming videos, and working from home. As othe… | Continue reading
This set of photos is from a few years ago when I went for a walk to the LandsEnd. It is a magical part of San Francisco, and it takes some special effort to walk all the way out there (and back.) … | Continue reading
The current societal crisis in America, highlighted by the large scale protests in most major cities (and some small towns) has pushed the COVID-19 pandemic off the front page of our mind. But let&… | Continue reading
Juneau, Alaska, 2017. Made with Leica SL Sometimes a photos is worth a thousand words. Sometimes three words are worth a million feelings. | Continue reading
Another sleepless night. The events of recent days and the agony of being forced indoors by the pandemic are having a cumulative effect on my emotions. I am treading water through waves of sadness,… | Continue reading
One vote doesn’t seem like much. On its own, it hardly matters at all. But if you think of yourself as part of something bigger — America, let’s say — then that one vote can make a difference. Many… | Continue reading
There are days when outside events start to influence your productivity and mental health. The growing discord in our society, the tone-deaf nature of our leaders, and the sheer magnitude of death … | Continue reading
Photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash By now you are likely sick and tired of all the news around Joe Rogan signing a megadeal with Spotify. Me too! I mean, I liked Spotify for what it was: a great … | Continue reading
My favorite way to decompress is straightforward — turn off the phone, get off the Internet, and instead of reading some heavy and complex book, pick up a good old fashioned detective novel. … | Continue reading
I wanted to go out and make photographs. Instead, I turned off my alarm and just lay on my back, looking at the ceiling, as if constant staring could turn it into a big blue vista. I kept thinking … | Continue reading
Photo by Anna Pelzer on Unsplash If you have been a reader for a long time, it should come as no surprise to you that, while I eat simply at home, I have a fondness for food and the artists who cre… | Continue reading
Photo by Michael Anfang on Unsplash Early this morning, I woke up from a vivid dream with a full narrative that saw someone visit a rural home, and fell in love with the idea of raising chickens an… | Continue reading
San Francisco was a very bleak place in the aftermath of the dot.com meltdown that began in the spring of 2000. Every single day of that summer I woke up to the news of more layoffs, more shutdowns… | Continue reading
Venice, Italy. 2018 A long exposure from the top of the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy! The original color photo wasn’t anything to write home about, but when I applied my B&W preset to t… | Continue reading
In this episode of Stuck@Om, I chat with one of the great human beings on the planet — Nicholas Thompson. He’s the Editor in Chief at WIRED Magazine, an avid marathoner, and has penned one of the b… | Continue reading
Photo by 金 运 on Unsplash This past week Facebook became one of the largest proponents of remote work. It made headlines for considering allowing people to permanently work from home.… | Continue reading
In this episode of Stuck@Om, I chat with one of the great human beings on the planet — Nicholas Thompson. He’s the Editor in Chief at WIRED Magazine, an avid marathoner, and has penned one of the b… | Continue reading
The New York Times recently wrote about this hot new app that has been the buzz among technology insiders for a while — Clubhouse.((The Hot New Thing Clubby New York.)) There are rumors of th… | Continue reading
My daily reading and work spark some thoughts. I jot down these musings in a daily document, I maintain in the Bear App. I have been doing this since my earliest days as a report. Have a look my to… | Continue reading
So Facebook is taking on Amazon with its Shops, powered by Shopify. I don’t know why that agreement kept reminding me of that deal I read about as a young lad: Americans teaming with the rebels to … | Continue reading
Softbank Investor Deck Sometimes when we find ourselves on the third base, we think we hit a triple. It doesn’t matter if we got there by series of luck of the draw. I mean a botched throw that tur… | Continue reading
This just might be the best thing you read today. “This virus has been, both literally and metaphorically, a disease of modernity. Why? Because It attacks via the vectors of modernity: trade linkag… | Continue reading
Photography has taught me that brightness and darkness are merely a reaction to one another. Sometimes, just making a few elements of an image a little darker, you make other aspects brighter and m… | Continue reading
Photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash Today is yet another Monday in the pandemic — 12th, to be exact. And just like that, I am on day # 80 of the self-quarantine. It is as if life has always been this… | Continue reading
In this episode of Stuck@Om, Herman Narula joins me in a conversation about our future. Herman is the CEO of Improbable, a company that is obsessed with multiplayer games and builds the underlying … | Continue reading
Venice has lost its tourists. Watch what the locals have to say and how they are dealing with the shutdown. [YouTube] The timing of the video was fruitious. I had just shared a photo on Instagram, … | Continue reading