Why does it feel like its 1999 on the Internet? If you feel that your network is slower than usual, you are not alone. Everyone is experiencing the same thing. That said, the Internet is … | Continue reading
My work desk: iPad Pro w/KeyChron K2 mechanical keyboard & new Apple TrackPad On the news, on social media and in personal communication apps, there seems to seems to be a continuing end of the… | Continue reading
James Seng, a long time Internet expert, and investor based in Singapore, has published three informative posts on how to buy medical supplies from China. I have known of Seng and his work, and he … | Continue reading
It has been a wet and gloomy weekend around these parts. I don’t mind the rain — it usually quietens the world around me. But this weekend it makes the world seem a bit eerier. It is al… | Continue reading
I feel a certain kinship with Mark Cuban, the owner of Dallas Mavericks and an investor in many companies. Except for owning the NBA team part. Or being a billionaire. Or being white. Still, I like… | Continue reading
My good friend Anne Dwane (General Partner at an early-stage venture capital firm, Village Global) joins me in this episode of Stuck@Om to chat about how we are both navigating life at home during … | Continue reading
Photo courtesy of Cinqpoints Let’s acknowledge that things out there are pretty bleak. Chances are, like me, you are stuck at home looking at the growing body count. And it’s hard to know where to … | Continue reading
Made with Fuji xPro2 about four years ago. As a landscape photographer who loves making abstracts, there is nothing more frustrating than not being able to go out and practice my skills. I was feel… | Continue reading
A few months back — feels like an eternity now — I visited Utah, and it was somewhere out there, I took this photograph. I never got around to either editing or sharing it, mostly becau… | Continue reading
Today, I am kicking off a new podcast series — Stuck @ Om. This is a series of casual but candid conversations with people whose opinions I respect, and enjoy learning from. I get on the Zoom… | Continue reading
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash My parents, grandparents, and extended family would often talk about the lessons of The Bhagavad Gita and other ancient Indian learned texts as … | Continue reading
I needed some distractions from the harsh reality of modern-day America. We have always known that there are two Americas: One made up of normal people and another in which a convicted felon and ra… | Continue reading
A few days ago, a friend messaged and introduced me to her friend – a doctor who works at a major ER in Southern California. The doctors in her hospitals were trying to deal with the COVID-19 Crisi… | Continue reading
I like the Golden Gate Bridge. But, I love the Bay Bridge. It is ever-changing. It feels like a mongrel — a mixture of styles. It doesn’t have the sweeping grace of its tonier cousin. It has … | Continue reading
Made with Leica SL2 and SL Summicron f2/50mm lens. | Continue reading
In 2006, I started a blog called, WebWorkerDaily. As an early believer in the power of broadband and the disruptive nature of the networks, I sensed that the future of work was distributed. As it t… | Continue reading
Sunday in San Francisco can be either of two things — warm and sunny, or what it usually is – grey, cold, and somewhat windy. Yesterday was no different. Highs of 61 degrees Fahren… | Continue reading
Whether it is tech-bros or political opportunists, we have reverted back to our usual narcissistic selfish and politically divided self within a week. It is impossible to use social platforms and n… | Continue reading
Every morning I wake up, go for a walk and come home, long before I have encountered any other humans. I don’t want to see another soul, being distrustful not only of them but of myself. Are they i… | Continue reading
Photo by Jesse ramirez on Unsplash It takes 797 round trips from one side of my apartment to the other to get to 10,000 steps each day. The more preferable option is to get up at 4:3… | Continue reading
It has been a hellish few days, to say the least. Over the past seven days, I blogged some of the important articles and linked to relevant data and research, so we could all become smarter about t… | Continue reading
It seems that most in the medical community around the country are flying blind – sharing snippets of information anonymously over Facebook and Twitter. An emergency room doctor told a friend… | Continue reading
A few days ago before self-quarantine kicked in, I went out to make some photographs from the rooftop of a friend’s office building. It was a particularly hard evening to get things right … | Continue reading
Most of my life, as a common man, I have lived with one reality — I will never understand how the world works. I will never understand the complexity of power, money, and human motivation. I don’t … | Continue reading
“Self-publishing,” as my friend ((Brian Trunzo)) says, is the “Internet’s greatest gift is, of course, its greatest curse.” And nothing brought that home to me more than what happened last ev… | Continue reading
For the first time since the pandemic started and I placed myself into a quasi self-quarantine, I had a very bad night. A sense of anxiety overcame me that, even during the sleeping hours, I kept w… | Continue reading
Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash In the end, it is all about trust. Once that is lost, it is hard to regain it. It is especially difficult on social media and the Internet. Instagram, Twi… | Continue reading
Like everyone else, I have become anxious about the Coronavirus Pandemic. It is hard to discern the actual impact, especially since social media is conflating facts with fiction. I have begun keepi… | Continue reading
San Francisco and its geography make it easy to capture landscapes. Sometimes it is the beach, and other times it is just a pier in my neighborhood. I have been in a self-imposed quarantine and as … | Continue reading
IO 50. Focal Length: 85mm. Aperture: f/4.0. Shutterspeed 1/800th of a second. Made with Leica SL. I was fascinated by the Telescope Peak when I visited the Death Valley National Park earlier this y… | Continue reading
The actual chemistry of hand sanitizers is what really helps define if they are effective against infections. If they have key ingredients such as types of alcohol (about 60 percent at least), … | Continue reading
Photo by Suganth on Unsplash The Coronavirus Pandemic is on our doorstep, whether we like it or not. Between outright dismissal (crazy) and panic (understandable), there is a middle ground of being… | Continue reading
ISO 50. Focal Length: 90mm. Aperture: f/8. Shutter Speed: 1/640th of a second. Made with Leica SL & Leica APO Vario-Elmarit 2.8-to-4/90-280 lens According to Wikipedia, Devil’s Golf Cours… | Continue reading
New systems don’t necessarily kill old ones. They just stop them in their tracks. It’s an important distinction because it means that those who are accustomed to the old way of doing things have a … | Continue reading
ISO 50. Focal Length 280mm. Aperture: f/8. Shutter Speed: 1/250th of a second. Made with Leica SL | Continue reading
Made with Leica SL2. ISO:50. Focal Length: 90mm. Aperture: f/5.6. Shutter Speed: 1/500 second. A few weeks ago, I stayed the night in Independence. I woke up early and walked all the way to the edg… | Continue reading
My friend Matt asked me what was I giving up for Lent*. I am not religious, but I support my friends. So, I decided to give up Instagram for the Lent, which means that I won’t be sharing any … | Continue reading
Made with Leica SL 2. ISO: 50. Focal Length:90mm. Aperture: f/5.6. Shutter Time: 2.0 seconds *Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada. It has an … | Continue reading
It was about three years ago I visited Japan for a photo adventure. I was taking a walk past this bamboo grove on a decidedly dark and gloomy day. The light was quite flat. The undergrowth was dark… | Continue reading
Given that we live in a world that is so intensely photographed, we have to think about photography as interpretive. And that is why often go back to this observation from the legendary photographe… | Continue reading
Samsung Z Flip, Thom Browne Edition As a persistent iPhone user, it is hard for me to really keep up with the latest and greatest in smartphones. A handful of writers — Dieter Bohn at The Verge, fo… | Continue reading
Whenever I am anxious, I have trouble sleeping. I find myself tossing, turning, and waking up in the middle of the night just to sit and stare into the dark. Over the holidays, I had one of those p… | Continue reading
Badlands, Death Valley with Leica SL2. ISO 50. Focal length 50mm. Aperture f/9. Shutter Speed 1/200th of a second Though only separated by 500 miles of tarmac, Silicon Valley and Death Valley might… | Continue reading
Utah 2019. Lecia SL2. ISO 50. Focal Length 90mm. Aperture f/8 Shutterspeed 1/200th of a second I was quite captivated by the cows walking and grazing in the snow. There is but a hint of grass peeki… | Continue reading
It has been a busy few days, and perhaps that is why it took me till this weekend to actually sit down and think about the loss of three individuals whose work and efforts have been part of the mod… | Continue reading
I have been to Iceland many times and each time, I am a different photographer, and find myself making images that are different. Over the past five years, if my idea of what I want in a photograph… | Continue reading
Protocol, a new online publication from the house of Politico is live. It wants to bring a new dimension to coverage of technology, which has gone from being a curiosity to the necessity to now bec… | Continue reading
LinkedIn SF. Captured by me on the iPhone X Jeff Weiner gave up his job as the chief executive of LinkedIn, a Microsoft company, earlier this week. He will occupy the office of the executive chairm… | Continue reading