Thank You Rafa
Today (July 03 2015) is an important day in the history of Tennis - it marks the end of Nadal’s domination at Roland Garros. Don’t get me wrong here - I’m not say...
Sympathy vs Empathy
A friend of mine shared this video uploaded by RSA on the difference between sympathy and empathy. This video is one of the best explanations of empathy I’ve seen...
Github Pages and Jekyll
A few months ago, my friend migrated his blog to github pages. At that time, I had just started to blog on medium and I didn’t know if I had the discipline to con...
Hofstadter's Law
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Mothers Day
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people promptly announces she never did care for pie — Tenneva Jordan.
Interviewing Experience
One question that I always ask in a lunch interview is “What are you looking for in your next role?”. While most candidates strictly talk about factors that could...
The 24 Hour Rule
One of the disadvantages of being a professional sports player is that you constantly have to face failures publicly. And to make it worse, you’d have to explain,...
Devil's Advocate
In 1983, William Smithburg, the CEO of Quaker, made a bold decision to acquire the parent company of Gatorade for $220 million. According to various reports, Will...
Negotiating Your Job Offer
A few years ago, a colleague of mine recommended me to watch this video on Negotiating your Job Offer by Deepak Malhotra at Harvard Business School. Even though I...
Running
Six months ago, I started training for the San Francisco Half Marathon (thank you LinkedIn for the sponsorship). Just to give you a quick information about my run...