2018 is a big election year for Californians. We will elect a new governor, all of California’s 53 congressmen, one US senator, all of 80 members of the California State...
When learning to drive on a highway at highs-speeds — a complex information-processing task — we are told to look far ahead and not at the road close to the...
Americans people are now replacing “the alleged victim” with “we believe the woman.” Thanks to the two female journalists, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of New York Times who credibly brought out the stories of women whom Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted. What once was considered boys being boys, is no longer ignored by corporate boards, management, and business owners. The response has changed. Companies are no longer hesitant to toss out their firepower.
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Bill Gates will spend much of his life figuring out how to give away the money that he has made. Warren Buffett is wiser; he decided to let Bill do the job so that Warren himself can keep running Berkshire, which he loves to do and what he is good at.
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As college seniors begin signing up for job interviews, ‘startups vs not’ might be their first dilemma. Working for a startup takes guts and is a journey that gets interesting and rewarding if they share the vision of its founder/CEO.
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It perturbs me when I read news with provocative and inflammatory headlines. It’s not a good start to my day. The divides between the haves and the have-nots, right-wingers and left-wingers, white vs. immigrants and people of color, are tearing us apart. Protests and reactions seem to make the daily news. Why is there so much discontent when things are going really well for America?
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Connecting and networking have become buzzwords in business circles. Business schools aggressively promote them. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are great ways to connect with business associates and friends, but are we spending too much time on connecting with other people and too little connecting with our own inner selves? Connecting with ourselves requires introspection. We have to strip off the veneers of mind to reach deep within us, where instincts, feelings, tendencies, experiences, and logic come together. It is essential for personal growth. Introspection can be cultivated through deliberate practice.
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On June 15, in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Palo Alto, Judge Allison Marston is expected to deliver the verdict in the criminal proceedings of Neha Rastogi. For 10 long years, Neha, an Indian high-tech professional married to a startup CEO, was allegedly a victim of violence at the hands of her husband. The story has pained Silicon Valley Indian tech community and the recording she taped on her iPhone has jarred our ears. In Neha’s letter read to the court she describes the years of torture, and in the recording she begs her husband to stop hitting her. The topic of conversation is ‘software bug’! This struck us hard as she is not just anybody. She is one of us. We relate to her. Our regret is how could she suffer for 10 years and not reach out to any member of the closely knit Indian American community?
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Last November’s presidential election results were a wakeup call for Silicon Valley. For the first time we, the Siliconeers, felt disenfranchised and irrelevant even though California is the most populous state, has created most jobs by far, and has primed the pump of innovation over past four decades. “Others” voted in a president who does not represent our vision of what defines the America of the future.
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Through reading books or reading on the web, we immerse ourselves in another world. We are incredibly fortunate how easily valuable information is available and accessible and most of it...
