The internal musings of a disorganised mind.
I had written recently about two phrases that we should eliminate from our normal language — "congratulations" and "good luck". I explained that these phrases don't reflect the effort that is put towards doing a job or accomplishing something; that … [Read more]
There was a post recently on the Harvard Business Review blog "Praise Leads to Cheating?" that spoke about praising individuals based on attributes rather than on effort. For example, if I praise someone saying how talented or how smart they were, … [Read more]
My youngest sister turned 21 a few days ago and I was asked to say a few words. Here is my speech, which I thought was pretty good enough to reproduce here. What sort of advice would you give? Take a read and leave your critiques below. … [Read more]
Do you have bad habits that you wish to change? Of course you do, we all do. Whether it be biting your fingernails, over-eating or wasting away on Facebook, we are doing things that may be bad for us and we want to change them, but … [Read more]
Back in October, 2011, Trinidad and Tobago raised (she was born in New York, USA and moved to T&T when she was two) designer Anya Ayoung-Chee won Season 9 of Lifetime's Project Runway. Needless to say, all Trinbagonians revelled in win as though … [Read more]
Today I read an article on Forbes - Business Tips From College Dropouts. It's based on a Forbes article from January, 2012 that showed that 16% of the top 400 richest people in the US did not have a college degree. … [Read more]
Earlier this week one of my lecturers asked the class if they knew about the Facebook Initial Public Offering fiasco. I certainly don't think that it was a fiasco, and in my view Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman and CEO, made a brilliant, … [Read more]
After much time spent fine-tuning code and customizing the style-sheet, I think that my website is finally ready... maybe. There are some things that I want to improve over time, but for now, I think it's good enough. … [Read more]