I'm a big Tim Ferris fan.  I have been a fan for several years now.  His latest book is called "Tribe of Mentors", in which he sits down and interviews over 100 high-profile, high-performance people across multiple industries to identify what makes them "tick".  The book is an easy read and gives a peak into some of the personal habits of these people.  In the book, Tim uses a format of questions that he poses to each individual to create a conversation about how these folks approach their world ...

On a warm, muggy Friday evening in February 2013, I set foot on Indian soil after a 20+ hour flight from Texas.  As I exited the Chennai International Airport, a waft of foreign air permeated my lungs while the sounds of horns honking and motorcycles humming created a cacophony of sound orchestrated from the hustling and bustling people of Tamil Nadu, Southeast India.  Over the next 5 weeks, I would experience firsthand, how free trade worked in a global economy ...

Milton Friedman’s statements about corporate social responsibility are timeless and no less truthful today then they were 47 years ago when he quoted them.  Milton argued that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits as long as it stays within the rules game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud”.  Milton portrays social responsibility as an altruistic distraction from the true purpose of an organization, which is to focus on profit generating activities.  His argument assumes that generating profits and engaging in social responsibility are two sets of activities that are independent of each other and hold contradicting objectives.  However ...

Rant #1 : Hollywood and the Cloud I was watching a movie the other day and in the middle of one scene on of the characters starts talking about the "cloud" as if it was some simplified, ubiquitous pop-culture concept like a Justin Beiber song.  It made me start to think and reflect on how main stream tech has become.  For me there is some satisfaction and self-validation that I chose a career 15 years ago that has become this popular, but as I sat here thinking about the light-hearted over-simplification of this scene it made me realize and appreciate the complexity behind what the "cloud" really is and what it has done to change the way we live.