I get this call from a girl called Jyoti representing Citibank. She wanted to solicit some feedback on the Citi Mobile App for Blackberry which is now my goto place for everything to do with bank. It was an interesting conversation. A somewhat biased transcript below: Jyoti: Hello Sir, I am calling from Citibank. Can [...]
A whole quarter has passed and I’ve not traveled anywhere in 2010. This sucks! I couldn’t travel partly because I was ‘busy’ interviewing for a role change internally at Google and later relocating from Hyderabad to Bangalore. These first three months have really been crazy in terms of work. First, you interview, later you plan [...]
चार दिन मैं जी लिया चार पल मैं खुश रहा काम करता हूँ दफ्तर मैं सारा नया काम समझ लिया लेकिन वो ख़ुशी ना मिली जो तब थी जब मैंने खुद कुछ नया किया अच्छा लगता है मुझे यह भी करना लेकिन यह काम ही कुछ और है मेरा सपना था खुद कुछ करने का [...]
I know that you have 10000 followers on twitter but that doesn’t make you a leader.
It is a follow-up to a post in which I wrote that I am on my way to become a true blue Hyderabadi. I came to Hyderabad after finishing my college in Indore on June 18, 2006. Google put me up in this brilliant Guest House in Jubilee Hills. I had an AC room all [...]
I’ve been frustrated for a very long time with Vodafone Services. If their pathetic network and slow data services were not a reason enough to hate them, they started giving two promotional calls everyday offering some really dumb stuff. This is despite me opting out of promotional offers. The funniest part is when they send [...]
I logged in to view the webcast of iPad launch not because I was super enthu about the product. It was Steve Jobs that I really wanted to see. The classic Dylan music started playing and I was quite sure that Steve Job is going to host the product launch today. Later when ‘Like a [...]
I had been using a pretty heavy theme on my blog for a very long time and some of my friends have been complaining that my weblog takes a long time to load. So, like a good ol’ Product Specialist will do — build user-centric product, I actioned their feedback and made my blog lighter [...]
Udhav Thackrey announced that they will not allow Australian cricketers to play on mumbai soil as it is anti-Indian. He went on to say that this decision has been taken by Bala Saheb in direct response to racist attack on Indians living in Australia. For one, I don’t think there is a more racist political [...]
