6/24/2005 11:06:00 AM|||Sunder|||

I'm currently reading Seth Godin's "The BootStrapper's Bible" and finding it to be an absolutely mind blowing read. As a kid, I was in awe of corporate America and its vaunted leaders. Mark McCormack and Lee Iacocca were my heroes. I came to the U.S and had my career path laid out seeing myself in a senior management position 15-20 years down the road. I'm now in my sixth year running and things are looking pretty good, I have no doubt in my mind that if I keep my nose to the grinding stone, I can achieve my goal. But, people change and their views do too. I now realize that big business isn't necessarily great businesses. My personal peeves are

1. Creativity is stifled.
2. Employees are pigeon holed.

After all the American Dream was not created by Fortune500 companies. I'm itching to break out on my own. I have now been following Seth Godin's blog for a while and found this nugget

Figure what the always is. Then do something else.

Toothpaste always comes in a squeezable tube.
Business travelers always use a travel agent.
Politicians always have their staff screen their calls.

Figure out what the always is, then do exactly the opposite. Do the never.

|||111963721412946726|||Do the Never7/10/2005 07:37:00 PM||| Balakumar|||Sounds like a good inspiring read Sunder... will chk it out...7/18/2005 10:10:00 PM||| Sunder|||Testing comments after changing template6/18/2005 05:50:00 PM|||Sunder|||

Blackberry suffered more than a three hour outage this past thursday. I have for long questioned the validity of the Blackberry in the age when wireless email access has become ubiquitous. As Microsoft gets a better foothold in the mobile computing platform, their exchange 2003 wireless sync seems to be the way to go. I for one like the Audiovox SMT 5600 phone and has in fact remained my phone of choice for the last four months(Thats quite an achievement for the phone, since I suffer from extreme ADD when it comes to devices). From a carrier perspective, I see no value in sharing revenue with BlackBerry and much prefer to cut the middleman.

|||111914301255842888|||Crackberry has had its run for too long6/22/2005 08:10:00 AM||| Balakumar|||Couldn't agree more. BB has had its time in the market. They have to find new avenues soon enough else their revenue stream is going to be based on existing "large" customers some of who are bound to follow the market trend sooner or later.

My device of choice would be the Treo 650 (if I need continuous email access - in and out). Else I would go with a sleeker device like the Razr (in black). Size matters!6/16/2005 09:47:00 PM|||Sunder|||

Okay, I have finally started to blog. I guess I'm a little late in the game, but I have great predecessors. Bill Gates called the internet a joke for the longest time before launching an all out attack on Netscape. Pretty heady company to keep. Anyway, I just finished reading Steve Job's commencement address at Stanford University and I had to get the message out. I don't have the words to describe the speech and any means to do so would only be demeaning it. So, here you go, read it and change your life.

Steve Jobs - Love what you do.

|||111898423525337044|||Steve Jobs6/16/2005 10:50:00 PM||| Balakumar|||Sunder, welcome to blogosphere!!!! Finally!!!! :) More after I read Job's talk...6/17/2005 02:07:00 PM||| Balakumar|||Dude, awesome speech. I had bookmarked it from java.net for later reading but never got around to it. So am glad you posted this. Forced me to read it and boy am I glad!!!! Very inspiring, esp the second point! Reminded me Iacocca. May make my blog (if I have the time)!!