Blue Earth

December 16th, 2009 · 8:00 am  →  Blog

As a tech nerd who currently owns a Blackberry, I’m usually primarily focused on smartphones (like the iPhone and Android phones). However, Samsung’s Blue Earth caught my eye as an example of an innovative and very green design. Notice anything different about the back? If you said, “those look like solar panels”, you’d be right. [...]

Lessons from the Consulting Life: chain yourself to your blackberry

March 17th, 2009 · 9:27 am  →  Blog

Yesterday, I stopped by a coworker’s desk to grab a quick morning breakfast and then to discuss our various workstreams. Given the endless teasing I get about how dependent I am on being connected via 3G wireless card and Blackberry, I thought I’d mix it up by not bringing either my laptop or my blackberry [...]

Krackberry for Kids

February 19th, 2009 · 5:00 am  →  Blog

It’s never too early to get kids started on the essentials for success in the professional world. Of course, that includes things like teaching them confidence, good communications skills, basic math, but it also includes the most essential thing for any savvy business person: the crackberry. But, RIM (Research in Motion, makers of our most [...]

50 things about Barack Obama

November 9th, 2008 · 11:11 am  →  Blog

Who knew the UK kept such good track? (HT: Guy Kawasaki) Things I consider to be awesome (with my commentary in italics): • He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics (he likes comics? hell yeah) • He was known as "O’Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball (that is a kick-ass nickname) [...]

Year-End Post

January 1st, 2008 · 11:33 am  →  Blog

And thus concludes the second year of this blog’s existence. In line with all the other “year-end” posts on the blogosphere that come around this time of year, here are highlights from my life as reflected in the past year of this blog: Started work as a management consultant Graduated from Harvard  Installed Linux Mint [...]