Able leaders anticipate events, prepare for them, and act in time to shape them. My career in business and politics has exposed me to scores of people in leadership positions, only a few of whom actually have these qualities. Some simply cannot envision the future and are thus unpleasantly surprised when it arrives. Some simply […]
Just how ambitious is US. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preetinder Singh Bharara? If you ask me, Bharara is ambition on steroids. Who is Bharara? Okaaaay, so you’ve been hiding under a rock these last few years. Born in Firozpur, Punjab (India) to a Sikh father and Hindu mother, Preet Bharara moved […]
The Internet is a huge privacy crater. And I found one more example today of how users’ desire for freebies coincides with business carelessness to users privacy. Since SI blog is frequently the target of crazy people attempting to attack the site, I do random checks of IP addresses of readers. When I was checking […]
Privus makes your privacy both convenient and absolute. – Rick Molina, founder of EZ messaging encryption service Privus SI’s eternal, immutable law of Power posits that If you hand someone Power, he will abuse it. Power + Humans = Abuse Be it Narendra Modi, Jayalalitha, Manmohan Singh, Barack Obama or some faceless government agent at […]
One reason and one reason alone prompted me to watch The Big Picture (2010, director Eric Lartigau) when I stumbled upon the French movie in the Netflix Instant cornucopia. After I spotted Romain Duris’s name in the cast, the decision about seeing the film was no longer “Should I?” My mouse cursor hit the “Play” […]
Indians (living in Mera Bharat Mahaan) lack the entrepreneurial drive that’s so abundant in Americans (and among Indians settled in the U.S.). That’s not really new, is it? But what surprises me is that in a land boasting of nearly three million software programmers there’s very little encouragement for innovation in technology even from average […]