As an inanimate object one would think that a risk policy document would not lead to such intense, passionate discussion at the drafting stage. A policy document is just a policy document, where are these extreme reactions coming from? Apparently there are two schools of thought when it comes to crafting policy. The less is…
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Reboot on ITLOW and CIO WebStudio
Jehan does a very flattering post (all of it is true) and a great interview on the CIO webstudio covering the book. More pictures of the book (for you Mohtashim) and moa.
Reboot. Advice from a failure
Hunting the great white shark deep in the barrier reef, bare handed, is not a common hobby. It is just as common as starting up organically, bootstrapping, working for yourself, and taking crazy risks not just with your life but with your entire family’s future. Yet we all dream of it when fate brings us…
Reboot – first set of copies are here
First print run is here in Karachi, landed this afternoon. Copies available Monday at the PASHA secretariat, CIO and Alchemy offices in Karachi. Copies available at Vahzay’s offices in Lahore on Tuesday afternoon. Now taking advance orders for the next run in Singapore.
Of hope and adversity
Last night stranded between the two lakes on Shaheed-e-Millat and Subzi Mandi I noticed a few things about this great country of ours. A spontaneous outpouring of volunteers steering traffic, helping cars move to the side and giving directions and updates on which routes to take. A few miles down the road opposite the planetarium,…
The PASHA ICT Awards are here…
2005 – We are nominated for the financial application category and to our surprise pick up the first prize. 2006 – Seven of us land in Thailand on two separate flights after a wild night of crises set at the airports in Bahrain, Karachi, Bangkok and Chiang Mai. We represent PASHA and Pakistan on day…
Short showers
Two days of heat, 30 minutes of drizzle and thunder… While inside, we carry on a torrid love affair with Treasury One accounting and FX reconciliation… Who says romance and accounting don’t mix.
Here you go Mohtashim
Here is my well thumbed copy of Reboot (the book) on my startup bookshelf along with other well thumbed titles. And for those of my friends who have difficulty reading anything other than IBM manuals on Strategy in Bulgaria and Dubai (yes that means you Adnan), this edition also has lots of pretty pictures, at…
She beat me to it…
There is nothing to make your day like a taste of good old fashioned mutual admiration society (MAS). And when it comes to blogging to send a little bit of MAS your way, no one does it better than my friend Jehan. Now if only some of my other missing in action friends (yes, this…
Omen II?
289 Posts, 666 comments, 300,000 page hits, 3 years after I discover blogging as an outlet for my rants… And my top twenty referrals are from the evil search engine from the evil empire in Redmond, named after my favorite features editor from Fortune.