What do a seventeen year old high school dropout who reminds me of Steve Jobs and Google and Facebook going out for a Lassi date in Karachi have in common. Beside Karachi and Lassi, they are both presenting today at the first PASHA Pakistan Tech Crunch Gong Awards 2009 at the Karachi Sheraton. If you…
Category: Alchemy stuff
The easiest thing you can do
is to give up on a child. You can do it as a teacher, a sibling, a friend or a care giver. It is so much harder to fight for one. The reason why I have so much respect for Nasreen Bakar, Sami Mustafa and the team at CAS is that they have always stood…
The Mmmm. song
The Mmmm. song by Michael Buble that somehow brings Taha and his Mmmm. to my mind every time I hear it. To Taha and Fawzia, I know someday that it will turn out and we’ll make it work so we can work to work it out. I’m Not Surprised Not Everything Lasts I’ve Broken My…
The easiest 1,000 dollars you could ever make.
In a down cycle, things are difficult. Customers are reluctant, marketing budgets are tight, promotional campaigns are non-existent. For a startup or a small venture, the down cycle blues are even more severe. So if you were in the mood for free exposure, customer facing opportunities and a hard cash, immediate settlement prize worth Rs.83,100…
Help, my blog has been hijacked by a digital ghost.
Every morning I change the theme back to my ultra sweet, three column, nearly spring variant. Every evening, somehow it revert backs to a dull, blue, personality free, nightmare. Text is text, content is content, and as long as my readers are cool, I am cool. But I so like the nearly spring theme. Helpppppppppppppp
The original Blue Screen of Death Launch post
A walk down memory lane, old backup drives and fossilized emails produced this mail shot from early 2006. How’s that for perspective? At the business school orientation for new arrivals, a fellow student asked me why I was at Columbia. My response drew a look of confusion – “I always wanted to write a book,…
Chotay Nana.
There was nothing choti (small) about him. Over 6 foot tall, with an equally impressive all white beard, a booming voice and a bogeyman repute, our mother and our khalas used to scare us with the Chotay Nana (the younger/smaller grandfather) threat. “You’d better behave yourself, otherwise I will call Chotay Nana”, followed by a…
Reboot now available on Amazon, soon to be released in India.
Apparently, you can’t do things in one’s or two’s in the publishing Industry. Not when you have as powerful an agent as I do. And then there is brother Vickram who single handedly closed the largest distribution deal in India for Reboot. The book by the way is now also available on Amazon. Quick update:…
Pakistan Risk Review – now available on Amazon
What a great start to a day. Click here to order your copy now. Now waiting for the Reboot title to get listed.
The 300
My 300th post on this blog marks a number of milestones. This morning we received our first Amazon Advantage order for Reboot and Pakistan Risk Review. In the next few days as Amazon receives the shipment and updates the inventory it will be possible for you to buy copies of reboot and Pakistan Risk Review…