“Our naiveté was the key to our success,” said Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO and cofounder of Akamai Technologies, after he received the Hall of Fame award at the MITX 2013 Innovation Awards yesterday. He was referring to the early stages of Akamai’s…
The sweetest days are those in which some thought, conversation, quote, idea, image starts occupying your mind and just doesn’t want to leave. It keeps climbing to the surface of your consciousness until you give it enough attention. It lingers…
Success can be defined in different ways. If you were to ask me, I’d best describe it through Seth Godin’s words, ”It’s in being missed when you’re gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.” If you agree with this…
You know what’s always a good place to look for inspiration and good ideas? A kid’s mind. It’s a curious, idealistic and authentic place. And it gets even more irresistible when you direct its energy toward a specific problem – like social…
Two were the types of answers at intelligent.ly’s Q&A session with Seth Godin earlier this week: the “let’s-turn-on-the-lights” answers and the “you-know-what-you-need-to-do-but-you-are-afraid” answers. That is how Seth, wearing his funky glasses with yellow frames and sipping on tea, set the…
I have explored a few ways to motivate myself to read more. I carry a book with me when I commute. I give myself deadlines. I try to make reading a bedtime habit… None of that has worked as well…
So here is another piece that encourages young people to go into software development if they don’t want to be screwed professionally. I feel like that has been the underlying theme across a lot of online articles recently. While I…
Today I had the opportunity to attend Cyperposium, an MBA technology conference hosted by Harvard Business School. The conference started with a keynote presentation by Alexa Hirschfeld, the co-founder of Paperless Post, a company that offers fancy online invitations. Launched in 2009, the…
A day doesn’t go by without me signing up for a new application, subscribing to a newsletter or setting up a free trial of some new product. If you are similarly curious about new technologies and how they are impacting…
Scott Johnston, Product Manager at Google, wishes he created the hammer. It’s simple, gets the job done and is indestructible, explained Johnston during today’s product management workshop hosted by the Google Ventures Startup Lab. His dream, an initial surprise statement…