I have been thinking about the concept of time a bit recently. Even though we get exposed to it from an early age, it is not an easy concept to internalize. While I am still learning what time really is, I understood it a bit better after my mother fell victim to cancer. Let me give you a few examples of what I mean by understanding time. I implemented a few systems in the past and although my work was done in months, the result of my work…

There are definitely rhythms in my life and the differences between the ups and the downs are so noticeable that at one point I looked into it and discovered chronobiology and biorhythms. At the time these cycles bothered me but after I became more aware of them I started appreciating and enjoying them…

After years of focusing on nano-economics (too small to call it micro) of my little family, I went on a pleasant trip down the macro-economics lane today. At the end of it I realized that I must have slept through the undergraduate class on Federal Reserve monetizing the nation’s debt because I was “surprised” to see almost a trillion dollars of Treasury obligations on the asset side of the Fed’s balance sheet…

In discussion with a colleague, I mentioned that Wordpress.org was able to provide very nice functionality with excellent usability through php, mySQL, and Apache. She said these were simpler technologies not particularly suitable for today’s complex corporate environment where more complete frameworks are required to satisfy all of the business requirements. I challenged her by saying that some of the blogs get millions of daily hits with this simple architecture while some corporate systems stall after a few hundred users. She told me that the data model in a blog is much simpler than in any corporate system. I know…

On my drive home this morning, I was thinking about my greatest daily challenge. This is an activity that consumes significant amount of processing power of my brain yet happens almost completely subconsciously without impacting anything else. It is like the markets – never completely understood, conquered, or tamed, yet having significant impact on our lives…