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Philosophy, essays, and thought pieces
15 articlesReflecting on Compliments in a Multicultural World
When I receive a compliment for speaking English well, I graciously respond with, “Thank you. Your command over English is equally impressive.” Living in N...
Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (Harvard Business Review)
If you are a CEO, CFO, corporate board member or investor, the article Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices published on Harvard Business Review by El...
Cyber Resilience Towards the Quantification of Cyber Security Threats
The World Economic Forum and its partners have developed and shared a way for organizations to calculate the impact of cyber security threats. The framewor...
Why investors should care about cyber security breaches
If you are interested in business, technology, and cyber security, you may enjoy my article about why investors should care about cyber security breaches. ...
Consumers, Confidence & the Economy: What You Can Do to Help
We individual consumers should, as a community, take steps to support and strengthen the U.S. and global economy. People's confidence and our actions resul...
Opinion on the Amazon S3 Outage; Checklist for Dealing with Outages
My journalist colleagues at Wired.com published some of my comments related to Amazon S3. ((Silicon Alley Insider and ValleyWag have amusing spins on it. 🙂...
Amazon NowNow Gave Me This Answer on Where To Learn Spanish
The Amazon Kindle mobile reading device comes with their NowNow service included, where you can ask any question you like and you get a response from a pai...
Why I’m not a fan of fingerprint scanners for computer security
These days many notebook computers and portable devices like USB drives are featuring fingerprint scanners which they advertise as biometric security. I've...
Technology, Innovation and Business Decisions
Nowadays, it is becoming fashionable to belittle technology. I hear people say things like "technologies should not drive business decisions", "define ...
Lessons from martial arts that apply to life
Interacting with and helping other people Some encounters are not worth the experience. If you spar with Mike Tyson, you will get hurt and have a headache ...
Can multiple contradicting religions all be true? An imaginary discussion between two people
Cast: Rex, a philosopher. Fanatic, a religious fanatic who believes all other religions are false. Rex: Do you believe in God? Fanatic: Yes. Rex: Do you be...
Is There God? A discussion between two people
Cast: A. Atheist / Agnostic B. Philosopher A: Can you logically prove that god exists? B: Yes. Proof in any system requires Axioms. For example in Euclidea...
Do not celebrate until after your success – Life lessons from a chess tournament
The Sanskrit verse still echoes in my mind: "vinaash kaalae vipreet buddhi" (विनाश काले विपरीत बुद्धि). In my childhood years, I heard these words during...
Love should be a Decision, not an Emotion
Love should be a decision, not an emotion. People should not fall in love, they should make a conscious decision about it. Falling in love is not bad in it...