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Communication isn’t about the communicator, it is about the recipient. What one says or writes or depicts, is irrelevant; what matters is what the recipient hears, understands, and feels. Their perception is one’s reality. At least 90% of what one communicates is misunderstood. Not because the communicator is wrong, but because both communicator & recipient…

2019 has been one of the most complicated and frustrating years of my life. I’ve found the complications and frustrations highly rewarding, albeit emotionally draining. 2019 has forced me to question some of my most fundamental beliefs and values, things I’ve taken for granted as true or good throughout my life. This is my 3rd annual…

Like 2017, 2018 has been a challenging and rewarding year as well. This Codex Vitae is the annual follow up to the manifesto I wrote last year and is still my attempt to articulate, catalog, and educe what I’ve experienced in 2018. This year, I’ll focus on Things I learned about Things I did Things I failed at…

I’ve been thinking about counterintuitive traits that are not so obvious competitive advantages and why. This is an attempt to list some of them, make sense of it, and reach out to others to find and compile a MECE list such traits. Willingness to be taken advantage of – This is spectrum ranging from working…

Operations Operations management is the set of actions that enable designing and controlling the process of production of an output – usually a good or service that has value for others. If one’s enterprise is a business, the output is the product – durable, consumable, or service the business produces. The price the customer pays is the proxy for the value she derives from the output.…