How To Get Ahead Over the Holidays
The year is dwindling down and the office gets emptier each day. But if you’ve run out of vacation either because you don’t have enough and/or have wisely taken up all of them so you’re not left with unused paid vacation, you may be stuck in an office building during...
Engineering With Soul: A Spiritual Dimension to Work
This article is the third of an essay series on engineering, titled Between Jerusalem and Athens. Read the first here and the second here. “I can’t just work with mice!” Billy told me after not seeing each other for 8 years. “I need people, human interaction.”...
Knowing Good and Evil
I envy little kids. Especially when they laugh. Or even when they’re distressed, I envy their full trust when their parents and protectors say that everything will be OK. By now millions around the world have seen the very touching conversation between a father...
Cruisin’ Through Gili Trawangan
Riding the Cidomo in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia.
What To Do in Gili Trawangan
What to do in Gili Trawangan, a tranquil little island, an ideal place for a personal retreat. Everything is cheap!
From the EQuad to the World
From the Equad to the World is about the segmentation of knowledge and education. It’s an argument for multidisciplinary thinking.
The Book Next Door: Returning to Fiction
Photo credit: storyforcepr.com Nonfiction is my home department. Until recently, I rarely ventured out of this genre, which admittedly, was informed by the misguided belief that I had ‘graduated’ from my fiction-filled youth. Certainly, a lot of the...
When a Single Narrative Is Not Enough
When a Single Narrative is not Enough is about the danger when it is accepted in pure disregard of other possible narratives.
Confession of a Bookaholic
I buy books at a faster rate than I read. It’s a chronic condition, really. Every time I finish a book, my optimism balloons to a size large enough to eclipse the fact that I have a day job. Sometimes I’m envious of the security guy at my office who seems to be...