A reminder to self:

Failure and fallure. The difference is subtle, but it is all the difference in the world. In fallure, you still do not get up the route, but you never let go. In fallure you fall; in failure you let go. Going to fallure means full commitment to go up--even if the odds of success are less than 20%, 10%, or even 5%. You leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped. In fallure, you never give yourself a psychological out: "Well, I didn't really give it everything. . . . I might have made it with my best effort." In fallure, you always give your full best--despite the fear, pain, lactic acid, and uncertainty. To the outside observer, failure and fallure look similar (you fly through the air in both cases), but the inner experience of fallure is totally different from that of failure.

Leadership Lessons of a Rock Climber by Jim Collins

We are on CNBC!

We are on CNBC!

Check out New York Times technology columnist David Pogue raving about SugarSync!

Long time no post...

Over the past few months this blog has fallen to the way side... and that's bad, but a few good things have happened since.

I have joined Sharpcast in the product management group. We have a fantastic team and have been working on the 'future of sync' which we are very close to launching at SugarSync.

If you are curious about what SugarSync can do take a look at this. And if you still need more convincing this should do it. (-:

I will keep posting on this blog for sharing interesting tid-bits and things outside of work, to follow the progress of SugarSync head over to the official product blog where you will find me chiming in from time to time.

A talk that tingles the brain...

From Ted website:

In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He talks about phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear color or smell sounds), and the Capgras delusion, when brain-damaged people believe their closest friends and family have been replaced with imposters.

Randy Pausch's speech

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor. He has pancreatic cancer and expects to live for just a few months. He gave one last speech, 'the last lecture' which is on Google video.

A must watch.