reading & rebuttal.
The Iowa caucuses provided my amusement for the week along with a roommate viewing of a partial episode of Celebrity Apprentice. Here’s the weekly reading: Rudy Giuliani and the complexity of his run. Really interesting stuff. I’ve called it the best show on TV. Well, I love both LOST and The Wire. But the latter […]
what i’m reading: spitzer; obama
While I love reading books, I share in the common struggle to find the time. Given this tension, I’ve found myself sticking more to in-depth magazine articles as a happy medium. The New Yorker, New Republic & The Atlantic most commonly have articles I enjoy. The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, Time, […]
read. act. share.
This story is truly amazing. The first time I read it I had goosebumps. His sliced ear was hanging off his face and his blood was pooling at his feet as 56-year-old Amarjit Singh stood on the corner looking desperately for help. Then Singh gazed back up Second Ave. toward the Texas Smokehouse restaurant, where […]
step into the gap.
The gap is such a powerful feeling that I never know what to do with. It takes but a second to strike, but once it does, it lingers for hours. It often starts with a normal conversation or group hangout. Things are normal…I’m engaged and life is great. I’m in the moment. Then someone says […]
funniest moment of the day (month/year?).
Today I got a phone call from a magazine fact-checker. It’s for an article having to do w/ex-reality TV people… Him: spell your name (me): S-u-r-y-a Y-a-l-a-m as in monkey-a-n as in nancy-c-h-i-l-i him: can you confirm that you were on the TV show, The Apprentice? me: yes. him: can you confirm it was Apprentice […]
it’s settled.
Things are going really well. I’ve found a place to live. For those of you familiar with the Bay area, I live in Cole Valley, near Golden Gate park. I’ve now been at work for 1.2 weeks and I love it so far. It’s a lot of fun being part of a really fast-growing company […]
imagination.
We all want to capture someone else’s interest. Marketers. Managers. Singles. Parents. Children. Pets. Everyone. My rule of thumb for getting people intensely interested is pretty simple: Capture their imagination. I took advantage of living in a major city yesterday. I saw a movie before it opened in wide-release. The Assassination of Jesse James by […]
shiny & new.
I got on a plane from JFK yesterday afternoon and after two hours on the runway, and six in the air, arrived in SF. It still feels like I’m just visiting. Like this is just another one of the many trips that I’ve taken in the last few years. I’m not sure when it’ll feel […]
whirlwind of emotion.
Moving is a trip. The emotion spans the gamut from ‘scares the total crap out of you’, to ‘day-dreaming about everything that’s ahead.’ A pretty big spread. Change is definitely scary. I’m no exception. As I realized this week, I’m going through a lot of change. 1) Leaving my job (of ~5 years). 2) Leaving […]
things change.
So the move continues to get to me. I now feel, for the first time since I actually decided, anxious. Anxiety about my last days at work, about getting rid of everything in my house, about packing, about where to ship it to in SF, about where to live, and all of the details between […]