This post  in The Atlantic has it all. But in case you are a jargon hater like me, you would prefer this after a few seconds of that. It's baloney all over again! Times are looking up, and yet there is the same behavior to be seen all around. Companies have started doing well - well, what else do you expect to happen after the phase when everyone was brutally getting shown the door out of the marketplace. People get fired, and the remaining start pulling their socks up. The bosses become more careful and number driven. Profits start trickling in spite of turbulent conditions. But all that's natural. If profits never trickled for a company that fired people for meeting its targets, something is seriously wrong. Too wrong to hide for the Fed. So, profits are natural. They are the babies of the free market. Coming to think of that, don't we remember 'the invisible hand'? And yet, America is going back to where it started, in the 20th Century that is. Bl...

Being in competition, in a realistic way that is, doesn't happen from day one. Getting there is all about being the better of the start ups, a leader among the promising, or essentially becoming a shaper of things! If you are wondering why the wonderful technology of Big Data is not really helping you, you may be really lacking somewhere. Mediocrity never helps, especially if you have nothing new to offer. Yes, even "new" can be mediocre. Therefore, it is always about being good. But it is also about doing good. Good for people whom you think you will be catering to. Make the life of a software professional easier, think about how to reduce the errors he makes every day, think how his boss would feel more secure. Or say how medicines can reach the needy faster, how research can reach the labs without surreptitious influencing, so on and so forth. And we've been telling you data can solve all your problems. It can't if you have nothing worth selling. But if ...