The Chronicles of Kushim

May 2020 - Week 3 of The year of the Epidemic Didn’t get a chance to send Week 3 Virtual State of the Mind Zoom Bar invite for this week ahead of time.. We can have one next week.   By now, we all have been in each other’s living rooms, kitchens… and seen the Louvre artworks combined with colorful crayon paintings by our young artists on each other’s walls, and some of you being shy, are hiding with zoom backgrounds showing golden gate bridge. I can tell you, all of us have seen many ceilings and our colleagues heads in closeup in the past 2 weeks. Our spouses are also getting to know our other avatar … and questioning their judgement from many years ago (I can tell my wife is)!   Week 1 felt awkward and virtual and hoped that this will end soon… week 2, this virtual became real! No longer shy, I got more confident in watching myself on the zoom screen, by turning on video and seeing more of my colleagues do it; and now in week 3, I am questioning why I wasted all that time dr...

Distributed Team Work, the new term (not remote work or work from home) Is the new norm and, infrastructure issues notwithstanding, teams have become lot more productive. CFOs must be seriously pondering on moving towards this distributed teams globally, saving on office space and travel!  I suspect most companies are experiencing this productivity gain, resulting in higher profit margins reflected in earnings through coming quarters, augmented with the $2T dollars printed by US Fed … stocks will certainly go up. This is my optimistic view …   Optimism makes us happy … and what is happiness … as you guessed, it is the 'state of the mind'!   The responses for my last post ranged from 'what is this' to 'please keep sending me this useless information.. Didn't know you can write useless things too’. Abraham Flexner, who founded the institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, that housed folks such as Einstein, Godel, in 1939, wrote a paper on Usefulness of Useless in...