# geord.ee > Personal Weblog Personal weblog of Geordee Naliyath, a technology enthusiast, writing since 2006 on software engineering, architecture, data, and AI. Every post is also available as plain markdown by adding `.md` to its URL, and the full text of all posts is in [llms-full.txt](https://geord.ee/llms-full.txt). ## About - [About](https://geord.ee/about/): Who Geordee Naliyath is - [Archives](https://geord.ee/archives/): Every post, by year - [RSS feed](https://geord.ee/feed.xml): The latest posts ## Posts - [Let the Model Synthesise](https://geord.ee/2026/09/let-the-model-synthesise.md): 2026-09-13. For the last few months I have been working on a project to classify requests from our store colleagues. The classification has 150+ classes. With a small set of classes... - [Ask for the Program, Not the Answer](https://geord.ee/2026/09/ask-for-the-program.md): 2026-09-08. A couple of weeks ago I worked with our business team on applying generative AI to a large dataset - around 130,000 rows in a spreadsheet. The model kept trying... - [The Mythical Agent-Month](https://geord.ee/2026/07/the-mythical-agent-month.md): 2026-07-02. The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. is a collection of essays on software engineering, first published in 1975. Though it is popularly known for its main theme of... - [Printing Software](https://geord.ee/2026/07/printing-software.md): 2026-07-01. I often write in analogies… how the new AI wave compares to the dotcom boom or the industrial revolution. There is something to be learned from every transformation, whether it... - [Credentials for AI Agents](https://geord.ee/2026/06/credentials-for-ai-agents.md): 2026-06-30. When we employ people for a job, we verify their credentials - their educational qualifications, certifications and work experiences. In the world of AI agents, similar to people, AI agents... - [These are a few of my favorite editors](https://geord.ee/2026/06/favorite-editors.md): 2026-06-29. Three decades, twelve editors. From vi in 1995 to Helix in 2026. The languages, jobs, and habits each one carried. A nostalgic look back, written before editors became viewers. - [Job Descriptions for AI Agents](https://geord.ee/2026/06/job-description-for-ai-agents.md): 2026-06-27. There is a pattern in AI user interfaces, especially for the chat-based conversational interfaces. User asks a question or explains the problem. AI responds with a good-enough answer. User then... - [Data Labeling is the New Data Mining](https://geord.ee/2026/06/data-labeling-is-the-new-data-mining.md): 2026-06-26. In 2011 I worked on Oracle Spend Classification, a data mining project. Machine learning algorithms classified products and parts into various spend categories for better control over the spend, contracts... - [AI and Overproduction](https://geord.ee/2026/06/ai-and-overproduction.md): 2026-06-26. In February I decided to move to the command line. I started assembling the tools to live primarily in command-line mode. One of the tools I missed badly was a... - [New Wine in Old Wineskins](https://geord.ee/2026/03/new-wine-in-old-wineskins.md): 2026-03-20. There is a recurring debate about AI replacing human activities - in coding, design, shopping, negotiation, and medical diagnosis. What we often overlook is that we are asking an inherently... - [Products, Platforms, and Protocols](https://geord.ee/2026/01/products-platforms-protocols.md): 2026-01-29. Product Thinking, Product Engineering, Minimum Viable Products… We build products to solve problems. Ship fast, learn faster. The product was the thing, and everything else existed to serve it. - [Single-use Systems](https://geord.ee/2026/01/single-use-systems.md): 2026-01-26. It’s nearly impossible to discuss technology today without AI entering the conversation. And increasingly, it’s becoming just as difficult to talk about software without acknowledging a fundamental shift in how... - [Measure Once, Cut Twice](https://geord.ee/2025/12/measure-once-cut-twice.md): 2025-12-27. The old proverb tells us to measure twice, cut once. It sounds like practical wisdom: be careful, avoid waste, get it right the first time. This article challenges that wisdom,... - [Interface Overloading](https://geord.ee/2025/12/interface-overloading.md): 2025-12-16. Recently I had to replace the brake pads on my car. All four of them, and it was quite an expense. - [The Strangler Anti-pattern](https://geord.ee/2025/12/the-strangler-anti-pattern.md): 2025-12-07. Martin Fowler saw some strangler figs in Queensland back in 2001. Those remarkable trees became the metaphor for modernising legacy systems - the Strangler Fig Pattern. Wrap new functionality around... - [Practical Software Engineering with AI](https://geord.ee/2025/09/practical-software-engineering-with-ai.md): 2025-09-21. I have been coding with AI assistance for 3 years, all the way from the beta version of GitHub Copilot. In the past 3 months, Claude Code and Gemini CLI... - [The Wheel Paradigm](https://geord.ee/2025/07/the-wheel-paradigm.md): 2025-07-25. We invented the wheel thousands of years ago. The circular form is mechanically superior to anything nature has produced for locomotion. Yet, wheels are rare in biology; hardly any animals... - [Technical Credit Score](https://geord.ee/2025/06/technical-credit-score.md): 2025-06-15. Ward Cunningham coined the term technical debt to describe the trade-offs between engineering costs and short-term business gains. One takes debt only if it justifies a positive return on investment... - [Disruptive Innovation Next](https://geord.ee/2025/06/disruptive-innovation-next.md): 2025-06-09. Oftentimes, we think innovation is all about new ideas and methods. Of course, innovate comes from “in” (into) and “novus” (new). By extension, we assume that innovation is about creating... - [Fast Tech](https://geord.ee/2025/06/fast-tech.md): 2025-06-02. Fast food, fast fashion, and now fast tech. - [AI Instincts](https://geord.ee/2025/05/ai-instincts.md): 2025-05-21. “You are a customer service agent for Acme International” - that’s how the prompt starts. But what’s a customer service agent? Beyond the behaviors encoded in the prompt, what does... - [Learn to Unlearn](https://geord.ee/2025/04/learn-to-unlearn.md): 2025-04-20. We had implemented an AI solution in 2024. These days we are working on updating the underlying Generative AI models for better functionality and performance. The prompts used in 2024... - [Age of Agents](https://geord.ee/2025/04/age-of-agents.md): 2025-04-14. “What’s an agent?”, my friend asked. To me it’s quite obvious from the word itself. Agent is an entity which has “agencies” - power or capacity to fulfil an action... - [Ready, Set, AI](https://geord.ee/2025/04/ready-set-ai.md): 2025-04-11. These days it’s difficult to talk about technology without mentioning AI. I have been quiet about AI for a while, as the enthusiasm gets built up through newer models, larger... - [AI Front Desk](https://geord.ee/2024/10/ai-front-desk.md): 2024-10-16. In 1995, I got my first email id. And we had access to the world wide web. We were browsing the internet on dumb terminals without a mouse, using a... - [Textbooks for AI](https://geord.ee/2024/08/textbooks-for-ai.md): 2024-08-24. By now all of us are familiar with Generative AI. Type a question into ChatGPT, and we wait for the magical response, often better that we can find or write... - [Sorry! I cannot help you with that.](https://geord.ee/2024/08/sorry-i-cannot-help-you-with-that.md): 2024-08-20. My last article was over a year ago. It was about the rise of Generative AI. A lot of things changed in one year. AI models have become much more... - [The AI Spring](https://geord.ee/2023/05/the-ai-spring.md): 2023-05-24. We are living in the AI Spring. - [The Curse of Agile Product Management](https://geord.ee/2023/05/the-curse-of-agile-product-management.md): 2023-05-02. I was involved in building a large enterprise solution - composed of many products and libraries providing features and capabilities such UI, API, authentication, ledger, databases, enterprise search, microservice runtimes... - [Prompting the AI](https://geord.ee/2023/03/prompting-the-ai.md): 2023-03-23. Recently I came across a problem, typically solved by machine learning. A standard problem, addressed through multiple research papers, of capturing the image of an object and figuring out the... - [Contract First](https://geord.ee/2023/01/contract-first.md): 2023-01-30. Digital as a capability has climbed up and down the hype curve and is now seen as an established practice across enterprises. One of the common patterns is to build... - [Trustworthy AI](https://geord.ee/2023/01/trustworthy-ai.md): 2023-01-15. In 2014, I conceptualized a product to assist legal professionals in India. Central and state governments are responsible for legislations in India. But, when the laws are pronounced and declared... - [Decentralized Data](https://geord.ee/2022/12/decentralized-data.md): 2022-12-17. Data mesh became too popular too quickly. I was listening to the recent ThoughtWorks podcast on revisiting Data Mesh. - [What is Digital?](https://geord.ee/2022/12/what-is-digital.md): 2022-12-03. How long does it take to fuel your car? It usually takes 4-5 minutes to fill the gas, and depending on how busy the gas station is, there would be... - [Shape Up](https://geord.ee/2022/09/shape-up.md): 2022-09-15. A while back I read an article about poverty in The Conversation. There was a hypothesis that poverty is the result of lack of self-control. The author refutes it by... - [Jobs to be Done in Digital Transformations](https://geord.ee/2022/09/jobs-to-be-done-in-digital-transformations.md): 2022-09-10. The Apple iPhone was released in June 2007. I bought a Nokia E71 in October 2008. It was one of the best Nokia phones ever! It served my needs perfectly.... - [Zero UI](https://geord.ee/2022/09/zero-ui.md): 2022-09-04. “And it improved the effectiveness of decision-making”, quipped my friend. He was talking about how a few event-based notifications improved the speed of data-driven decisions. The program monitors patterns and... - [Data, a First Class Citizen](https://geord.ee/2022/09/data-a-first-class-citizen.md): 2022-09-01. When computers were born data was on the “peripherals”! We programmed arithmetic and logic into computers, and we had inputs and outputs for data. Applications and services implemented logic in... - [Content and Contracts](https://geord.ee/2022/08/content-and-contracts.md): 2022-08-23. During the lockdown due to pandemic, I discovered Gunhild Carling in YouTube. She, an amazing multi-talented musician, posts her jazz sessions with her family and friends. Some posts are from... - [The World Builder](https://geord.ee/2022/08/the-world-builder.md): 2022-08-13. Jane wakes up in the morning. It is 6:00 AM in the X8A32@M291K. Today the work for Section 28 must finish. She has been improving the render quality of Section... - [Data Products and Monetization](https://geord.ee/2022/08/data-products-and-monetization.md): 2022-08-05. The Gap - [A Meta-Commerce Story](https://geord.ee/2022/08/a-meta-commerce-story.md): 2022-08-04. I picked up my Kindle during this vacation. Browsing through the Kindle library for unread and partly read books, I downloaded a few that I must read. And then it... - [Products, Platforms and Protocols](https://geord.ee/2022/07/products-platforms-and-protocols.md): 2022-07-08. In 2013, BMW and Toyota announced a joint architecture and platform for sports car. It led to two different vehicles - BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra. Essentially, the same vehicle... - [Reverse Marketplaces](https://geord.ee/2022/07/reverse-marketplaces.md): 2022-07-01. In 2022, we are quite familiar with the concept and convenience of marketplaces. Marketplaces help us to discover a wide range of products from multiple merchants. We read reviews, look... - [Demand Driven](https://geord.ee/2019/06/demand-driven.md): 2019-06-06. Traditional retail businesses are supply driven. Every retail business deal with the domain of supply chain. It makes sense when the constraints are at the supply side. Constraints in production,... - [Enterprise Architecture & Economics](https://geord.ee/2019/06/enterprise-architecture-economics.md): 2019-06-06. TOGAF describes Enterprise Architecture as a process, something to do. It optimizes the legacy of processes into an integrated environment, to support the delivery of the business strategy. It then... - [Failure Modes](https://geord.ee/2019/06/failure-modes.md): 2019-06-04. Over-reinforced sections and under-reinforced sections. An over-reinforced beam fails suddenly and explosively, while an under-reinforced beam fails gradually and visibly. This has fascinated me during my college days, and I... - [Evolutionary Architecture](https://geord.ee/2019/06/evolutionary-architecture.md): 2019-06-04. Information and Communications Technology is an engineering discipline. Compared to other engineering disciplines, computer science and software are fairly modern. So, they end up loaning words from the more traditional... - [Data Mesh and Data Products](https://geord.ee/2019/06/data-mesh-and-data-products.md): 2019-06-03. The progression of technology is like the oscillation of a pendulum. We see the trends swaying towards the faster, better, newer aspects of technology. Earlier we had data processing systems... - [Skills, Endurance & Performance](https://geord.ee/2018/11/skills-endurance-performance.md): 2018-11-25. While starting to learn swimming, I could not even cross the short side of the pool. Once I learned the skills it became easier. Crossing the pool along the length... - [The How and The Why](https://geord.ee/2018/11/the-how-and-the-why.md): 2018-11-14. Relax! the swimming coach shouted. I did not know how. I struggled to breathe, kick, pull and coordinate everything together. It was more difficult when I had to pull. I... - [Misconceptions](https://geord.ee/2018/11/misconceptions.md): 2018-11-05. One day, I asked my friend to take a video of my swimming. Later we analyzed it over a coffee. We found that my right hand was quick to return... - [In A Familiar Place](https://geord.ee/2018/10/in-a-familiar-place.md): 2018-10-28. It was time to deal with the deep end of the pool as part of my swimming lessons. There was a fear inside, a sinking feeling! - [Give Time to Time](https://geord.ee/2018/10/give-time-to-time.md): 2018-10-20. It took me a couple of weeks and four classes to follow the instructions on swimming techniques. I had to keep these techniques intact while learning something new after that.... - [Relaxed At Work](https://geord.ee/2018/10/relaxed-at-work.md): 2018-10-16. Further into my swimming lessons, there was another important lesson to learn. It is to relax in the midst of all the pulling, kicking, and treading water. - [Technique vs. Goal](https://geord.ee/2018/10/technique-vs-goal.md): 2018-10-14. Recently I started taking swimming lessons. It was about learning something new, and achieving something extraordinary. - [Identification, Discovery and Distribution of Apps](https://geord.ee/2015/08/identification-discovery-distribution-of-apps.md): 2015-08-22. Sometime back I was building an online service to discover food. As we were on it, we also found many such services springing up all around us. We had a... - [Bring Your Own Device, Too](https://geord.ee/2015/02/bring-your-own-device-too.md): 2015-02-18. Some years back I was in Australia. As we went around the city, I couldn’t help but notice BYO written in front of most of the restaurants. It’s the shortened... - [Anything That Can Be Digitized Will Be Digitized](https://geord.ee/2014/10/anything-that-can-be-digitized-will-be-digitized.md): 2014-10-23. Electronic devices had first made computing easier. Hence the name computers. Increasingly, we are relying on electronic devices for managing information - to capture, store, analyze and retrieve. Not surprisingly,... - [The Perfect Solution](https://geord.ee/2014/09/the-perfect-solution.md): 2014-09-28. The perfect solution does not exist. A working solution does. Especially in the case of software systems. - [The Internet Big Bang](https://geord.ee/2014/07/the-internet-big-bang.md): 2014-07-24. Today Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President of technical infrastructure at Google wrote a post in Google+ about the corkboard rack/servers Google built in 1999. From the post and the comments... - [Information Services](https://geord.ee/2014/07/information-services.md): 2014-07-23. I have been thinking about writing a post with the title Information Services. That is when I got a notification on Code Halos, a new book by Malcolm Frank, Paul... - [The Database and The Userbase](https://geord.ee/2014/07/the-database-and-the-userbase.md): 2014-07-02. In the Internet world there are only two valuable assets - the database and the userbase. And both are hard to acquire. Recently, we have been struggling to create formidable... - [Only One Miracle At A Time](https://geord.ee/2014/06/only-one-miracle-at-a-time.md): 2014-06-16. Over-engineering is something every designer, every architect should be beware about. In the essay The Second-system Effect, Frederick Brooks points out one common pitfall - when the architect designs his... - [It's The Data, Stupid!](https://geord.ee/2014/06/its-the-data-stupid.md): 2014-06-13. We started our efforts to build software products a few months back. Soon we churned out some small applications, as part of our training program. The product is a small... - [Single Version Of The Truth?](https://geord.ee/2013/09/single-version-of-the-truth.md): 2013-09-07. One of the often-quoted phrase, almost a cliche, in Information Management space is single version of the truth. In the past I have quoted to justify or sell master data... - [Pen and Paper](https://geord.ee/2013/09/pen-and-paper.md): 2013-09-06. I am one person who embraces digital world wholeheartedly. Three years back I made a decision to stop buying paper books and to move to Kindle. I hardly remember any... - [Beat The System](https://geord.ee/2013/09/beat-the-system.md): 2013-09-03. As any social organisation evolves the tendency is to build systems that will further aid development and progress. The social organisation may be anything ranging from a country, a religion,... - [Rethinking Business Intelligence](https://geord.ee/2013/09/rethinking-business-intelligence.md): 2013-09-03. The only constant is change is ever so true with Information Technology. IT systems and solutions are created in the context of the evolutionary period in IT resources. From a... - [Crossing the Golden Gate](https://geord.ee/2012/12/crossing-the-golden-gate.md): 2012-12-12. I have been playing around with GoldenGate for a few months now. The more challenges I face, the more I like the features and capabilities of this tool. Except for... - [Wabi Sabi](https://geord.ee/2012/08/wabi-sabi.md): 2012-08-10. The Japanese world view of wabi-sabi is quite powerful. It allows us to accept imperfections, even better, to be open about imperfections. Whether it be sin, mortality or suffering imperfection... - [Two Birds in the Hand...](https://geord.ee/2012/05/two-birds-in-the-hand.md): 2012-05-29. Rarely I record thoughts or feelings that may change over time. I hardly write about a product or company. But this time, I feel compelled to write about Google and the... - [The Coldest Hour](https://geord.ee/2012/03/the-coldest-hour.md): 2012-03-23. I have got a new weather app. It is so well-designed that I do not mind checking it daily. One of the features I like is the hourly track of... - [Walk Through](https://geord.ee/2012/03/walk-through.md): 2012-03-21. I always fancied the world of architecture. No, not the software architecture, the real one. While I admire the work of architects, my training as a civil engineer prompts me... - [The Project Fuel](https://geord.ee/2012/03/the-project-fuel.md): 2012-03-19. At times, I think of managing a project as driving a car. The size of the project is the distance to cover, time is time, and effort is the fuel... - [Mathematical Models](https://geord.ee/2012/03/mathematical-models.md): 2012-03-15. We live with mathematical models all around us, whether we realize it or not. We apply them at work as if those are deterministic formulae. One such approach is the... - [Oracle Spend Classification](https://geord.ee/2011/12/oracle-spend-classification.md): 2011-12-16. As information technology progresses, computers become more capable to perform activities which requires not just basic binary logic, but approximation, correlation and prediction. Such implementations help us teach computers to... - [Yes Sounding No](https://geord.ee/2011/12/yes-sounding-no.md): 2011-12-14. “Yes! I will do. But…” - [Err on the Safer Side](https://geord.ee/2011/11/err-on-the-safer-side.md): 2011-11-23. Many years back, I was given an assignment to estimate a project. I put my best efforts to ensure that the estimates are as accurate as possible. Then I consulted... - [Encoded Images in OBIEE 11g Report](https://geord.ee/2011/11/encoded-images-in-obiee-11g-report.md): 2011-11-18. Business Intelligence tools are not omnipotent. Different tools have different capabilities, and once the tool selection is over we generally live with what the tool can offer. In this context,... - [Layered Knowledge](https://geord.ee/2011/10/layered-knowledge.md): 2011-10-21. The world’s knowledge is layered. - [Data Warehousing is Dead, Long Live Data Warehousing](https://geord.ee/2011/10/long-live-data-warehousing.md): 2011-10-21. Data Warehousing has turned over a new leaf. Analysts are thinking beyond databases and ETL tools. Vendors are talking loud about their Big Data solutions, Hadoop integration and NoSQL products... - [From Data to Mining](https://geord.ee/2011/10/from-data-to-mining.md): 2011-10-15. The Internet is abuzz with Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, petabytes and portmanteau words starting with Exa, of course only if you care about databases and data warehousing. It was all... - [Expanding Universe of BI](https://geord.ee/2011/09/expanding-universe-of-bi.md): 2011-09-07. Recently, we had a discussion on how the future of BI is shaping up. As I was exploring the trends in business intelligence, it seemed the new developments are not... - [That Which Is Unseen](https://geord.ee/2011/08/that-which-is-unseen.md): 2011-08-29. There is a well-known parable by Frédéric Bastiat – a classical theorist and political economist. It reads “Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas” meaning “that which is... - [Real-time Data Warehouse & Mixed Grains](https://geord.ee/2011/07/real-time-dw-and-mixed-grains.md): 2011-07-01. Increasingly, the trends point to real-time data warehouses. There are quite a lot of discussions on what is meant by real-time and the purpose of real-time data warehouses. Whatever it may... - [Implementing Master Data Management](https://geord.ee/2010/10/implementing-master-data-management.md): 2010-10-01. Software applications were process-oriented for a long time. With new technologies and architectures being introduced with tangible benefits at rapid pace, lifespan of software applications have considerably reduced. Mergers and... - [Yes to NoSQL!](https://geord.ee/2010/09/yes-to-nosql.md): 2010-09-04. I have been thinking about Workaday’s architecture, following Curt Monash’s post The Workday architecture — a new kind of OLTP software stack. What struck me most is the approach towards... - [A Few Thoughts on Mobile Business Intelligence](https://geord.ee/2010/07/a-few-thoughts-on-mobile-business-intelligence.md): 2010-07-16. As the traditional business intelligence tools and techniques get matured, innovations take place, firstly to retain competitive advantage, and then to push the bar further, bringing better capabilities and usefulness.... - [Data Integration Patterns](https://geord.ee/2010/06/data-integration-patterns.md): 2010-06-22. Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf have written about enterprise integration patterns for messaging solutions, many years back. It is interesting to see that there is hardly any authoritative work like... - [Dimensional Modeling and Semantic Relationships](https://geord.ee/2010/06/dimensional-modeling-and-semantic-relationships.md): 2010-06-10. Modeling data warehouses is sometimes a contentious issue. When it comes to data warehouse design there are a few schools of thought and many sub-schools! One of the often-heard discussions... - [Actionable Information in Real Time](https://geord.ee/2010/05/actionable-information-in-real-time.md): 2010-05-19. In the past decade enterprises saw a widespread adoption of business intelligence and data warehousing solutions to understand the patterns hidden in data, fragmented across various source systems. Most of... - [A Case for Evolution of Data Warehousing](https://geord.ee/2010/05/a-case-for-evolution-of-data-warehousing.md): 2010-05-08. Data Warehousing has come a long way. The evolution of technology – especially in storage and processing – causes the technical solutions to evolve as well. It is time to... - [Trapped in Star Schema](https://geord.ee/2010/05/trapped-in-star-schema.md): 2010-05-07. Fact-less facts – an oxymoron. We had a requirement to track assignments of different individuals to different programs. At any point in time we should be able to retrieve the... - [Meta Data Warehousing](https://geord.ee/2009/12/meta-data-warehousing.md): 2009-12-14. Imagine an ideal enterprise where the data is clean and consistent across. This means you can relate the data from one system to another without any transformations or lookups. This... - [TIBCO, Integration, Visualization](https://geord.ee/2009/11/tibco-integration-visualization.md): 2009-11-26. TIBCO is an established Enterprise Application Integration product. Enterprise Application Integration came out from middleware technologies and right now about to get overridden by Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). In a Service-oriented... - [Information Supply Chain](https://geord.ee/2009/11/information-supply-chain.md): 2009-11-23. This is not a new thought. Over the years many people have thought about the information moving within an enterprise and created analogies to supply chains. This is an attempt... - [Conductor, Coach, Commander](https://geord.ee/2009/11/conductor-coach-commander.md): 2009-11-23. There is a difference between Information Technology (IT) and established industries in terms of maturity in operations. Producing IT outputs is still treated as a knowledge-intensive activity, while in other... - [Data and Computation](https://geord.ee/2009/11/data-and-computation.md): 2009-11-20. Business Intelligence (BI) has matured in the past 20 years or so of it’s existence. There has been a lot of developments in software and information technology during this period.... - [Architecture](https://geord.ee/2009/11/architecture.md): 2009-11-06. Years ago, I architected a house. Being a Civil Engineer by qualification architecture is something that I was always fascinated with. Today I architect software, at least that’s what they... - [Sweet Dreams, Little One](https://geord.ee/2009/09/caleb.md): 2009-09-03. It’s hard for us to conceive,Why on earth you had to leave.But if we listen, we’ll hear God say,“Here is where he at peace shall lay”.You’re already in beautiful heaven... - [Beta](https://geord.ee/2009/03/beta.md): 2009-03-16. Recently I built a website that used beta version of an open source software. Obviously, I ran into problems and I had to contact the community to get help. One... - [Investing in Time](https://geord.ee/2009/01/investing-in-time.md): 2009-01-15. Time is money. It’s much more than that. Money if not invested shrinks over a period of time. Time vanishes. - [An Introspection](https://geord.ee/2008/12/an-introspection.md): 2008-12-14. Here is Google’s Marissa Mayer, how she went on building her team. “I like to hire people who have two traits. They’re smart, and they get things done.” - [Certain Uncertainties](https://geord.ee/2008/10/certain-uncertainties.md): 2008-10-18. It has been a long time since I posted last. These were busy days with a lot of changes happening in the personal and work lives. I have written about... - [As Late As Possible](https://geord.ee/2008/02/as-late-as-possible.md): 2008-02-29. The early bird gets the worm! Common wisdom suggests to get things done as early as possible. Everyday I see people – tuned to this wisdom – rushing on the... - [No Risk, No Glory!](https://geord.ee/2007/11/no-risk-no-glory.md): 2007-11-18. During a recent discussion on risk management, I suddenly realized that we tend to see risks too negatively. We were trying to enumerate risks and it was easy for everyone... - [Time and Talent](https://geord.ee/2007/07/time-and-talent.md): 2007-07-14. The two basic questions in any project/task are – are we doing it in time, using the estimated/allocated effort? Most of the important metrics are then derived out of these... - [The All-rounders](https://geord.ee/2007/05/the-all-rounders.md): 2007-05-29. As today’s professional world is adopting a knowledge-intensive culture, it is tough to find a right combination that covers the depth and the breadth of a specific area of knowledge.... - [Value Addition](https://geord.ee/2007/04/value-addition.md): 2007-04-18. Howard Artrip – a manager in Toyota – knows what he does. He knows when he gets up, how long he takes to get ready and get to work. He... - [Well Begun, Half Done](https://geord.ee/2007/04/well-begun-half-done.md): 2007-04-16. It is a very old saying of Aristotle – well begun is half done. We find this true in many fields, especially when it comes to accomplish a certain goal... - [Manufacturing Software](https://geord.ee/2007/02/manufacturing-software.md): 2007-02-13. Various books about software engineering usually compares software development to manufacturing. The comparisons often highlight the differences so as to establish a separate set of processes and methodologies for software... - [Qualify Qualitatively](https://geord.ee/2007/01/qualify-qualitatively.md): 2007-01-16. Quality is one of the evergreen topics for discussion in business world. I attended yet another session on quality a few days back and that made me think a bit... - [Systems Approach](https://geord.ee/2007/01/systems-approach.md): 2007-01-11. Currently I am reading a book named Long-Range Forecasting – From Crystal Ball To Computer (LRF). The author – J Scott Armstrong – begins by introducing a simple idea which... - [Negotiate the Value](https://geord.ee/2006/10/negotiate-the-value.md): 2006-10-26. One of the confounding terms in the business world is value. Outside the business world the term poses difficult questions to philosophers, economists, religious thinkers in the sense it matters... - [Learn from Ignorance](https://geord.ee/2006/09/learn-from-ignorance.md): 2006-09-28. What prompts a person to learn? I have been trying to find an answer, especially in the context of work. For many, once out of educational system, learning becomes almost... - [Say Cheese!](https://geord.ee/2006/09/say-cheese.md): 2006-09-22. A few years back, when the book Who Moved My Cheese? was in the list of top-sellers, everyone talked about change frequently and daringly. Change is inevitable in the universe... - [Circle of Trust](https://geord.ee/2006/09/circle-of-trust.md): 2006-09-16. Since I joined the Orkut community, I have been noticing a lot of hits coming to this site from Orkut. I couldn’t help, but thinking and searching about Orkut. - [Solving 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik's Cube](https://geord.ee/2006/09/solving-3x3x3-rubiks-cube.md): 2006-09-09. Sometime back, I was searching in the Wide Web World for an easy-to-understand solution for Rubik’s cube. I found many, but none worked out for me. Finally my friends helped... - [Introduction to Cryptography](https://geord.ee/2006/09/introduction-to-cryptography.md): 2006-09-08. Cryptography was a subject of interest among the Government agencies, military, banks and multinational corporations, until recently. The research and development in this area was mainly aimed at delivering the... - [Interactive Financial Exchange](https://geord.ee/2006/09/interactive-financial-exchange.md): 2006-09-08. Evolution in any form is to bring in complexity to the system. It is universal and inevitable. Now we are talking about banking industry, its language and the messaging systems... - [Our Deepest Fear](https://geord.ee/2006/08/our-deepest-fear.md): 2006-08-19. I saw the movie “Coach Carter” and am pretty impressed. The coach kept asking the tough rookie – “Cruz, what’s your deepest fear?”. At one point Cruz finds the answer:... - [Hunters & Farmers](https://geord.ee/2006/08/hunters-and-farmers.md): 2006-08-15. In a recent newsletter, Jim Womack from Lean.Org has mentioned the hunters/farmers concept in sales, and encouraged the farmers in a lean organization. For the people who have not heard... - [Tiny Little Minute](https://geord.ee/2006/08/tiny-little-minute.md): 2006-08-14. I was preparing some notes on “stewardship of time” and came across this poem. - [Order or Chaos?](https://geord.ee/2006/06/order-or-chaos.md): 2006-06-24. It is astonishing if you look at the orderliness in physics and in the applicability of the laws of physics. Order and discipline are also considered as a desirable quality...