Author: Murali

  • Internships for High Schoolers

    Recently I started working with Spark SIP. SPARK Summer Internship Program (Spark SIP) connects business or project owners with aspiring high schoolers. I am excited about the opportunity to help the young kids and project sponsors to meet up and create new ways to learn and contribute. This summer will be a totally new experience. The project…

  • Infinite Innovations ahead

    It was the perfectly bright weather to admire this unique creation in front of the National Museum of Anerican History. It symbolifies creativity, deft handling of tools, deep understanding of the elements, and pays tribute to the creative mindset of humans. Standing stop a tall and slender tower this metallic creation invites us to walk…

  • Sometimes there is light inside the tunnel too

    Often we grew up with the notion that there is light  at the end of the tunnel. The notion comes from the age old mining and excavation tunnels where someone can spend many days and nights trapped inside a dark tunnel. And then one day we get to see the light at the end of…

  • 400,000 graduates go missing from the US in Jan 2016. Where are they?

    Today I discovered that we seem to have lost nearly 400,000 (yes four hundred thousand) graduates from the US. This is based on employment status of civilian population 25 years and older. See the section “Bachelor’s degree and higher” – Civilian Labor Force. Over the past four days there has been a lot of chatter…

  • Think Different – start of something new?

    We are gifted with the plethora of media and history that is available for us to learn from. Today I watched the video snippet showing internal launch of “Think Different” campaign by Steve Jobs. Very nice talk outlining his thinking to streamline and transform three things – products, marketing, and distribution. And world over, now…

  • Word Press rocks! – simple and nice

    In the past week I had set up a private word press site for blogging atop LAMP to check it out. There was a learning curve to understand the LAMP and Word Press taxonomy. Still, I got a lot of easy help from some good documentation on Word Press and LAMP configuration. And as a saving…

  • Summer Camps are here – let us engage the kids

    Summer is almost upon us. You are wondering why I say that. Today is the Eastside Camp Fair at St. Thomas School in Medina. Every year I visit the same with my kids – at least for a quick glance. We are excited to learn about the variety of summer camp opportunities for kids. Sometimes I…

  • Fascinating world of physical things – flexible electronics, sensor sock

    Today in my morning jog, I got to listen to Phil Inagaki, Founder and CEO of PolyEra talk about his foray into the entrepreneurial world. He oozes passion, vision and in-depth understanding of this company’s vision to create a world of flexible electronics bridging atoms with aesthetics. Taking cue from the Princeton alumni talk, he explored the…

  • A world of possibilities

    Welcome to the Bright Possibilities blog. It feels that many things aligned in the planet for me to arrive here and write some fresh notes. It is incredible to see the amazing collection of software and systems that work together to give us tremendous power to go after new possibilities. I am excited to be here to…