Bright Possibilities

Author: Murali

  • Book: “Night” – terrifying, insightful, and hopeful

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    One teenager amongst a few millions faced challenging times in 1944-1945. Unprepared for, he was. He had to endure challenging period of his life living in crowded place, with inadequate food and water, surrounded with winter with inadequate clothing and shelter, and often live in darkness. He survived this all in the internment camps during…

  • Summer 2018 Internships for High Schoolers

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    Over the holidays, a local high school junior student said, “Uncle, I am interested in the SparkSIP internship“.  I am always glad to hear the interest to do internships from high school students. I was however surprised to hear this ask because we had not even started the discussion at our advisory board for SparkSIP.…

  • Pulse of Cloud Computing and SaaS Businesses

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    Over the past decade there is a high volume of discussion about Software-as-a-Business (SaaS) business model. It is amazing to see how many software parts and software driven experiences (Ex: Netflix, gmail) are purchased online. There are novel products that are only cloud native now unlike in the past. About fifteen years back, I was…

  • DI2018 Session 4 – T-shirt and developing story ideas

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    Goals for Session4 were: Warm up:  Review T-shirt design Discuss story ideas for Central Challenge Enact one of the stories with discussion, rehearsal, and presentation   We started with listening to t-shirt ideas from each kid. There were creative ideas with a blend of tigers, monsters, and mixture. One of the creative ideas was about…

  • Completed 2017 Seattle Half Marathon – Slow and Steady

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    After 8 years, today I ran the Seattle Marathon half marathon course. My goal was to complete the course with no injury and in good shape. And indeed I completed it well. This is my fourth half-marathon run in my entire life and all these came in the past decade. The pace came in at 2:52…

  • DI2018-Week3 Recap – Task and Presentation Instant Challenges

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    Following our Week2 meeting, we had our Week3 meet on Nov 4th with 5 kids in attendance. My goal was to cover the following: Warm up: IC: Task – Create new musical instrument from stray items Introduce the concept of “Reflection Time” and “Planning” Discuss Team Conduct and Rules Decide on Team Name Instant Challenge:…

  • Annual Revenue for select companies

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    Yesterday night I was reading about the upcoming earnings season. There was talk about how the stocks of some companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook that have soared in the current year. I got curious to understand how the revenues had grown in these companies. The chart illustrates quickly the trajectory of revenue for these…

  • DI2018-Week2 Recap – Team Name and first Task Challenge

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    We had our Week2 meet on Oct 21st with 4 kids in attendance. My goal was to cover the following: Warm up: Pick 2 items each and tell a story using the same. Sharing: Build on each other’s choice item and create a shared story. Learning: Task Based Challenge to learn about planning, implementation, and…

  • Starting DI2017 Team for Rising Stars

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    Last week I met with 8 other parents who had kids interested in the Destination Imagination Program. In the past 3 years, I had volunteered for DI when my daughter was on DI programs. Now my son is very interested in DI. And this year almost I am forming a team. Over the past 3…

  • Growing problem with Lots of Pictures everywhere

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    For long we had relished the growing power of cameras – good old digital cameras and ever growing set of mobile devices with embedded cameras. We have nearly more than ten devices at our house – smart phones, tablets, laptops, digital camera, etc., that are equipped with cameras. And that means we snap a lot…