Consulting

I write these words from the Maharaja Lounge of the Delhi airport. I am sitting with my business class peers (three of whom are stomping around and singing, as two year olds are wont to do). There is championship level cricket on the TV. Half…

Woke up thinking “I get to go home today.” Of course, I need to get through from now (7am) to when my plane leaves (11:10pm). Fifteen hours after that, it’ll be 4:45am in New York, and my plane will land. Tanned, rested, and lively –…

Since I have whined, it’s only right to report on the good times. Everything came together today. I rolled in and delivered my final seminar – which I was able to take at a relaxed and deliberate pace – knowing that there was no need…

The awesome jet is a Boeing 777-300 from Emirates Air, who are perhaps the awesomest airline ever (so far as I can tell). The awesomeness started when I saw a perfectly ordinary three prong power plug in the back of the seat in front of…

Sat Dec 12 :7:15 Depart Boston (BOS) Jetblue 10038:30 Arrive New York (JFK) Jetblue 100310:40 Depart New York (JFK) Emirates Air 204Sun Dec 13:8:10 Arrive Dubai International (DXB) Emirates Air 20413:30 Depart DXB (Emirates Air 572)19:15 Arrive Kolkata (Chandra Bose Airport, CCU) Emirates Air 572…

Good day at work with NAME BRAND CORPORATION today. I had been fairly worried about it being a long and painful session because of REDACTED. It wound up being long, but not at all painful. It was simply the structured working through of a bunch…

Home again from Atlanta. Since I’ve now exceeded the number of days that they can casually put me on the “visitor” list, I’ve been put in for badging. This will be the lightweight background check version (no outstanding felonies) rather than the “full polygraph” to…

After a week during which I was actually expected to work, I find myself with four hours on a train with no constraints on my time. I think that I managed to actually achieve my goals – which were to remove one mid-level to major…

Gorgeous morning on the early train here. I boarded around 5:20 at the station perhaps 10 minutes from my apartment. At 9:15 I’ll get off the train in Newark, NJ and rent a car for the day. A quick drive down to New Brunswick working…

I don’t post much about work. Mostly this is because this is the internet and I assume that you’re all intelligent enough to figure out my real name and my real company and use that to email my real co-workers and my real customers, and…