Working on the Dubai International Film Festival is as exhilarating as it is exhausting. My main role has been to manage real-time updates from the festival, i.e. live-tweet /Facebook from the event as much as possible. Fun, eh? Anyhoo, with a million things happening at the same time, my responsibilities extended into doing anything needed [...]
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Competition:Win a copy of SuperFreakonomics!
Posted in Books, news, tagged book, competition, freakonomics, superfreakonomics, win on November 7, 2009 | 13 Comments »
If you haven’t read, or at least heard of Freakonomics — shame on you. In a nutshell, as put perfectly by the AP, Freakonomics is a book where the authors “crunch numbers about mundane topics to reveal interesting, unexpected conclusions”. For example: What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug [...]
TED India and TEDxDubai
Posted in Events, life, news, personal, Video on June 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This weekend I had the privilege of meeting with someone who has my (newly recognised) dream job. Lakshmi Pratury, former marketer, venture capitalist, and social entreprenuer, now works for TED – one of the best organisations on this planet, dedicated to bringing spectacular people together to change the world. Those of you who are not [...]
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Posted in life, news, personal on December 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The last few weeks have been a bit crazy. Moving from Madrid to Dubai, and spending time in Mumbai before getting Dubai, didn’t leave me with any time to blog. I arrived last night to Dubai from Mumbai after a crazy week there. Am already at my new work. It’s all happened so quickly that [...]
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