I hope everyone had a great holidays and new year’s celebration. This year I didn’t really do anything too exciting, but I got a chance to hang out with friends and family and that more than made up for it. Anyways, I am predicting that 2006 will be a very interesting year for myself. The fate of my current company, Revunity, will be known and I have a few other ideas in my head that I want to explore in the coming months. On the personal side of things, I’m definitely going to take a vacation this year. I’m not sure where and I’m not sure how elaborate it will be but I really need one… a long one.

As for this blog, well, 2006 will be very exciting also. I’ve got a ton of things I wanna do with it. My main bottleneck is time, of course. But, I’m going to make a concerted effort to dedicate more time to this blog. I’ve only had this blog for a couple of months now and already I look forward to blogging. I’m constantly jotting down notes on topics I want to blog about. On at least a few occasions, I’ve hopped out of bed at night to jot some thoughts down. I scribble all my notes using Notepad into a sophisticated plain-text file. This file has quickly grown to be freakin huge. The problem has been that the rate of thoughts going into this text file is way faster than the rate at which I am pulling them out and blogging about them. I’m going to be doing my best to catch up.

Some things to expect in 2006 on this blog:

• Rishi’s thoughts on technology trends - I love technology. I love talking. I love talking about technology. Few things get me more excited then when light bulbs are going off in my head as I contemplate the “next big thing”. Anyone that knows me has heard several of these pitches. I pride myself on not being someone who’s just a talking head. I rarely take anything at face value, instead I’m always digging deeper. I’m also a big student of history. I enjoy looking at how the past can be used to predict the future. Thus, I feel like when I am talking about technology, and future trends of technology, I’m a force to be reckoned with. Anyways, a lot of my notes are about my thoughts on various trends in technology (mostly surrounding computing) and you’ll be seeing many posts talking about them.
• Business Book Cliff Notes - Ever since I got my Bachelor’s degree from Cal in 2001, I always assumed that at some point in the not too distant future I’d go back to school and get an MBA. Well, it’s still something I think about, although as time passes, I become less and less keen on the idea. I do know that there is much to the world of marketing, finance, leadership, etc. that I have yet to experience and learn. Since who knows if or when I’ll actually goto B-school, I’ve decided to start a reading curriculum for myself based on highly-rated-in-Amazon books covering various topics in business. Everything from marketing to how a hedge fund works. However, I’m not just going to read these books cover-to-cover. For each book I read, I’m going to write down what I learned from the book and what questions arose in my head while reading the book. I hope to sort of create my very own cliff notes to business. Obviously, business is best learned by doing. But, we’ve only got a limited amount of time on this planet so learning from knowledge and experiences of others will hopefully be a shortcut. Anyways, the best part for you guys is that you’ll be able to read and reference my cliff notes. Hopefully, both you and I, will find value in them.
• Side Projects - Like I said, I don’t really know what I’m going to be officially working on in 2006, but no matter what, I definitely hope to scrounge together some time to dedicate to some pet projects. One of the really great things about software these days is the richness of both tools and resources. In literally a few hours, you can whip together some pretty cool stuff. Hopefully I’ll be able to share some of my work with all you guys.

As you can tell 2006 is going to be super busy for me, but I’m looking forward to the challenge. =)