Savvy Avi

As a blog writer I am interested in viewing who, if at all, is reading my blogs. I installed a tracker. I use tracemyip.org but Google analytics and probably many other sites provide similar services. So now I know a lot about you. I don’t know your identity but what I can tell is your approximate location, through IP address, the links or search words you used to get into my blog and even your browser, OS and screen resolution. I was surprised to find out that in several months I had a few hundred readers. In a typical day I have two or three readers one of which is a first timer. 70% of the readers come through SDM, which for me means more of my blogs should be SDM related. Other readers either come from Google search with searches related to my latest post title (“up on the bridge”, “performance based bonuses”, “credit defaults” are some examples), from LinkedIn or from looking me up directly (probably family and friends). The last category of entries to my blog is crawlers; the we...

This blog is about management, technology and finance. And when the muses strike about art. Most of what I will write about would not be completely original, rather it would be contemplation about and reviews of publications, books and articles. After all between a job, studies, family and other activities who has the time to come up with original thoughts - only the very lucky ones: philosophers, writers and columnist. As an MIT student of System Design and Management (SDM), I also hope to write some insights about the program. I need some perspective in order to organize my thoughts and so it will probably take a few months. Another aspect of being a business (& eng) student is that I find myself reading case studies instead of the things I would normally read. Case studies will probably not be much of an inspiration, I hope they will at least be educating. I also hope that the change in my reading habits would not “dry” up my blogs.