Naveed and Mr. K

These are the two paging leads.

Kumeresh on the left and Naveed on the right.

Now, I don't work as closely with these two as some of the others, so you can take what I say for what it's worth. First, dear readers, there are two main sections in the phone book: the white pages and the yellow pages. The white pages don't have a lot of ads in them, they have a lot of rules to follow and they aren't much fun. They are easier to put together, but also require their own particular discipline.

Yellow pages are where the action is. Things are all over the place, there's lots of color, choices you make have cascading effects, lots of things can go wrong, but there is also some room for creativity.

Looking at these two chaps, tell me which one is White Pages and which is Yellow?

Of course.

Kumeresh with his charming smile is Class (yellow) and serious Naveed is Alpha (white). Their personalities dovetail their areas of expertise. They almost even dress the part.

Dan called Kumeresh "Mr. K" so that's what I do, too. Yesterday at Holi I saw him dancing. It was sort of a combination of a calypso strut with Bill Cosby from the opening sequence of the Cosby Show. It was a fine dance and he almost stole the show. He's easy to like without him having to actually do very much. It makes you like him more when you see that he's on the ball.

I don't recall seeing Naveed dance at all. It might have surprised me if he did. But, he's always there, taking care of business. Plodding along, doing the hard work that needs getting done. Sometimes when people are very quiet, it's easy to disregard them. Naveed comes with quality, though. Two sections of the same book. Two very different men.