February 2012
3 posts
“The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via 99lions)
iHulk →
Apple massive growth and share price movements distorting overall picture of US stock market
iPhone blasts pasts MS →
Power of innovation: iPhone business alone bigger than all of Microsoft. Waiting for iPad to do the same.
January 2012
8 posts
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via kapi)
“If we want to assess the state of the economy and to predict its future, what we...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi via The Drucker Exchange
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a...”
– Anne Lamott (via 99lions)
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it.” (A....”
– Innovation Management
“You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall...”
– Tim Cook, Apple CEO (via rmantri)
Intution vs Random Walk →
Very good explanation of why market behavior is counterintuitive. Also makes a good case for why markets function best when major players don’t or can’t impact proceedings.
“Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more...”
– Ron Paul (via ronpaulrevolution)
December 2011
10 posts
“As soon as you accept that just about everything in our created world is only a...”
– Seth Godin
Creative Play
The idea of creative play as conducive to learning, or even formal education, is an article of faith at Lego that goes back to its founder, who defended his decision to become a toymaker during the Great Depression by pointing out that all animals use play to develop their brains
Source -Businessweek
Age of Surplus
Human race seems to be rapidly approaching a phase where our civilization will produce and provide for basic needs at a cost so insignificant there will be nobody left below poverty line. We are at least couple of decades (or more) away from being near this phase. Scientific and technological breakthroughs in labs around the world have already planted seeds for this to occur. Engineering phases...
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making...”
– Paulo Coehlo (via tantum)
“Unfortunately we often get praise for things that weren’t particularly difficult...”
– Alex Harris (via atomos)
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via atomos)
Solace
November 2011
5 posts
“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much...”
– AppleTell via D Curtis
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is a chance to work hard at work...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via rmantri)
“There is nothing like “basic science” and “applied science”. There is only...”
– Louis Pasteur (via rmantri)
October 2011
3 posts
Watch Spotted a worm using the same technique as the snail, i.e using a secreted strand as a rope to travel vertically. But the worm was going up! Not sure how the strand came about, as I’ll find it hard to imagine the worm being capable of somehow creating / shooting a 12 feet long vertical strand working against gravity. Can only assume the worm found a strand abandoned by a snail, and decided...
September 2011
1 post
If you don't come to Democracy, Democracy will...
Found the above quote somewhere on the Internet. No idea who came up with it or why, but is very relevant to current situation in Libya. The Internet has even made a appropriate image to go with the saying
People rising up against tyrants to build a future for themselves is always good news, and successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are commendable. They are good examples of how democracy...
June 2011
2 posts
Baba need not be a Gandhi
Our nation is obsessed with finding a modern day Gandhi to lead the fight against corruption. Any enterprising individual’s initiative is expected to be replica of the Mahatma’s spirit before he is deemed worthy enough to lead such a endeavor.
But there is a dark side to Mahatma Gandhi too. His sleeping naked with young girls, his stubborn refusal to allow his wife the of use animal...
WatchFreedom Park Protest. This is all us hot heads on the road outside. Larger crowd for the speeches inside. Took part in a small candle light march with “civil society” crowd about an hour later.
May 2011
6 posts
WatchGive it a few more years and I swear they’ll make cars that drive by itself. Damn, damn, damn.
UAVs don’t need pilots. Jobs that once required men are disappearing faassst.
WatchDriver insults technology. Alchemists of Skoda, we seek your forgiveness.
