From a Scientific American Article Most people believe that they are above average, a statistical impossibility. The above average effects, as they are called, are common. For example, 93 percent of drivers rate themselves as better than the median driver.…
From To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Pink, Daniel H. (2012-12-31). About a year ago, in a moment of procrastination masquerading as an act of reflection, I decided to examine how I spend my time. I opened…
We (a few engineering students from CEG) sat huddled in N.Kumar’s house. I think there were four of us (Kumar, me, R.K. Viswanath and Visweswaran). We were listening to the radio broadcast on the first moon landing. There was a…
I assume, you know, why you want to find an influencer. I actually don’t like that term “influencer” and would like to use some synonyms like evangelist, thought leader, expert, expert blogger/columnist, curator. So let us say we want to…
After a gap of over 20 years, I got a chance to meet with my mentor. I first met him towards the end of 1984 and pitched him three ways of building a database engine. I will tell this long…
My notes scribbled down at the Sales 101 event organized by TiE Chennai. Some pearls gathered at the event which is mainly directed at small entrepreneurs. Your business should be based on your personality Automate first rounds of customer engagement…
Snippets – from Marissa Mayer’s TiEcon Talk A 5-7 bullet blog post sent by every employee at Google on Monday describing what was accomplished the week before. The snippets are aggregated and made searchable so any one inside Google can…
Congratulations to the seven students from Chennai who made it to Google Summer of Code. I am especially proud that they all participated in #32hourstartup and/or #in50hours product building events. Here is a list of the people selected. Yuvi -…
The weekend marathon event In50hrs is behind us now. But the ripples continue. A few blog posts, tweets and retweets, facebook pictures and comments are still trickling in. Here is what I really like about the event. I liked the…
I don’t think I have done this much of talking, in a while. It was great and I loved every bit of it. I gave ten Talks in about twelve days (weekends included) in three different states. It is kind…
