This was a fascinating excerpt to read. Following this fragment of the discussion that took place more than 70 years ago required some thinking. Here is some context: It is not difficult to imagine a mind to which the sequence of things happens not in space but only in time like the sequence of notes… [Read more…]
March 16, 2012
What do engineering colleges have in common with simulation of world bodies like G20 and UN? I got my answer at Hindustan Young Leaders Conference (hycl) conducted at KCG Tech. Not sure how it came about, but it is such a brilliant idea. Bringing a groups of young people to discuss world affairs, using models… [Read more…]
October 3, 2010
Yesterday, a door to door salesman came home to give us a demo of a water purifier. We decided to buy it and I handed my credit card to the salesman. I expected him to pull out the standard credit card swiping device. Instead, he pulled out a coin from his pocket, kneeled on the… [Read more…]
July 21, 2009
Last week, I was looking at an article about thinking titled – Tackle Any Issue with a List of Hundred. I liked the concept but I was not sure about finding a list of hundred ideas. So I decided to give it a try by listing different ways of using InfoMinder, one of our products.… [Read more…]
October 5, 2007
I keep getting links to cool articles, blogs and essays. Sometimes I just mark them to read later. Some times I just dive in, sample them a bit. What excites me, may not excite you. But if you are in the software industry and share some of my interests, you may just want to take… [Read more…]
September 2, 2007
Provocations are not possibilities from Edward De Bono: …provocations are quite different from possibilities. A provocation may be knowingly wrong, impossible, or contradictory and yet provoke valuable ideas. Provocations are not hypotheses. There needs to be a conscious decision as to the range of possibilities: how far from the probable and how near the fantastic?… [Read more…]
July 5, 2007
Scott Berkun, Author of “The Myths of Innovation”, in an interview with Guy Kawasaki: the foundation is that ideas are combinations of other ideas. People who earn the label “creative” are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem… [Read more…]
May 22, 2007
A gripping and exhilarating read for anyone who likes to spend time Thinking About Thinking. What is computational thinking? Computational thinking is a way of solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior that draws on concepts fundamental to computer science. Computational thinking is thinking in terms of abstractions, invariably multiple layers of abstraction at… [Read more…]
December 6, 2006
Paul Saffo says that technologies take 20 years to arrive from invention to our home. In this entry on the significance of iPod, he says: The iPod is an extraordinary innovation — and still so misunderstood even on the fifth anniversary of its introduction on October 23, 2001. In contemplating it’s significance, it is tempting… [Read more…]
November 17, 2006
This is a snippet from their Ideas Issue (you need to sign up for a free two month trial to get it). If there was a law that every organisation had to put orward five creative ideas a year – then they would do just this. Perhaps there could be a tax credit for the… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
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