I am a coffee enthusiast and my old Italian espresso machine at home have had few mechanical issues in the past couple of weeks. Over the weekend, we were at a nearby mall and I was strolling with my 18 months old son in the hallways of the mall. A big sign outside Williams-Sonoma (kitchen ware…
I learnt about an interesting concept in an unusual situation. Over the weekend, I was waiting in the check-out line in Costco (a local wholesale warehouse / store) with only couple of items bought to ring through the cash registers. Being a wholesale store, people buy stuff in large quantities and given the weekend, the lines were really…
I have a personal commitment to post at least one blog per week and it’s been more than a week since I wrote my last blog. The central theme of all my blogs is application of proven and time-tested mental models in day-to-day situations. Lot happened in the past couple of weeks and the reason…
The brilliance of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ was recognized again last week when John Nash the famous mathematician won the coveted Abel prize in Mathematics. John Nash is one of the very few mathematicians known in popular culture not only as a celebrity popularized by the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’, but also for the ground breaking work…
Digital world is overtaking the physical world in every aspect of human life. Twitter and Facebook have digitized social relationships; Netflix has replaced family movie outing; XBOX, Nintendo and Sony have replaced indoor family time and to some extent even outdoor games / activities. This month Revenue from online streaming of music (such as Pandora, XBOX,…
Hillary Clinton ran private e-mail system while US secretary of state When I read the headline and saw the picture, as they say, thousand words came to my mind. Hillary is hiding some secret, may be it is some sort of conspiracy, she looks like an operating agent of a secret society, may be people…
From the heart of all matter Comes the anguished cry Wake, wake, great Siva, Our body grows weary Of its law-fixed path, Give us new form Sing our destruction, That we gain new life… — Rabindranath Tagore Maha Shivaratri or the great night of Shiva is a festival dedicated to Lord Shiva, a Hindu deity.…
This was the second consecutive day I was running late for office and while driving, I also noticed that my car was low on gas (petrol). I had enough gas to take me to the office and perhaps few more miles to drive to the nearest gas station (petrol bunk) for a refill. With the…
Did you know that – Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo was imminent? Google Glass was destined to be a failure given the privacy concerns and high price? India outperformed other emerging economies in the recent past? The information technology sector is the primary driver of India’s economic growth? Given our past experience and things we…
Makar Sankranthi is a festival of change. During this period, the Sun passes through the winter solstice, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn i.e. a journey from South to North, an evolution towards a positive direction, a journey to make days longer, brighter and warmer. The Sanskrit word Sankranthi literally means sacred…
chakshuRA - as i see it 