I was addicted to it like it was Heisenberg’s blue meth. News. I had to have it. Frequently and in solid doses. Without it for a few hours I would get withdrawal twitches. At its peak around the last decade I used to subscribe to the TOI, ET, India Today, Businessworld and listen to theContinue reading “News is now toxic. Avoid News!”
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Book Review : ‘Longitude’
I bought this book at 5 PM on a lazy Saturday afternoon at a charity bookstore in Kilburn Park. At 1 AM I was checking with my wife if she minded the bedroom light I was reading this by. If she did I said I’ll go to the kitchen. Because there was no way IContinue reading “Book Review : ‘Longitude’”
On Hiring : Heuristics when interviewing
We all love it. The Shortcut. When employed with intelligence it is called a ‘Hack’ and when it is used with the wrong intent it is called ‘Jugaad‘. For those unfamiliar with the South East Asian part of the globe, that strange word is the lingo of the lazy and callous when they pass ofContinue reading “On Hiring : Heuristics when interviewing”
10 cool things I recommend
The world is grim. The news mostly leaves you wishing you were Superman only so you could fly AWAY from this cesspool. And the papers read more like a telephone Directory of Scams and Horrors. So today I am going to just wade in and tell you have 10 recent things I heartily endorse becauseContinue reading “10 cool things I recommend”
10 people I would love to have over for dinner
So who I would invite for dinner if the genie was generous. Caveat : They can be anyone, dead or alive but not fictional. And I could ask them 1 QUESTION they cannot answer dishonestly. My 10 are : 1. Christopher Hitchens, brilliant author, orator, polemic, intellectual and journalist (question for him : “After debunking TheContinue reading “10 people I would love to have over for dinner”
Year End Review : 2012
On our way to pick groceries in Lisbon from our rented Divisão near Castelo de Sao Jorge I came across this etched on a wall: Such a wonderful sentence that at once comes across as both profound and perceptive and not in the cheap bumper-sticker way either. This is maybe why I do it. 2012Continue reading “Year End Review : 2012”
2012 Books Review
In late 2011 I ended up at THE digital HQ of book lovers online : Goodreads.com | Earlier, I used to mostly read book reviews on amazon.com before I bought a book. After Goodreads.com, Amazon was history. GR’s iPad app works well too and I like their tagline when the app loads (“Meet your nextContinue reading “2012 Books Review”
Why you should start a Blog
On most days it is impossible for me to come up with an original blog idea to bring to life. But some days, in between the dreary unsuccessful ones, it is difficult and but not impossible to capture on paper that ephemeral output from the collision of disparate ideas in your head, like atoms smashingContinue reading “Why you should start a Blog”
Stop multitasking! – Life Lessons from Video Games
Caveat emptor : This is not the first time life lessons were trawled from a video game. Don’t scoff. Good Video games are now rightly considered art. Flight Control is a game for phones and tablets developed by this cool sounding company called Firemint and was it first released for iOS on March, 2009. IContinue reading “Stop multitasking! – Life Lessons from Video Games”
Best of 2012 : 14 Movies that blew me away
2012. As a avid cinephile I can confidently say this: What a treat this year it has been. 3 entities deserve the lion’s share of my grateful credit for guiding me to the right movies in a world that abounds with the wrong ones. 1. Roger Ebert ~ He remains the final word on movieContinue reading “Best of 2012 : 14 Movies that blew me away”
Third Eye Observations 