In the past year, while I was focusing the farmers initiative in India, I have also been spending time helping my spouse’s business with her GST related tax filings, returns etc. This has helped me learn about the current process and I am glad I could give some of my feedback to the tax officers …
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I got a chance to read ‘It Doesnt have to be crazy at work’ by Jason Fried and David Hansson of Basecamp. They launched Basecamp in 2004 and in 15 years time have reached 3 million accounts. Based on their experience, they have come up with some amazing observations, many of which I could relate …
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Over the past two weeks, our entire family has been glued every day to the news of the kids in the cave in Mae Sai area in Northern Thailand. We started thinking of ways in which the kids could be brought out and one idea that came up was to build a water proof chamber …
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In the past few months, I have been meeting various members of the farming community in India to understand the root cause of their issues. This is one classic example of ‘peeling the onion’ story where as you learn more and more about the issues of the farmers, you see layers and layers of problems …
A friend of mine who practices medicine in New York had shared an article about Dr.Atul Gawande chosen as the CEO of the new medical initiative jointly started by Dimon – Buffett – Bezos trio. As luck would have it, I stumbled upon the link to The Cost Conundrum, an amazing article written in 2009 …
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Alex in Wonderland is a stand up tamil comedy show by an individual named Alex. When I was given the tickets for Alex in Wonderland, I did not know what to expect and hence went in with an open mind. Alex in Wonderland is around the theme of Tamil movie music and if you are …
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Got a chance to read the SEC filing made by Amazon, with Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to the shareholders attached in it. It is a very well thought out letter. The humble representation of hard facts, especially the four points for high standards is remarkable . Helped me learn something new today. The statement on …
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I came across this interesting article about self parking slippers in the newspaper today. My curiosity level went up when I realized it was from Nissan as a good friend of mine, Tony, is deeply involved in the thick of actions in technology there. When I pinged him on this, he directed me to a …
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As I am a big cricket fan, I watched the finals of the Under 19 Boys world championship between Australia and India. Congratulations to the Indian cricket team for winning it four times in the past 20 years or so. Given my interests in data mining and also cricket, I dug up more facts about …
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I got my Alexa device as soon as they made it available in India. I played around with it as a user initially, but soon the technology kid in me took over and started developing skills. A few things I learnt, which I did not know before about Alexa are: There is a history of …