Aaron Sorkin – Commencement Address at Syracuse University

Aaron Sorkin, screenplay writer for The Social Network, delivered the commencement address at Syracuse University.

Org Charts – Truth as strange as fiction

Observation around Valve’s org structure as envisioned by its employees.

RIP Encyclopedia Brittanica

Encyclopedia Brittanica is dead. We consider, using Brittanica as an example, the perception of authority in society and how the internet brings many more perspectives than what the official line allows.

Alphabets – By Google

What if algorithm and commerce were to instruct our future. We use Google as a proxy, some interesting results.

How to become susceptible to creativity

How to become susceptible to creativity? What impels the creative impulse? Some thoughts on how creativity can be learnt or taught.

Where will you be swept off to?

Mid last year I quit a full-time career for the startup world. Some thoughts on the journey.

Hear Voices from Colonial India

The British undertook a linguistic survey of Bharath, as it was before the partitions. Recordings were made as part of the survey. Hear these voices, preserved in Gramophone records. The recordings were lost since then but were recently found and digitized. The entire archive of recordings are nothing short of splendid. Grouped by region and [...]

Web Is What You Make Of It

Web is a blank canvas on which we can narrate our story. Watch this Google Ad that captures this sentiment.

On the iPhone, the Alien Monolith and Descent of an Avatar

Nature proceeds in her seemingly purposeless circles. Until nudged to a higher orbit. We could better understand evolution by looking at a few parallels in technology, literature/art and Hindu mythology.

Institutional Hypocrisy

India got into a huff about Gandhi