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Hello world to the new website

Silicon Valley without the American Empire

Technology without Imagination

The internet social contract is beyond broken. Exits are a must.

🔍 Why I stopped angel investing after 15...

The End of Programming as We Know It...

“None of the ways by which we’re taught...

Good comment, LLMs are a useful for a...

Why are Japanese developers not undergoing mass layoffs

The tech industry is in a rough spot

Writebook Hat’s off to the folks at 37 Signals

How I write Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s wrote a...

The Superiority Of Piracy I think Indi hits...

Fast Crimes at Lambda School (sandofsky

“Microsoft volunteer working on a Linux-based database”

Back here after 10 years or so

Debugging Tech Journalism—Asterisk This is a great article...

It’s been awhile since I read a book without an ISBN

Yesterday I was on I was live on...

Social resets and friend formation

No

Supplying our light

We have two quests in life - one...

IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to...

The Enlightened view on productivity

The real challenges of AI

ज्ञान

Very well written! Payments nerd appreciate.

Kudos on the effort and comparison Elliot.

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can...

Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes

I agree with the optimistic sentiment. Generative AI is truly feels like a new technology epoch.

Axe and Magic

Fresh off the plane — My Yelp review of the US

Fresh off the plane — My Yelp review of the USA

This is the thought leadership I crave

I've heard a lot about Amazon's 14 LPs and even studied them for some Amazon interview prep…

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic...

Every great man is an actor of his...

Post-survival

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your...

MBA decision for PMs

#30DayChallenge Complete!

Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even when the plan is horrifying.

Unlearning middle class values

Belief Inversions - VIII

Belief Inversions - VII

Belief Inversions - VI

Belief Inversions - V

Belief Inversions - IV

This is a blog post!

Belief Inversions - III

Belief Inversions II

Belief Inversions - I

Fuck Inventory

My aesthetic journey

Should you leave India?

Refactor all the things

Consumer electronics is fun again

Should we cry about India’s failure to become a super-power?

To MBA or not to MBA? - Part 1

To MBA or not to MBA? - Part 2

Has India’s startup ecosystem arrived?

Change your beliefs daily

Internet native learning

I need to rewatch everything through my new adult lenses

Reconstructing the Church

My Standard advice + FAQ

LOL

Man I’m old

Why do we believe in meritocracies?

The ever-lasting joy of a meaning less existence

RIP OSes and Clocks

Why I work in Azure

Life is full of tough choices that nothing...

Why I did my MBA?

What we fear of doing most is usually...

Map vs Territory at work

LARPing

Hello world

Why work in FANG?

Twitter brawls

Cancelled

Confidence

Signal vs Facebook part 2

Coooomiiiic tiiimmmmeeeee

Why move to Signal?

Hi Chunqiu, happy to hear it inspired you.

Beautiful video on the “Is success luck or skill

The new calling for video calling

Umm. That’s not how they think

Rant On JioMeet’s plagiarism

The bear case for Super-apps in India

Media Part 2 — New game. New rules

Real vs Popular

When you love something, it's a bottomless pool...

WFH Revolution?

Time flew by

The News on Newspapers — Part 1: Death & Dissection

Why did Zoom choose Oracle Cloud?

DrinkPrime, GE & Outcomes-as-a-Service

Meta-thoughts on the Microsoft Office vs Google Docs debate

Sounds like there’s demand for another post!

Examining Casteism 2

The Eternal wait

Huawei vs Google

Living a Google-free life with a Huawei phone

Knowledge worker interviews are weird

Every action is a vote for the type...

I think you should always bear in mind...

Hyderabad and Courage

Pareto Habits

When people compulsively indulge in cheap desires over...

You do not rise to the level of your goals

Beyond the threshold of survival, man no longer...

For any given topic, there is a gap...

Decadence & The End

Politics and war are a continuum

Amateurs call it genius

Lull

Experiencing Vipassana — Part 1

Experiencing Vipassana — Part 2

Triple Whammy

TFP Improvements

Rev your engines

Exams are over!

Hello World (of ISB)

Why do we flake on jobs and what to do about it?

Notes to self: Death and Taxes

Content Wars

Super-apps are coming to the Indian Internet

Review of Drive

> If Darwin is right, then life is meaningless without risk

Copy/Photo mismatch

Super-apps are coming to the Indian Internet

Foresight teaches gently, hindsight brutally @nw3 on twitter

Village diaries

When you’re bored and switching channels on TV...

Slow down and enjoy life

What is Culture?

Intentionality

Product & Distribution - Both

Mo Quotes

The greatest catalyst is having your ass on...

What does Artificial Intelligence bring us?

PM interview questions

There is no such thing as a “big startup”

SEPTEMBER

Shitty descriptions imply no value

You should always study bad examples of your own art form

I’m bookmarking all the “AI will revolutionise X”...

Successful investing isn’t about picking the right stocks...

God! struggling with problem with months...

Happiness is when what you think, what you...

PROBLEM KYA HAI?

History doesn't get written

Not “Diversity Candidate” find your “Hidden gems”

A moment of pride - Instamojo pulls off an iPhone

Year-in-review / Looking back on 2016

Restaurant: Product team

Live forward but Think Backwards

The Process is the Product

Diversity, Inclusion and embracing weird people

Companies, founders and gene pools

You wouldn’t carry your TV into the bathroom

Shipping is Winning … or is it?

The Peter Limit and a Growth Mindset

Boiling the frog of your own inhibitions

Being PM

This is the difference between looking diverse and being diverse.

A mistake is not something to be determined...

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig

I have found that all ugly things are...

Not enough time and characters to correct all...

Just got the MIUI 8 update on my...

If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse

Effective and credible systems are not about right...

A gripe

The Internet vs The Idiot box

I hate banks

explore-blog: > **Geoff Dyer** on the paradoxical rewards...

Through this video I stumbled on Tim Cooks...

Career choices

Not just about bandwidth

My mom sent me an SMS to tell...

Why will I use this?

Everyone seems to be cognitively over-loaded, too many...

Work hard. Get lucky.

Defining Experience

Support is the new Sales

Introducing the next generation of Checkout forms designed for better conversions

The process for getting smarter

In order to achieve real success, you need...

Twitter Complaints = $$$?

Saying NO

Google Charged With Breaking Europe’s Antitrust Rules

How do I transition to being a Product Manager?

How do I transition to being a Product Manager?

The attributes of people who get things done

LOTD #1: This because not-that is a bad pitch

Defining “User Experience”

Reparations for minor transgressions

Places around Bangalore

Ideas (culture) People = Producs

Startup Virus

How’s this different from X?

themanwithfrozenhearts: > im a really affectionate person once...

Mission control we have a problem

You can save yourself a lot of trouble,...

Hot day Cold beer *gulp “aah” Bliss From...

“Software is eating the world” - Marc Andreesen...

Pet peeve

Thanks to reading some strange books, I now...

My heart was broken, it made me sad

Mouth Shut

Fight fire with fire

Wealth vs IQ - The false aura of wealth

Launching

For the days when my dazzling wit falls a bit short

Just do it .. in little steps

**Anonymous:** What's your ultimate goal in life

When startups in India became truly mainstream

Process

I ended up doing something mildly not nice...

Burn baby burn - At the team off...

Looking back on 2014s goals

On Sexism

We should do away with the absolutely specious...

Testing the mouse Also, the image used is...

Technology is neither good or bad, nor is...

Famous last words

Thoughts on http://news

**Meraa falsafaa kandhe pe mera bastaa ...

lensblr-network: > Water mirror, Bordeaux, France portfolio, stages...

Inspirational bullshit may be bullshit but it’s still inspiring

Teach your kids to learn how to learn

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos changes name to Jeff Bansal

Crackers on Diwali

First they came for the Socialists, and I...

Bemoaning specialization

Against criticism of Internet.org

Data sharing model needs to change You need...

Beggars

Dear fellow Indians, It’s great to see you...

The startup dream - From Southparks latest episode...

Managing delays

Visual Post

Kahaani ghar ghar ki

The setup

Advice for People in Their Twenties - Johnny Webber

Data driven parliament  all laws tested on parliamentarians...

Infographic/video about the whole photo printing process from...

Witnessing my first bribe

The railroad width in US and Europe is...

The only ten things you need to know to be a great leader

You cannot save people, you can only love them

21st century moms

Happenings in heavily networked worlds

Sharing is caring

However, if you are trying to solve a...

Dear Youtube

Jan Feb March April review

An experience

Terribly tiny tale

We met at the wrong time

Moving between mediums

Missing my first train

Ab ki baar . . bhi sab bakwaas hai yaar!

Future frape

One of favourite poems and a tale of...

Indian Elections 2014

The Pensieve turned 2 today

The next thing we need

Ray William Johnson and the power of brands

Beautiful technology

The young monk on the road to moksha

1991: Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is working at CERN...

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears...

Titanic: Getting Started With R

**Anonymous:** Hey Dalan, what's the best and worst...

Half the story

we’re all crack addicts

Dumbest guy

During a meeting i hit my right knee...

Date a guy

Looking out the bus window

**How hashtags are meant to be used

Stream vs Board

Creating a URL shortener on Google App Engine

The post internet brain

Startups in india

SWOT for Microsoft

Jan 2014 Audit

misanthropos

“You’ll worry less about what people think about...

Shock

The tax system disincentivizes happiness

Within

Decentralization

How has life changed after graduating college?

#100happydays is an elaborate excuse for doing whatever the...

Why i love twiiter/people don't get social networks yet

What would you do if you knew you were dying?

PROPOSITUM MMXIV

Wise and old

Inspired by the cover photo of a colleague

Issued in public interest

Racism and other X-isms

Science is not a vertical, it's a horizontal —

The age old questions

How you feel after successfully killing spam on facebook

I want to see the expression on a...

Research is to see what everybody else has...

Culture shock

Manly pride

Flaws

Love these rules

You and your work of art

Happiness in a couple of graphs

I see an imPoster!

I only know how to cook Maggi

New Yahoo mail

Abstract

Incongruence

Kindle experience

Twitter bio

The customary check in & picking a side

Spread ideas go a restaurant for conversations and...

Words - 29th Aug

Diary sections

Make the most of the internet

piracy and those murky waters

Stop posting bullshit

A searchable graph of everything

Internet+Education

Welcome to the Internet of things

Moving (web) home

Yankees mexican minions #DespicableNe

natgeofound: > A view of a bathing ghat...

A South Indian cuisine #wordCloud (at Vasanta Bhavan...

Life is full of tough decisions #beer #poster #friday

Quietly gaming in the Bombay rains

Electrons vs Sex > Happened to be playing...

Electrons vs Sex > Happened to be playing...

A random cover photo to mark the day...

99 problems but Android ain't one

explore-blog: > Why habit is the secret of creativity

FlickR gets an upgrade: Thoughts

Nadia Ali - Pressure is a chemical reaction

Gamification on Coursera - Assignment 3

Personality traits

New hire in the Facebook India office #fbspacehack...

Online Octave interpreters

Reality is fucked up, stop blaming the internet...

Don't make plans, make love — Yours truly

Rains in Hyderabad

A collage of parodies of Edvard Munchs famous...

Darkness

Alcohol is making you fat

Life is a superposition of high frequency low...

Google Shopping - The best online store

All that is necessary for evil to triumph...

12 Things to do during a Power Cut

Slactivism

The Gamification of bitch work

The Whatsapp payment model

**tumblrbot:** WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT

Education Inflation

Open Data : Looking beyond Open source

Bypass SonicWall

LokPal : From Cynicism to Optimism

The Best is sometimes invisible

The World's most Powerful Force

BarCamp Goa Poster

Thermal Imaging Poster

The Marketing Paradox : Changing Messages

The Age of The Pirate

Phase out Facebook

Education today . .

McDonalds and The Power of Pairs

The Time for Linux is now

The Microsoft Nokia deal

I wanna do an MS but my CG..

Confessions

How did the Duck Hunt gun work?

Losing my virginity - A really good book

Researchers turn USB cable into attack tool

Who feels like a plastic bag ?!

Religion : Say bye to that

Well thought of Philantrophy

Of Man and his friend

Developing a Rational Instinct

Batch Script to Bust Viruses and Recover folders

File Management for Smart (or Lazy) people

This Figure is Impossible to Draw

Live Free : Go Portable with Your Digital Life

Create a self organizing computer with Belvedere

Words of Wisdom : The Remix

VLC looks good too!

Find Stuff similar to what you already like

ACB Sir cracks a geeky one!

Turn Your RSS feeds into an e-newspaper

Death of the boring blog post Not Really!

Sites to Save your favourite Software And Prevent a Headache

“Blessed are the Geek For they shall inherit the earth”…

IE6 No More

Licensing Your Blog

VLC player is finally 1.0.0

Hello world!