Year: 2009

Celebrating Life

One of my favourite blogs – ZenHabits – posted a thought-provoking piece called ‘Love Life, Not Stuff’.  Here’s a small excerpt : We’re in love

How Schools Kill Creativity

From the day I’ve discovered TED’s video talks, I’ve been hooked.  If I’m not watching at least one video-talk a day, there’s something wrong.  It’s

10 Questions: ITAS

Following a passing reference in a blog post to the Proust Questionnaire, I was reminded of the famous ’10 Questions’ that James Lipton asks every

Know your World

Thanks to a link from one of Atanu’s posts, I discovered the amazingly powerful and insightful data graph of GapMinder on the state of the

Hind Sight

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, I chanced upon another gem from OPENForum – an interview with Tina Seelig of Stanford, author of “What I Wish I

In Pursuit of Elegance

OPENForum recently posted an interview with Matthew May, author of “In Pursuit of Elegance”.  May has spent close to a decade advising Toyota and other

A New Beginning

The biggest news on the Internet today is that the Wolfram | Alpha is finally thrown open to the public!  What’s Alpha, you ask?  It’s

Watterson Wisdom

Following a long trail of web links, I discovered the speech that Bill Watterson gave to the 1990 graduating class of Kenyon College, Ohio.  Being

Good Design

From time to time, I scour the Web for cutting-edge design experiences to stay in touch with the latest developments – a habit that began

Patent Problem

An unusual writeup in the Health section of the New York Times caught my eye… When Genae Girard received a diagnosis of breast cancer in

Restructuring Universities

A link from Rajesh’s Emergic blog led me to an enlightening NYTimes writeup on the limitations of the “University” as we know it : GRADUATE

Learning to Learn

I chanced upon an insightful post on OvercomingBias.com on things to unlearn from school… I suspect the most dangerous habit of thought taught in schools is

Lok Sabha 2009

AJAX based widgets that fetch XML feeds from various sources on Election-related news coverage… GoogleMaps that chart the course from your house to the Electoral

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