This experiment started about a month ago, when I noticed that no matter at whichever setting you pop the microwave popcorn, there are always some kernels left unpopped. So either there must be an optimal setting of the microwave OR these kernels should not be there in the packet. I tried to pop various packets at different power levels at different times in the Microwave. The recommended settings are usually...

A good intellectual discussion on Google's Strategy, between two great thinkers on Planet Earth. Me After relentlessly aping Yahoo (email, maps, search, messenger, local), Apple (G1, App Store, et al), Microsoft (OS, Live mail, Docs, Browser), Google sets its eyes on Facebook. I think they should get an award for being the least creative company in the world - the only innovation they came up with was Google...

The Financial Times does a BORDA COUNT on all the factors responsible for ranking a B-School. However, some of these factors are not really "factors of competition". So from a voting perspective this article looks at the modified rankings of B-Schools, using the PLURALITY method of voting, considering the effect of removing the insignificant factors. The current article will look at the intimidating number of...

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/blockbuster-express-digital-rent-movies-on-sd-cards-20091110/# Last week Kingston announced it was going to start bundling movies with sales of Flash memory products, this week Blockbuster has announced you can start renting movies on SD cards. Now correct me if I'm wrong but out of the following two scenarios what looks good? This is what a sane human (Blockbuster management...

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realised that what you heard is not what I meant. Rebecca Saxe tries to address the problem of how we develop the neural infrastructure to think about others' thoughts. The region of the brain called the RPTJ can actually, on external stimulation change people's perceptions of what is fair and what is not.

Washington, July 10: Invoking national interest, renowned spiritual guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, has appealed to all Indian political parties to display ‘magnanimity’ and support the troubled Indo-US nuclear deal. "All parties must support the deal that is beneficial to the country," he said. India has always had a tradition of the government and opposition coming together in national interest whenever a crisis ...

I came across this article on http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_happiness_genie/ Suppose a genie appears and gives you two choices. The first option is that he will give you $10 million dollars, but everyone else you know will get $20 million apiece. Choice two: You get $5 million, but no one else gets anything. As a bonus, the genie offers to erase your memory of having made the choice, so guilt will never...

I often watch videos off the TED site, but some videos related to India, off late, set me thinking. Shashi Tharoor and the Power of Soft Power (referred to as ST from now on) Devdutt Pattanaik on East v/s West (referred to as DP from now on) Mallika Sarabhai - Dance to Save the World (referred to as MS from now on) I couldn't help but notice and laugh (yes, laugh) at the commonalities that these speakers......

After getting TONS of experience now for one year of researching GMAT and MBA stuff, I present prospective with MBAs some results of my research. In this post I shall be discussing only MBA degrees offered by colleges accepting GMAT and/or TOEFL scores for the same. Ok. Let's assume that you have already taken a decision to get an MBA. The reasons might be varied. You hate your job - want to switch an industry....

I did this as an assignment on the MBA. Since it is my own work - I chose to declassify it. A critical assessment of “Marketing Myopia” – Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, 1975 in context of the contemporary Green Energy Industry. If you have pests in your house, what do you do? Build better and better mousetraps, or actually address the cause of infestation? For decades many companies have learnt the trut...