• Unclear Nuclear

    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 ...
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  • The MBA Dilemma III - Salary Trends

    And now the big one. Salary. Why big? Money makes the world go round. I ain't saying it. Its general consensus. In this article we plan to look at post-MBA salaries across various industries and sectors. Naturally, these depend on the number of years of work experience, the pre-MBA profile, how well defined are the aims of the candidate and the list goes on and on and on. In fact a company called Wetfeet publishes...
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  • Why is it so hard to read others' minds?

    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.
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  • a,b,c and d are four one-dimensional beings.

    The Fourth Dimension

    Analogy is often drawn between one, two , three and higher dimensional beings, and their behaviour, in one two or three dimensions , not respectively. I will try to express my views on one such analogy which everyone is so grossly mistaken about. The dimensions in increasing order are : zero, one, two, three, four….etc. The examples of figures in these dimensions are point, line, square, cube, tesseract… etc res...
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  • The war

    GOOG? MSFT? AAPL?

    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...
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  • India - high cost economy?

    Growing political mayhem and economic mismanagement are turning India into a High Cost Economy. Read that as falling competitiveness, job losses and industrial emigration. On September 12th, 2005, Business week headline read : "Why the world must watch out for India and China". Alas, this very statement created in India a superego that is now hard to get rid of.  We are proud people. A little bit of praise thrown ...
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    The Popcorn Theorem

    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...
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  • Looks simple to me...

    Blockbuster Suicide - talk about a Kamikaze business model

    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...
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  • The MBA Dilemma II - Ranking Analysis

    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...
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  • The data as reported by 78 people

    Social technologies and time interruptions

    This is an analysis of how to strategically think about adopting a new social technology – if you value your freedom that is. The DATA: I asked a lot of my friends about what isthe time they think that occurs between interruptions, if one has access to any of the social technologies listed below – and here are the results: (for all practical purposes “Boss” is considered as a technology) I assumed (as is us...
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