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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Killing an idea: The good, the bad and the ugly way

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If you are serious about innovation, then killing an idea should be normal. And even if you feel, you don’t kill ideas, chances are high ide...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Searching the source of "low-cost car" idea in India

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“Don’t go looking for the source of a river” goes a saying in my mother tongue – Marathi. A BBC documentary does exactly that as it traces ...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Electronic Voting Machine: An innovation from Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)

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Imagine you are designing a product that will be used by several hundred million users within a matter of a few days. What do you think woul...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

What legends learn from gambling: Warren Buffett & the Rules of the Racetrack

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I don’t gamble. At least that is what I would have liked to believe. “Nice people don’t gamble” is what I was told in school and at home. Bu...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

S. Chandrasekhar and his attempts to get away from Astrophysics

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I went back to Nobel Laureate S. Chandrasekhar’s biography a few months back after 17 years. Chandra written by Kameshwar Wali was a birthd...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

My most favorite YouTube video and the marvels & the flaws of intuition

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Chances are high your most favorite YouTube video is very different from mine in its form and content. Mine is neither a funny clip nor a mu...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Vinay Deolalikars proof of P=NP and the power of "web-test"

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There are several ways of making a million dollars. One way suggested by Warren Buffett is to start with a billion dollars and invest them i...