I wrote [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/12/07/life-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/] about Bill Gates philanthropic work earlier. While Bill Gates will step down from his role at Microsoft this July, Melinda Gates talks [http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/news/newsmakers/gates.fortune/index.htm] about living with Bill,…
It takes truly magical thinking to imagine we will keep resolutions [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1699853,00.html] that experience suggests are generally impossible. One study found that nearly a quarter of us lapse within a week, the vast majority before the year is out.…
A pigment in the skin, melanin, determines the skin color in all of us. Melanin itself, however, is red (pheomelanin), or dark-brown to nearly black (eumelanin). Skin color selection is more genetic at birth, but what intrigues me is that as we “evolve” we get selective, in a vastly wasteful…
Books on history and sociology tell us that as civilization grew, we created rules. A group of “powerful” people introduced governments. Then a smaller group of “wealthy” people made corporations. And gradually, the dynamics changed from democracy to corpocracy [http://www.amazon.com/Corpocracy-Business-Roundtable-Hijacked-Greatest/dp/0470145099/ref=pd_bbs_sr_…
In the tech community, people often believe that an “idea” can make them the next Google or the next Facebook. However, its not essentially the idea that drives the wagon. It’s the simplicity of the idea in solving something that matters. Take the toothbrush for example. It’s a…
Google’s new Chart API [http://code.google.com/apis/chart/] lets you dynamically generate charts, through a ultra-simple HTTP request. Ridiculously easy and useful!…
> My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. It’s an interesting observation that if people believe that their life (or society, or their work-place for that matter) will be the best that can be, they will do everything…
Microsoft has released [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/140319/microsoft_offers_volta_for_web_apps_development.html] a technology preview of its Volta Web developer toolset [http://labs.live.com/volta/], which is intended to make it easier to build multi-tier Web applications, including applications useful in SaaS [http:…