You Need Humanities
Last week, Indian Twitter [1] was discussing merit and its role in social or professional advancement. While this correlation is tenuous at best (see this comic strip), there is an underlying...
View ArticlePrivacy vs. Free
“I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal...
View ArticleWhat Twitter Can Be
An excellent list of ideas of what Twitter can be. I wouldn’t mind a read-only Twitter with only the ability to favorite (call it Like though) or even a curated timeline for live events by topic.
View ArticleCode | Bloomberg
“Code has been my life, and it has been your life, too. It is time to understand how it all works.” An excellent primer into understanding code, algorithms, software, programming, and all the everyday...
View ArticleHow India and Pakistan became enemies
Horrific account of post-partition targeted violence and how “the riots fatally undermined any trust Pakistani leaders may have had in their Indian counterparts.”
View ArticleAustin is America’s Next Great Food Town
“Every day, 164 people move to Austin, Texas, the nation’s second-fastest-growing city. The next morning, they all get in line at Franklin BBQ.” It’s official. Austin is America’s next great food town.
View ArticleThe Confederate Cause in the Words of Its Leaders
“Roof’s belief that black life had no purpose beyond subjugation is “sick and twisted” in the exact same manner as the beliefs of those who created the Confederate flag were “sick and twisted.”...
View ArticleSix Months of Cooking Experiments
I usually don’t make New Year resolutions but I decided to give it a shot this year and deliberately didn’t announce it. I wanted to try out cooking various recipes beyond the usual desi fare. We have...
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Beware of Phishing Attacks
The majority of the time your online accounts get ‘hacked’, it is because of social engineering more than technical vulnerabilities. This is applicable for normal folks like us and obviously high-value...
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A New Addition to the Family
We have been considering getting another dog for a while. But at the same time, being responsible for one more individual in the household especially when things get uncertain have been deterring us....
View ArticleJon Stewart May Be Irreplaceable…and That’s Just Fine
Jon Stewart may be irreplaceable…and that’s just fine. #JonVoyage
View ArticleDhanyawaad
In India, people—especially when they are your elders, relatives, or close friends—tend to feel that by thanking them, you’re violating your intimacy with them and creating formality and distance that...
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The Land of the Blue Smoke
Shaconage, or the land of the blue smoke as the Cherokee Indians called what we now call the Great Smoky Mountains. Straddling the state lines of Tennessee and North Carolina, this most-frequented...
View ArticleNo one knows anything
There have been plenty of horrific incidents lately wrought on by ISIS. People of Paris, Beirut, and in otherwise on a continual basis of Iraq and Syria have been devastated by these wanton attacks....
View ArticleNothing Left to Learn
Twitter is rapidly approaching that point where you no longer learn anything new from or you can no longer teach anyone new. Twitter’s quarterly report may suggested that growth has stagnated but I...
View Article‘Easy’ Cooking Isn’t Easy
An entire industry has been built on the premise that creating gourmet meals at home is simple and effortless. But it isn’t true.
View ArticleSaving Atheism from New Atheists
The problems in the Middle East stemmed, not from imperial meddling in an oil-rich region but from Islam itself, a faith that resulted from (and then fostered) delusional thinking. On that basis,...
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Sonos and iTunes
We recently bought a Sonos system for our home. It’s a simple starter set (Bridge + 2 Play:1 speakers). I was looking for an audio system for our home to pipe music simultaneously to two or more rooms...
View ArticleStanford study finds walking improves creativity
Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. They examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person’s creative output increased by an...
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