Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Optimism
Disappointment and Optimism are two sides of the same coin. Disappointment is a result of expectation not being met and expectations are a result of positivity. Children cry often because they are optimistic. They have a sense of loss when they don’t get something. As we grow older this unbounded optimism dies; we just call…
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Yahoo! – The Upside
A lot of ink has been spilt on the many mistakes made by Yahoo. How the company refused to buy Google or Facebook when the opportunity existed. Yahoo might in fact be a story of many missed opportunities. But those misses did not really define the failure. Yahoo failed because of a series of poor…
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VR Vs AR, which way is the battle headed?
The paradigms of computing are changing. In the past 3 decades, computers changed the way in which we have been communicating and carrying out day to day activities. Over the past 10 years, the mobile revolution swept the world and has for better or for worse changed the way which we interact with the world…
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Costs we incur without knowing
This is an image I took today morning at ITPL, Whitefield. This security guard was protected by sand bags and all. I have had the privilege of going to the ‘Madras Sappers’ campus in Bangalore which is a military establishment and there is no sentinel in place there once you pass the gate. Truth be…
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Turning a Startup into an Organisation
I have been working with startups for a fairly long time now. The fun part of working with startups is that there is absolutely no way to anticipate what would come next. You have to be fast and nimble, constantly adjusting to the changes that are happening around you. This is precisely what makes building…
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Law is being disrupted
The law does not care about right and wrong. It cares about intention. That is why a murderer can claim temporary insanity and plead not guilty. The trouble with law is that it is defined with a set of assumptions in mind. Every once in a while there is a change, a disruption, a…
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My thoughts on Flipkart…
I should begin by clarifying that I am no expert on E-Commerce. I do not hate Flipkart, although as a once loyal customer, I hate to see what is happening to the company. I do not know any Flipkart employee personally, and these are my thoughts as an external observer. I have worked in the…
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Context and Perspective
We all want to do the right thing and refrain from doing the wrong thing. Truth be told, we do not even know what is right and wrong. Most often only a thin line divides the two. This line usually is our ability to justify our actions to society in general. Let us engage in…
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Time Management
I meet entrepreneurs regularly; I often come across a self-development question that I find really hard to answer. They ask me how do you do so many things? How do you manage time better? I have no clue, partly because I myself was unaware of what time management really meant. ‘To Do’ lists are the…
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