That, Detective, Is the Right Question!

Friday, December 21, 2012

Back to Blogger

I am back to blogger (again). Do not ask why. (I too do not know). The current plan is to publish longish posts to blogger. This blog will go to a lot of cleaning in next few days.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Facebook went under the hammer at NASDAQ today. From a Harvard startup to a billion dollar public company - Facebook's journey is filled with ambitions, grit and lawsuits. Here is a collection of links from around web about Facebook -

At NASDAQ -

Facebook goes public (via @cri) -

At Facebook's Hyderabad (India) office (via Manoj Verghese)-

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: from Harvard hijinks to hoody billionaire

The social network's stock market debut has made Zuckerberg the 23rd wealthiest person on earth but he's no evil genius (via Guardian.co.uk)

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Zuckerberg's Secret IMs From College

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Disappointing 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'

Frankly, the movie was a disappointment. Intrigue should not necessarily mean silence. Silence is thrilling only when it leads to somewhere, it builds anticipation. In this movie the silence is - well, silent. For first 10 minutes of the movie, barring a few minutes in the beginning, Gary Oldman keeps on walking nowhere! You never know why this test of patience of the viewer?

Here is a similar voice about failure of the movie to give justice to John Le Carré's original espionage story - Forget the Film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: See the BBC Original (Huffington Post).

I would rather recommend 'L'affaire Farewell'. Inspite of its lower rating on IMDB, I felt that the movie is far better than 'Tinker, Tailor...'

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Steve Jobs on India [From the Exclusive Biography]

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their inlellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.
Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civihzation. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways is not. That's the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.
Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought.

From Steve Jobs - The Exclusive Biography.