Cerebrate Life

Feb 17, 2020
Book Review Sebastian And Sons
Feb 7, 2020
Book Review — Range
Nov 1, 2018
Book Review — The Idol Thief
Oct 10, 2017
Where is Microsoft going?
Oct 10, 2017
Book Review — Hit Refresh
Sep 18, 2017
Cloud — How, Why and Where
Aug 31, 2017
Amazon Whole Foods M&A Lessons
Mar 27, 2017
Book Review — 1991
Mar 23, 2017
Medium Monetization
Feb 27, 2017
Book Review — Industries of the Future
Jan 29, 2017
Is Trump a boon or a bane for Twitter?
Jan 20, 2017
Why do we need credit cards?
Jan 19, 2017
5 takeaways from my India trip
Jan 18, 2017
What I wrote 7 years ago still rings true.
Dec 8, 2016
How to make the most out of re:Invent
Aug 20, 2016
Album Review — All Terrain Guitar
May 16, 2016
Is Prime ready for primetime?
Apr 11, 2016
A case for Route 53
Apr 11, 2016
Shareholder letter on AWS
Apr 8, 2016
Book Review — The Great Speeches of Modern India
Apr 7, 2016
Why I moved to Medium
Feb 3, 2015
The war has just begun
Jan 28, 2015
Spellbound — Juno
Jan 26, 2015
The next big thing
Jan 19, 2015
Book Review — Cockpit Confidential
Dec 29, 2014
Book Review — Cruising Altitude
Dec 19, 2014
Book Review — An Accidental Prime Minister
Dec 17, 2014
Book Review — An Uncertain Glory
Dec 16, 2014
India is #3 on black money
Dec 9, 2014
Book Review — Outliers
Nov 27, 2014
Album Review — Bombay Makossa
Sep 25, 2014
Software defined phones
Sep 15, 2014
Waiting for the cable guy costs us $38 billion
Aug 28, 2014
Bank account for everyone. What?
Aug 11, 2014
Coin — Dead on Arrival?
Jul 15, 2014
TV journalism in India
Mar 26, 2014
NSA — Who pays for it all?
Feb 24, 2014
Minimum Wages
Feb 19, 2014
Intolerance, the plague
Feb 9, 2014
Book Review — A Southern Music
Feb 4, 2014
Jingos Unchained
Jan 30, 2014
Poverty — How is the line drawn?
Jan 16, 2014
Triaging
Jan 8, 2014
Small Innovations
Jan 4, 2014
Surveillance State
Dec 4, 2013
Retail Therapy
Dec 2, 2013
Prime Air
Nov 21, 2013
Coin — Review
Nov 15, 2013
First world third world
Nov 14, 2013
Quid pro quo
Oct 25, 2013
India Peeling
Oct 24, 2013
Book Review: The Lowland
Oct 18, 2013
Indians and Jingoism
Oct 16, 2013
Debt — The vicious circle
Oct 10, 2013
Budget/ Debt Crisis — What’s coming?
Oct 5, 2013
Debt Ceiling Debate II
Sep 25, 2013
Email spam
Sep 25, 2013
Niche or scale?
Sep 16, 2013
Where Internet is politics…
Sep 14, 2013
Rasika
Sep 7, 2013
Why Rajan is no Bond
Sep 5, 2013
Authentication Technologies
Aug 28, 2013
There are no free lunches…
Aug 22, 2013
Rupee crisis for dymmies
Aug 21, 2013
Book Review: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Jul 19, 2013
Book Review: Schneier on Security
Jul 7, 2013
Why I reject the notion of inequality
Jul 4, 2013
IPL — A perspective
Jun 20, 2013
Album Review — Beyond the Ragasphere
Jun 20, 2013
Book Review: India Grows by Night
Jun 20, 2013
A word on (in) Tamil
Jun 5, 2013
Book Review: Conversations with Mani Ratnam
May 9, 2013
Book Review: Shantaram
Mar 19, 2013
Academy Awards
Dec 14, 2012
Eulogies
Oct 5, 2012
Difficult task
Sep 12, 2012
Book Review: Currency Wars
Aug 25, 2012
Book Review: Half the Sky
Aug 20, 2012
Point of View
Aug 15, 2012
Book Review: Audacity of Hope
Aug 9, 2012
What does India need?
Aug 8, 2012
Spellbound: Email delays
Aug 5, 2012
Sattena Nanaindhadhu
Aug 2, 2012
What is your role in your life?
Jul 27, 2012
Book Review: Straight From the Gut
Jul 20, 2012
What is Free Press?
Jul 19, 2012
Book Review: Why Nations Fail
Jul 14, 2012
History of Food
Jul 12, 2012
Spellbound: What do you with your time?
Jul 12, 2012
Kings need to (make us) laugh too!
Jul 11, 2012
What are you?
Jul 4, 2012
Debating — Skill or art?
Jul 2, 2012
Atheism Vs Agnosticism — What do they mean anyways?
Jun 30, 2012
Humming Now #17
Jun 28, 2012
How do stand-up comedies work?
Jun 19, 2012
Concert etiquette
Jun 19, 2012
English, the utility
Jun 19, 2012
Over-confident people achieve more
Jun 19, 2012
Social Story-telling
Jun 13, 2012
Which view?
Jun 7, 2012
Top 5 lessons
May 22, 2012
Be judged
May 22, 2012
Social Postage
May 21, 2012
Book Review: The Great Partition
May 14, 2012
Humming Now #16
May 11, 2012
Rand and me
May 1, 2012
Book Review: It Happened In India
Apr 16, 2012
Book Review: Predictably Irrational
Apr 15, 2012
Moment of truth
Apr 14, 2012
Book review: Rita Hayworth
Apr 14, 2012
Spellbound — Indian IT Industry
Apr 10, 2012
Book review: In spite of the gods
Mar 16, 2012
Mind is a monkey
Mar 14, 2012
What’s your secret sauce?
Mar 13, 2012
Ringtones
Feb 25, 2012
Manadhil urudhi vendum
Feb 21, 2012
Spellbound — Cloud Computing
Feb 5, 2012
Coffee with me
Jan 17, 2012
Are you late?
Dec 29, 2011
Humming Now #15
Dec 29, 2011
Spellbound: Perspective
Dec 21, 2011
Could Amazon come up with a phone?
Dec 17, 2011
Ilayaraja glows again
Oct 26, 2011
Simple is difficult
Oct 17, 2011
What is 2011 a “Year Of”?
Oct 17, 2011
iPhone 4S
Oct 10, 2011
Job of a CEO
Oct 1, 2011
Indian Mythology
Sep 29, 2011
Ecosystems at War
Sep 29, 2011
Net Neutrality — What is the true cost?
Sep 21, 2011
Bharathiar the Visionary
Sep 20, 2011
World War III?
Sep 19, 2011
Executive Mistakes
Sep 7, 2011
USPS and its survival
Sep 6, 2011
HOV lanes and economics
Aug 29, 2011
Future of the phone
Aug 22, 2011
Eat healthy: “Reboot” your system
Aug 3, 2011
Debt issue explained
Jul 20, 2011
Be mindful what you search!
Jul 8, 2011
Economics and conditioning
Jul 5, 2011
Spellbound — Weekend cliché
Jun 26, 2011
Disabled
May 16, 2011
Westernize, modernize et al…
May 6, 2011
India’s gold frenzy
Apr 17, 2011
Sewing machine
Apr 7, 2011
Humming Now #14
Apr 5, 2011
iPad 2 — Review
Feb 17, 2011
Music Review — Bada Boom
Feb 12, 2011
Music Review — Three for the music
Feb 11, 2011
I Egypted, therefore I am
Feb 5, 2011
IPv4 — What is the reality?
Feb 3, 2011
How do you define knowledge?
Jan 11, 2011
Travel: My most favorite place in the world (ahem, America)
Dec 22, 2010
Spellbound — DSLR camera marketshare
Dec 19, 2010
Spellbound — PATH
Dec 14, 2010
Spellbound — Toyota Recalls
Dec 13, 2010
Future of terrorism
Dec 10, 2010
Cloud — A primer
Nov 23, 2010
Who would you like to be?
Nov 20, 2010
Security Theater
Nov 10, 2010
Gadget Review: Playbook
Oct 26, 2010
Play Right — Internet TV
Oct 25, 2010
Play Right — WD MyBook World Edition II
Oct 12, 2010
Gender Equality
Oct 9, 2010
Phone, TV and Now What?
Oct 8, 2010
Bubble and Burst — What happened?
Oct 7, 2010
Cynicism — good or not?
Oct 4, 2010
India Shining (and Jugaad Culture)
Sep 23, 2010
Memories of Madras
Sep 22, 2010
Women Empowerment
Aug 31, 2010
Humming Now #13
Aug 30, 2010
Book Review: The Post-American World
Aug 26, 2010
Spellbound: Just Enough Quality (JEQ)
Aug 24, 2010
Music Review — Tarunam
Aug 22, 2010
Net Neutrality — A roundup
Aug 21, 2010
Leadership found here
Aug 13, 2010
Is there an Indian Dream?
Aug 8, 2010
When do you become rich?
Aug 6, 2010
Net Neutrality
Jul 20, 2010
What do you seek?
Jul 15, 2010
Twitter Vs Blog: A comparison
Jul 13, 2010
Some interesting reads
Jul 12, 2010
Does he include a she?
Jun 23, 2010
Mahakavi
Jun 8, 2010
iphone 4
May 22, 2010
Humming Now #12
May 21, 2010
iPad: Use case
May 10, 2010
Culture of Reading
May 9, 2010
Book Review: India After Gandhi
Apr 27, 2010
Humming now #11
Apr 25, 2010
e-publishing round-up
Apr 25, 2010
Emotional labor
Apr 25, 2010
If a template is all you can offer
Apr 22, 2010
Ground zero
Apr 22, 2010
Spellbound: Feedback
Apr 14, 2010
Classical Music — Demystified
Apr 12, 2010
Book Review: Linchpin
Apr 11, 2010
Review — iPhone OS 4.0
Apr 2, 2010
iPad: An Unreview
Apr 1, 2010
Burgess Falls
Mar 31, 2010
Story of odd numbers
Mar 27, 2010
Humming now #10
Mar 20, 2010
Book Review: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology
Mar 18, 2010
e-book readers — Is there a good reason?
Feb 13, 2010
RK interviews RK
Feb 8, 2010
Noise canceling headphone — A business case
Jan 31, 2010
Thin revolution
Jan 27, 2010
Review: Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara
Jan 27, 2010
Book Review (in < 60 words) : Freakonomics
Jan 26, 2010
Humming now #9
Jan 23, 2010
Humming now #8
Jan 18, 2010
Culture Curtain
Jan 16, 2010
The richest day of my life
Jan 15, 2010
How to make airline companies profitable?
Jan 10, 2010
iSlate
Dec 26, 2009
Book Review : Terror Incorporated
Dec 10, 2009
A living case study
Dec 5, 2009
Humming now #7
Dec 3, 2009
Rio Travelogue
Nov 14, 2009
Sexperiment
Nov 2, 2009
the mac. to buy or not to buy.
Oct 31, 2009
Humming now #6 — Grand Episode
Oct 30, 2009
Humming now #5
Oct 29, 2009
Spellbound — Mass emails
Sep 3, 2009
Humming now #4
Aug 25, 2009
Not so fast
Aug 17, 2009
Spellbound: Retirement
Jul 27, 2009
Battle of the Century
Jul 26, 2009
Has Twitter Killed Blogging and How to blog in the age of Twitter?
Jul 17, 2009
Spellbound: Apparels
Jul 17, 2009
Spellbound: Emails
Jul 17, 2009
Balanced life is a myth
May 5, 2009
Car Dealers 101
Jan 18, 2009
Who will follow suit?
Aug 14, 2008
Music and Literature
Aug 1, 2008
Technology Trends
Jul 30, 2008
The thing about statistics
Jul 11, 2008
iphone 3g
Jul 8, 2008
I hope I am not the first
Jul 2, 2008
Ego for sale
Jun 17, 2008
MSQ
Jun 1, 2008
Our trip to PR
May 31, 2008
A Good Year
May 28, 2008
1929–2008
May 7, 2008
Humming now #3
May 6, 2008
Wi-fi hospitality!
Apr 21, 2008
John’s visit to India
Mar 21, 2008
Bliss
Jan 6, 2008
Stock Market
Jan 2, 2008
Happy New Year
Nov 10, 2007
Nashville is our new home
Oct 24, 2007
Mahakavi
Oct 18, 2007
Mythbuster
Oct 9, 2007
Deafening Silence: Deaf or Silence?
Sep 21, 2007
Mid-air collisions
Sep 7, 2007
Humming now #2
Aug 29, 2007
Lessons of life
Aug 27, 2007
Humming now #1
Jul 31, 2007
Seven Dwarfs
Jul 2, 2007
iPhone
Jul 2, 2007
iPhone — First looks
Nov 4, 2005
The E-Gang
Oct 2, 2005
Kahlil Gibran on Marriage
Sep 20, 2005
Fine prints aren’t fine
Aug 17, 2005
Sweetest substance on earth
Jul 21, 2005
They are busy talking to other customers…
Apr 15, 2005
The Long Emergency
Mar 5, 2005
1929–1990
Feb 2, 2005
If
Jan 26, 2005
Ground zero on Jan 26
Jan 21, 2005
World saves so US can spend
Dec 28, 2004
Which dad?
Dec 14, 2004
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