Mitra
20 years ago, as I was wrapping up my last on-campus semester, I wrote these lines for friends that I made for life
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2024
Jalvayu Parivartan
Avni's entry in the poem recital competition
2020
Monorepo and Heroku
If you use a monorepo setup to power multiple apps, using Heroku isn't straight forward, however is easy and definitely possible.
Narrative Chasm
A good narrative is as important as an excellent product, however be vary of believing the story yourself.
10 random facts that I find very fascinating
And they have nothing to do with my usual interests in startups, programming or movies.
8 useful Rails Bytes to improve your development process
Rails Bytes is a platform to share useful Ruby on Rails templates
Custom fonts in your Rails app
Using custom font in your rails app is simple, but not that straight forward
Mac - How to fix Python error "ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found"
This error is actually because of Homebrew and not exactly because of Python
Microrequests
Microrequests is a wrapper over Python's requests module - makes it more efficient to consume microservices in Python
Blockr
Blockr is a commnand line utility to block websites that distract you
Slack Etiquette
Create a better & saner work environment
2019
13 December
Thermodynamics Compri, homesickness and Delhi
2018
How to engineer an MVP
A few things to take care while building your MVP
Speed and Quality
Should speed and quality be mutually exclusive?
2017
From a great consumer product to a lasting tech giant
I love twitter for their product, and have spent some time thinking why it’s not succeeding as a company. As far as my naive thinking goes, there are more th...
Tavi's New Year Speech
Tavi, my 8 year old niece, gave a speech on New Year today. It was very well received, posting it here to preserve it.
2016
GCP vs AWS
Ben Thompson of Stratechery recently wrote a post on how Google Cloud Platform is challenging AWS. It’s a very well thought out and interesting post.
Start up vs Big Company
Your company is no longer a startup if it can succeed without its people succeeding or its people can succeed without it succeeding. First thing happens when...
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1-6 November 2016
Posts I read last week
23-31 October 2016
सब्ज़ी वाला
Short Story
Inflation
We take inflation for granted. We relate it with growing economies, and...
Posts I read last week
17-23 October 2016
Digital Colonies
Is our time and attention new land to be explored and are Internet giants new colonial powers?
Prayas
बहने दो जिंदगी यूँ ही..
Posts I read last week
15-16 October 2016
Parivar
Tavi's entry in poem recital competition
Happy Birthday Shikhi
मेरा गाँव
Khargosh
खरगोश नहीं, मैं तो अवनि हूँ पापा
Happy Mother's Day
Avni's first month
कुछ मुस्कुराहट और कुछ ग़ुस्सा
Avni
अवनि ईज़ हियर
2015
Game Theory and Public Systems
Short note on corruption in public systems and how to see it from a game theory perspective
Speed
I recently read a post - Speed as a habit. It’s a great post, and I agree with the author on almost everything. It is very common to see decision-makers know...
Garbage Truck
शुभचिंतक नहीं, गार्बेज ट्रक है वह
Ten years
Ten years ago, on this day, I started working at my first job. I was in Bangalore for six months already and had interned at LG before. I still remember the ...
Don't murder - don't drink and drive
Shikhi felt very strongly about the recent drink and drive case and wrote about it in this post. Do educated people know how to behave in a society? I shoul...
Growing startups and technical debt
I recently read a post - Why the way we look at technical debt is wrong. I do agree that for a company it is important to reach to it’s users as soon as po...
Job offers and Start-ups
Recently, one of my friends, who works in the hiring industry, commented that I have undersold myself whole my life. I think he’s right and though more appar...
The Country of the Blind
In the country of the blind, is the one-eyed man always a king?
Hackintosh
My five-hour struggle to install Yosemite on an old Lenevo laptop; some learnings
I will meet you again
Amrita Pritam's poem - originally in Punjabi. She wrote it for her partner and eminent painter Imroz
Future of Mobile Apps
My thoughts on future of mobile apps
2013
शब्द होते हैं हरे
Words!
2012
जड़ें
In search of my roots
2011
1 August 2001
Ten years ago on this day, I joined college. Memories of my first day there
What is your good name?
How do we learn new languages?
I, Draupadi
Kartikeya Sarabhai, son of legendary Indian space scientist Vikram Sarabhai, wrote this brilliant poem in 1989, after watching a play on great Indian epic Ma...
Motive Matters
Is doing right thing sufficient or motive matters?
shipX - Holistic approach to logistics
Bangalore Mirror interviews me for their Ideas Factory section.
2010
SAAS Based Freight Management Solution, Shipx Brings Collaboration to Transportation Business
Pluggd.in wrote about shipX today
Change We Need!
Indian Politicians