I travelled to US on a personal trip for a few weeks around the New Year. I explored many new products, and got a chance to see the products I use regularly from a new angle. I will talk about specific experiences which I found interesting. Booking Flights While booking international flights…

Amazon launched an impressive demo of their vision for a futuristic offline shopping experience called Amazon Go earlier this week. The commercial starts with these lines: Four years ago we started to wonder, what would shopping look like if you could walk into a store grab what you want and…

Review originally written on GoodReads Playing It My Way By Sachin Tendulkar & Boria Mazumdar First, although I don’t think this is a great book, Sachin fans should anyways read it. If you have ever been in Bandstand, Mumbai with a Shahrukh fan, you know that they are going to…

I was seeing the movie A Time to Kill on TV yesterday. The movie — based on a John Grisham novel — is about a black man (Samuel Jackson in a great performance) and his lawyer (played by Matthew McCounaghey). Jackson’s character kills two white supremacists who rape and try…

Uber has attracted a lot of press coverage in the recent past for their surge pricing rules. State governments in India have been pushing the company hard to comply with licensing requirements and do away with surge pricing. Seeing the surge price indicator when you open the Uber app is…

Book #2 that I read in 2016. Running behind on the 24 books that I want to read this year. Review also on GoodReads I read Peter Thiel’s Zero to One right after reading Ben Horowitz’s The Hard things about Hard Things.If I go back to classifying books like the…

Mobile platforms are spreading beyond apps to become the hub of a diverse set of IoT (Internet of Things) devices — from smart cars to fitness trackers. …

If you take a look at Visa’s annual report (pdf) for 2013, there are some interesting numbers. $12 billion in annual revenue, 2.2 billion cards and $4.3 …

That was one of the big insights for me when I switched to Gmail — they had conversations which made life easier, more storage, and finally it had good search. There wasn’t good search in email before that. And search isn’t just useful after the fact. It’s useful while you’re…