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Move over Mandrill/Mailchimp: Setting up transactional email, such as welcome emails, in Ruby using…

You know those (annoying/helpful) emails you get when you first sign up for a service?

Aug 7, 2017

Move over Mandrill/Mailchimp: Setting up transactional email, such as welcome emails, in Ruby using…

Aug 7, 2017

Snigdha Sur

Salting our wounds: If web sites aren’t storing our passwords, how do passwords get stolen anyway?

One of the most surprising discoveries I made this week at Flatiron School is that secure Web sites — and now, industry standard — never…

Jul 28, 2017

Salting our wounds: If web sites aren’t storing our passwords, how do passwords get stolen anyway?

Jul 28, 2017

Snigdha Sur

Eat your spinach and get to know Popeye: Choosing classes for your second year at HBS

In the past few days, many HBS first-years have emailed me to ask one critical question:

Jul 24, 2017

Eat your spinach and get to know Popeye: Choosing classes for your second year at HBS

Jul 24, 2017

Snigdha Sur

Go slow to move fast: Building a game in Ruby for the first time

The story is familiar. You’re given an abstract task with a lofty goal. We need to build a rocket to the moon, they say. You have limited…

Jul 14, 2017

Go slow to move fast: Building a game in Ruby for the first time

Jul 14, 2017

Snigdha Sur

Why I Code (or, more appropriately: Why code? Why now?)

Some of the best writing I encountered during my second semester in business school was by Timothy McCarthy explaining why he wrote. Why…

Jul 12, 2017

Why I Code (or, more appropriately: Why code? Why now?)

Jul 12, 2017

Snigdha Sur

One of the most surprising slides on Mary Meeker’s Internet trends report

When I went through Mary Meeker’s Internet trends report, I wasn’t too shocked by most of her insights. She added necessary structure to…

Jun 19, 2015

One of the most surprising slides on Mary Meeker’s Internet trends report

Jun 19, 2015

Snigdha Sur

That Bombay taxi strike though

I’ve seen a couple of transportation strikes. I lived through the MTA strike that cold December in high school when I had to the take the…

Jun 17, 2015

That Bombay taxi strike though

Jun 17, 2015

Snigdha Sur

From The Lion King to Haider

Why Hamlet keeps haunting

Oct 6, 2014

From The Lion King to Haider

Oct 6, 2014

Snigdha Sur

Some thoughts on founding and Bollywood

Jul 17, 2014

Jul 17, 2014

Snigdha Sur

Snigdha Sur

writing on coding, tech, bollywood | diversifying media so that we can see ourselves in what we consume | formerly @ HBS, McKinsey, Otter/Chernin

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