Vestigial Skills

The term Vestigial, in the context of body parts, refers to features and parts of the human body that have lost their significance and/or utility over the course of human evolution. For example, the earlobe, the appendix, the coccyx, the human hair, the wisdom teeth and few other organs are…

Book Review — Hit Refresh

We have heard FANG. And FAANG. There is an obvious missing element here — Microsoft.

Microsoft had lost several years of market leadership because of the declining software licensing business and the yet-to-pick-up cloud business. But they are coming back…

5 takeaways from my India trip

Since I first moved to the US, my frequency of trips back to India have reduced in frequency and in duration. Here I record the 5 key observations from my most recent trip. I do sometimes wonder if India has always been this and it is only my perception that changes every…

Book Review — The Phoenix Project

Does an excellent job of telling why we need DevOps. And that’s it.

The ideal audience for this book is someone who wants to know the relevance of DevOps. Someone who has spent years and years in Dev or Ops, but can’t begin to comprehend this…

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Insightful, not necessarily engaging

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Industries Of The Future is a must-read for anyone who is curious about the bleeding edge changes occurring in…

Music is beautiful

I am not about to write about any -isms. I am not here to fight for any cause. But while most of the non-Islam world conceives and associates the phrase “Allahu Akbar” with only one thing, this is a refreshing take. Traditional Indian music meets Western Classical Music meets a hymn from Quran…

Is Trump a boon or a bane for Twitter?

No, I am not about to do Trump-bashing. But essentially, carrying the most polarized and most social media savvy President ought to have its downside.

On the plus side, Trump’s use of Twitter has given undoubted status to Twitter as the “new age media”, as a…

Why do we need credit cards?

By way of the credit card industry, we have a strong and mature system, where people can complete cashless transactions —…

College dropout?

Everywhere we hear about college dropouts and serial-failers who went on to become something. What about this gets people worked up so much?

Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were college dropouts doesn’t mean every college dropout — or even 10% of college dropouts, statistically…

Book Review — 1991

How PV Narasimha Rao made history

Economy and politics watchers fondly recall 1991 as a watershed year for India. This is the year India “opened up” their economy, this is the year we made a significant step towards abolishing license-quota-permit raj. But who was…