Remote-First versus Outsourcing

There are enough posts out there which talk about how to succeed in outsourcing. There are also enough posts which speak about how to succeed with a remote team. What tends to happen though is that often the two are not correlated correctly. So “Outsourcing” gets treated…

A Bottom-up Framework to Understand Messaging Applications

The contribution of Messaging in the rapid proliferation of Internet usage & its adoption cannot be understated. Messaging has helped convert a Wikipedia-model (i.e. information-based) internet to a messaging-model…

Predicting Google’s Phone Ambitions

This is a fairly long post. To make it easier reading, it has been divided into three parts

I.) Introduction: This highlights the existing motivations for Google to build its own phone

Decisions

With apologies to the redoubtable work of Frost,

When we think of decisions, we tend to think as there being only one right one leading to the one right path. The finality of the decision seems to have a bearing on the finality on the outcome.

What would Shivaji do

Dear all pro Rs. 36000000000 statue people,

Considering you have decided to take a huge step in the name of Shivaji, it might be best to think if he would have approved of the Rs.3600 crore (budget so far) statue to honour him.