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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Nov 21, 2017

What’s Crisp? Pringles, autumn mornings, and now, Tenreads.

There are two kinds of people who can…

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Jan 11, 2017

You have some bad news.

You hate reading the news. Don’t get me wrong, you love keeping up with the world. But, you hate reading the news…

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Mar 9, 2015

What the world’s most powerful man reads.

This is the first of a series of ten stories that tries to imagine what the men and women who shape the world we live in, would read if they used Tenreads.

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Mar 4, 2015

We Hate Click Baits. You Won’t Believe Why.

Hello, fish-that-took-the-bait. Welcome to the Internet.

You clicked on this link for a simple reason — we told you that we hate click-baits, but we didn’t tell you why, and that is slowly eating away at ya — like a dollop of…

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Jul 7, 2014

We hate this feature, and we hope you’ll never use it.

Unsubscriptions. Ugh.

In the world of emails, this is the second most loathed phenomenon after spam reporting.

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Jul 5, 2014

Identity: #MadrasMade

As you probably are aware, we are redoing the entire user interface of Tenreads and making it really slick and sexy. As I was playing around with Sketch artboards on my Mac and sculpting in or snipping out elements, I decided to make a Paytm style “Proudly made in India” label at the…

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Jun 11, 2014

100,000 stories.

This has been a momentous week for us, at Tenreads. From launching the beta last month, we have processed more than one hundred thousand stories. Six digits, yes, you read that right. We are now pulling data from over 700 sources on the web across 54 categories. From these 100,000 stories, we have…

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Mar 11, 2015

The making of a genius.

My friend, Amy, is a genius. Most conversations with her usually end up with me desperately playing catch up as she deftly deals me one cool information after the other.

Just last week, Amy opened a conversation about how Bitcoin is revolutionizing currency as…

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
May 8, 2014

JavaScript Jedi Wanted at Tenreads

Tenreads is a product being built by the team at Likewyss.

Likewyss is an angel-backed startup based out of Chennai, that aims at creating a delightful content discovery experience on the Internet. We’re currently a team of 5. We are looking…

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Gokul Nath Sridhar
Feb 9, 2015

Why we exist.

“Information overload is a symptom of our inability to focus on what’s truly important or relevant to who we are as individuals, professionals, and as human beings.” — Brian Solis.

Dealing with an overload of information can apparently drop your IQ by ten points — twice as much…

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