Diaspora

Dozen reasons to love 2015

While a lot of media spends energy on raising alarms, no one tells us much about what is good in the world. Here are some positive news from 2015.

1. Africa joins the race to eradicate polio

Connected car as your credit card $$

As you pull through the Starbucks drive-through, wouldn’t it be cool if you can pay by a simple…

Will product management be gratifying for you?

Who are product managers?

Many product managers stumble into becoming a product manager. You can get an engineering degree to become a good programmer, or an MBA to get into finance or marketing. But Product Management is a…

How can we use ‘Proof of work’ for Bitcoins more efficiently

In absence of a central governing body, individual users have to validate transactions in a distributed ledger system. However in order to validate a transaction, user’s machine has to execute a mathematically challenging…

Why you shouldn’t make a new year’s resolution

As the year draws to a close, there is a flury of articles discussing lessons learnt from 2016 and promises to be made for 2017. Not sure why the last 2 weeks of December is when we wake up to this notion, only to forget our resolutions as quickly…

My experiment of using mobile as a primary device

At a recent company conference I wanted to try and work as much as possible just using my mobile devices (iPhone and iPad). I wanted to test if consumer apps and work related apps can provide the experience we desire. i.e. Can I do most tasks…