The Trouble With Civilization
I refer not to the concept, but the bestselling game series. The premise of Civilization is simple. You’re the leader of a civilization (a tribe or a nationality). You start out in 4000 BC with only a...
View ArticleThe Other Retail Story
My last long post was on retail as a barometer of reform. On the subject of retail, Neelakantan also has some very good posts up (here, here, here, and here), most of which deal with Reliance Retail....
View ArticleInnovation in the Third World
This Boston Globe oped (free registration might be required) is astonishing. The author, somebody named Jeremy Kahn, has violated the Sominism-cheat-sheet and Neelakantan’s guide to writing about India...
View ArticleLinkbunch Are Strong!
I’ve been looking for a Firefox extension that let’s me bookmark a collection of links into one bundle, which I can then open any time later – like a session manager which saves multiple sessions...
View ArticleSoftware Development Models and Weddings
In comments, BJ says that he has a fair idea of why I think TamBrahm weddings are like ERP implementations, and asks me to confirm his suspicions with a post on this. I don’t know if he is zinking what...
View ArticleHow to Read Interesting Links on Twitter on Kindle Later
I tweeted earlier this morning about automatically sending interesting links I find on twitter to my Kindle. Since two people (@saffrontrail and @_a_muse) asked me how this was done, and it won’t fit...
View ArticleDamn Hoverboards, I Have Bluetooth!
I’ve been thinking about the future recently. What got me started was the news that Total Recall is getting a reboot. I mused that at least it was a reboot that was coming much longer after the...
View ArticleGoogle Gali View
I came across two different news stories about Google’s mapping initatives recently. (Hat tip to Udhay Shankar for at least one of them.) First up, there’s this long New York Times profile on the...
View ArticleOn Annotating Your ebooks
For almost a week, the people I follow (and the ones whom the algorithm shows me anyway) on Twitter have been polarised about this tweet: I'd pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights,...
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