I bought book title “Folk Culture of Tibet”, I am done finishing first few sections which mentions about known superstitions prevalent tibetan culture, some of these seems similar to hinduism. I am adding some of the crazy/funny/interesting ones here : 1. …
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#Faces : Ordinary people with extraordinary efforts.
Before I begin, credit for this goes to my friend Jugal Mody It was his suggestion while i am traveling i should make notes about interesting people i meet in my overall trip. During this 20 days trip I met …
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2014 passed, 2015 welcome!!
Happy New Year to everyone to start with. Year 2014 been amazing in following ways : 1. Joined The New Stack, working on building community & writing occasionally. 2. Sister got married to one of the smartest kid I have met so far in 20+ odd years of my life. 3. Moved to Bangalore after …
Contributing to Open Source
Searching “contributing to open source” throws About 30,100,000 results (0.56 seconds) Now the real question is being an Open Source evangelist, what/how should one proceed when talking about same? I am still from Old school & believe contribution to Open Source comes from inside hence: 1. Telling someone to use Open Source because its virus free …
On building a tech community
I have been asked several times about community building. For a start, the following points form the basis for any tech community. Passionate Leader: To build a good community it is essential to have a passionate leader with strong temperament. The leader must be duly motivated, ready to accept suggestions and advise accordingly. The leader …
Why startups abort?
Product market fit: Let’s say you have built an e-commerce product targeting the local market but it has limited internet penetration & online banking close to 0%. What happens to your product? It becomes restricted and misfit in the market you are targeting. Uber changed its payment policy in India because less than 10% of …
information overflow
We are in age of information overflow. Everything is just click of a button for us i.e pizza/taxi/grocery. It has done wonders for us but at same time it has bought lots of noise which can distract you to new high. 1. Paid Opinions: It is too easy for a firm to get our opinion …
How to Start a Startup note #5
Today I spent listing to Paul Graham in the how to start a startup series lecture. Paul is fucking awesome, full of fun, honesty & blunt in giving an opinion. We need more such motivators in our startup ecosystem. My notes from his lecture: Listen to your intuition Work with people whom you respect and have known long …
How to Start a Startup note #4
Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder by Reid Hoffman My notes for his class: Network network network. VC always tends to invest in company with co-founders as they compliment each other. Right place to start a right business like finance related startup makes …
It is good to be naked
Past few months been great. I met few amazing people and Twitter got me my life coach Kamal Ravikant & James Altucher. I am writing about being naked, what do I mean by that? 1. Please be as you are. 2. Do not pretend to be someone. 3. Feel inner peace not materialistic one. …