Maybe the best thing about academic competitions is that they benefit both Warriors and Worriers equally. The Warriors get the thrilling intensity their minds are suited for, where they can shine. The Worriers get the gradual stress inoculation they need, so that one day they can do more than just tolerate stress — they can […]
Read Dan Lyons brilliant article Let’s All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can’t Raise Any More Money on ReadWriteWeb Excerpts: Startup Ecosystems It’s wannabe journalists writing about wannabe investors giving money to wannabe entrepreneurs and everyone in the circle jerk believing that the whole thing makes perfect sense because, trust us. On the bubble […]
Blogging platform Posterous has announced via its company blog that it will be shutting down as of April 30th. The company was acquired by Twitter just under a year ago. Move to Tumblr or WordPress!
Elmore Leonard is the man. Look at these lines from his books. “A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.” – Valdez Is Coming “It doesn’t have to make sense, […]
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny…the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language resonating in the self, is not the world’s time, but the soul’s. The energies that otherwise tend to stream outward […]
Fast Company publishes the most innovative companies in the world list every year. This year Vaatsalya is on the India list!
A Palliative care nurse in Australia compiled regrets of terminally ill patients. From her site My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their […]
A Palliative care nurse in Australia compiled regrets of terminally ill patients. From her site My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their […]
Prof Zollo at MIT worked with a group of scientists to analyse differences between entrepreneurs and manager’s brains. Turns out some parts of the brain is wired differently. More from their site [Also read my earlier post on Amateurs vs Professionals ] In our study, we used an fMRI to map brain activity in 25 entrepreneurs […]