Cycled to Anup Jain’s place and walked over to the airport from there, about 1.6 km away. The shortest walking route is through Sanjay Park and opens onto the Viman Nagar road. Took 26 minutes to reach and check in. Managed to lose my phone charging cable in the security check. The Air India flight … Read more

Ideas about Ideas Managers in companies are mole-hill men. A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will have his mountain finished even before lunch – … Read more

We started with participation introductions. There were 12 of us – with ages ranging from 12 to 75. Except for the 12 year old, who decided to make AI drawings on his dad’s phone for the second half of the session, toast master Abinash managed to keep his audience awake and involved. Abinash works with … Read more

This workshop was organised by EKF – Existential Knowledge Foundation (http://existentialknowledgefoundation.org) at BAIF, Warje, Pune. They were about 20 participants. We started with introductions. What I liked about the training program was the absence of chairs. And the presence of young children. On the mattresses, you could sleep through the sessions, and it was perfectly … Read more

Narsi, my batchmate from IIMC, was the joint organiser of Everex, an EV exhibition. I landed up at his invitation and had a good time there. The venue of Everex was the Hitex Exhibition Centre in Hitech City. By the way, this was also the venue of the Entrepreneurship Summit, which had Ivanka Trump as … Read more

Each One, Teach One What is the ideal student-teacher ratio? Are you happy with the 30:1 that we have at Bulls Eye? Or should be closer to 10:1? My ideal is 1:1. It implies that I am customizing learning for an individual student. Can we achieve this ratio at Bulls Eye? Sustainably? I will chat … Read more

Why do we sleep? Here is an interesting talk which tries to answer: http://www.ted.com/talks/russell_foster_why_do_we_sleep?language=en I am a person who wants my 8 hours of sleep. 6 hours is comfortable. 4 hours is doable. Anything less than 4 hours is tragedy. I remember taking over night buses not being able to sleep in them coming home … Read more

One of the central philosophies that Naren espouses is that all customers are not equal – and should not be treated equally. The profitable ones need to be pampered – and the non-profitable ones to be neglected. To start this process of iniquity, one needs to start with data.The data should help answer questions like … Read more

Reached the Auroville ECR junction – and decided to follow instructions in the welcome mail related to hitchhiking. Every two wheeler seemed to be carrying three people – so started walking. As the evening progressed, and I had only walked 3 km, was not sure if I would finish the 8 km before nightfall. So … Read more