Inspiring Note to New Hires on 1st Day at Apple

There’s work and there’s your life’s work. The kind of work that has your fingerprints all over it. The kind of work that you would never compromise on. That you would sacrifice a weekend for. You can do that kind of work at Apple. People don’t come here to play it safe. The come here [...]

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Lessons from Building 20 at MIT

(via New Yorker) Jonah Lehrer analyzes groupthink, brainstorming and conversations as the genesis of new ideas. Building 20, though, ranks as one of the most creative environments of all time, a space with an almost uncanny ability to extract the best from people. Among M.I.T. people, it was referred to as “the magical incubator.” The [...]

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10 Events / Decisions that decelerated India

If Maulana Azad had become Congress president for a third term, partition could have been avoided. If Gandhi had gone with the majority view that Sardar Patel be made the first Prime Minister of India. Voting should have been made compulsory in our constitution. India should have implemented the common civil code, where the same [...]

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Steve Job’s Advice to Obama on Fixing American Education System

  Just finished Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson. On page 544, last para, he advises Obama in his typical no hold back mode. Jobs attacked America’s education system, saying that it was hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was utmost no hope for education reform. [...]

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Lant Pritchett: India’s battle to educate the country

I bumped into Lant Pritchett’s interaction with Indian Express this week. Lant is the Faculty co-chair of the Master’s in Public Administration / International Development Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He discusses various issues with the Indian education system. His insight and observations are astute, profound and the heuristic for what needs [...]

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11 learnings from the Anna Movement

(via Osho Shiva and rediff)  great article on learnings and mantras from the Anna movement.  He talks about 11 mantras that one can take away from the movement. The article is in slide form, mantra by mantra, would like to index into each of them. Help consumers become free from corporate exploitation by providing them [...]

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Lessons via Travelling

There are a number of lessons in formal education. It is only when you travel, the exposure adds tadka to your education. Your knowledge converts to a complex compound some call wisdom. A great article first tweeted by Nikhil Kadadi, life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight, the author shares 29 [...]

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The Software Services Game is Over

On Jul 12th shortly after Infosys announced the first quarter results, my blog witnessed traffic 20 times the daily normal. The blogpost everyone wanted to read was “The Infosys Bubble” written about five years ago. The article was written just after the company had celebrated its silver jubilee and everyone was celebrating. Everyone believed that [...]

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The Silent National Anthem

The Silent National Anthem, an ad campaign that features deaf and mute children, singing the ‘Jana Gana Mana’ through sign language, won a silver at advertising’s highest awards – Cannes Lion 2011.

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Advice from Senior Recruiters

Rise in the Wee Hours Every successful person since the advent of opposable thumbs has risen at the crack of dawn. Set your alarm and get moving. — Mark Jaffe, Wyatt & Jaffe Get with the Gratitude Thank-you notes are a must. E-mail is fine, but be specific as to what excited you about the [...]

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