Browsing Posts of 'Arvind'
If you want to do just one thing in your quest for fitness, it should be eating right. Whether you are training for a marathon, working out 6 times a week or just being a lazy ass, eating right can improve the quality of what you are doing by a significant margin. For part 1, [...]
Read more...First, a background I was never the fastest, strongest or fittest in my group of friends in high school. I was pretty good at sports while growing up but I was severely limiting myself due to the state of my body. But as a kid of 15 or so, I really did not know better. [...]
Read more...nthID Networks was my first job after grad school. I joined this little startup based in Milpitas, Singapore and India as part of the core team, as the lead interaction designer (yep!). The product we were working on attempted to rethink the one-identity nature of today’s online conversations and interactions by enabling people to manage all facets [...]
Read more...Am not really one for resolutions. But then, every year, I feel I should do a few things and then the year goes by. So, this time around, am going to put this out in a public forum and hopefully that will spur me on to do these things. Here they are, in no specific [...]
Read more...About two summers ago, I blogged that United needed to buy Ribery. Instead, we ended up buying Nani. I never understood the logic of that. Coz they both ended up costing approximately the same amount. But on one hand, you had the finished article in Ribery. On the other, you had potential – another Ronaldo [...]
Read more...One thing about the US is that land conservation and national parks are taken seriously. The amount of green within a city is pretty high. Growing up in Madras, finding an open spot to play is one of the biggest ordeals. I was lucky I grew up in an apartment complex with a ground in [...]
Read more...I recently watched this video – The Story of Stuff (YouTube link) – and while it did not say anything that I did not know already, it did jolt my memory and remind me that while I might know things, I have proceeded to forget them as well. In grad school, I became very interested [...]
Read more...We, at ScoreMore, are looking for one or possibly two grade-A developers. What is ScoreMore? ScoreMore is a new educational platform, with an initial focus on GMAT/GRE preparation. In an existing market, we are aiming to differentiate by being an adaptive and tailored platform based on each individual, and also giving access to a large [...]
Read more...I finally registered for the conference, to be held in Savannah, GA next February. Also registered for Indi Young’s workshop on Mental Models (was split between this and Dan Saffer’s), along with Steve Portigal’s workshop. The choices for workshops are great, I was confused about which ones to attend. Dan Saffer, Raphael Grignani and Will [...]
Read more...Yesterday, I was lucky to listen to Suzi Eszterhas talk about her experiences and how she got into photography. Some of the things she mentioned were pretty eye-opening. The dedication of photographers is something a lot of us are aware of and are in awe of (have you not seen the ‘Planet Earth’ series?!). Still [...]
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