Is thinking by numbers the new way to be smart?
Most of the people who shop online are now used to the recommendations that they see on their page based on previous purchases. And this is not just purchases, recommendations for movies on Netflix is...
View ArticleA better India, A better world
I watched a few of N.R.Narayana Murthy’s (NRN) interviews on TV and knew that he is very articulate. He has the unique ability to be able to provide solutions to complex problems in a very concise and...
View ArticleThe Economics of Microfinance – a must read
Participating in the growth microfinance (even if it is not the commercial growth) is one thing, and knowing why one should do that is another. After all, one is bound to ask sooner or later, does this...
View ArticleStay hungry, Stay Foolish
The title of the book was possibly inspired by the famous Steve Jobs Stanford University speech. I would have like to see a little more creativity in the title, instead of an insipid verbatim copy of...
View ArticlePrime Obsession – definite read
OK first the review – go read the book – Prime Obsessionby John Derbyshire. ’nuff said. That is all, there is nothing else to say about this book – if you want to know more about the Riemann...
View ArticleSuperfreakonomics – soooper ?
OK, so the title is cheesy and that is intentional. At-least caught your eye didn’t it. So, what is it about? The rogue economists with a penchant for the uncanny, for making connections that will make...
View ArticleSocial Entrepreneurship – a good (but not great) book to read
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View ArticleLinked – an average read
A book about power laws and scale free networks. The book explains how various social and network phenomenon are all scale-free networks. That we are surrounded by the application of power laws....
View ArticleThe Silent World – an ok read
This book – The Silent World by Capt. Jacque Cousteau sort of reached me out of chance. And when I checked the title, I saw that this was a National Geographic Adventure classic – not the sort of a...
View ArticleHow to lie with Statistics – a good cheat-sheet to cheat with numbers
The moment someone mentions Statistics, the most often seen reaction is a big yawn or a sigh of disbelief. This is because mostly people would have heard this statistic in some ad / marketing journal...
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