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Remembering Asheem…

I still remember how I felt when I read about Asheem’s death last December. What a loss! Sometimes words cannot explain the feeling. Here are some videos:
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Santa Claus, Coca-Cola

Take one: Coke lore Take Two: Snopes: Clause that refreshes
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Book smart and sidewalk stupid– take two

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Protected: information asymmetry and retail

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Addendum to the previous post

I just read this– http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/googles-bid-for-groupon-is-seen-as-a-bargain/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a26 Peace.
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We live in interesting times

Some wise person said, may you live in interesting times (was that a Chinese saying or curse? I don’t remember whether it was a curse). Well, when I was young, I used to think that most of the interesting things or stuff have already been invented, discovered, and/or improved and the world is not so [...]
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Cool unix trick

I learned about this one from F. Ryan Johnson’s page here- http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ryanjohn/linux-hacks.html : Bash shell command:  !$ Say, before changing the directory, I check the contents: ll /random_directory/version21/configFiles/current and then I wan to change to that directory. Instead of cd /random_directory/version21/configFiles/current I can use: cd !$ This does  cd /random_directory/version21/configFiles/current. So bash replaces !$ with [...]
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Our brand is crisis

That’s the name of this interesting documentary. What do you want? Strategy? check Marketing? check Drama? check Politics? check high profile consultants? check dreams, free-markets, capitalism- chcek, check. I recommend this one.
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Did anyone read this amazing book?

This is not a new book; not too old either. And definitely not unknown. There are about 100 reviews (one less to be exact, at the time I checked) of this book on Amazon. I first came to know about the book, like many people, from Michael Lewis. But this looks a lot more interesting [...]
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