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revisiting Harsha Bhogle’s IIMA talk

By Vedanth | Published: October 27, 2010
It has been more than 2 years I first watched this video. In fact, I had forgotten about it until I saw a 3 minute version (shall we call it video for the twitter generation? Ohh, come on, don’t be so judgemental about me. I mean, nobody watches a 1 hour 15 minute video on [...]
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Lessons from Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, part-1

By Vedanth | Published: September 3, 2010
I will not talk about Kurosawa or Seven Samurai, at least not in this post. Here’s the meat: This is the nature of war. By protecting others, you save yourselves.
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Best implementation of unsubscribe page

By Vedanth | Published: August 6, 2010
It is difficult to come up with absolutely accurate headlines. What I mean here is, of course, something about the best implementation of unsubscribe page that I’ve come across. So, it’s hugely relative and based on my sensibilities (well, I think all the bests and worst are always subjective). Coming back to the topic, here [...]
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One more Robert Sapolsky video

By Vedanth | Published: July 31, 2010
The title is “The Uniqueness of Humans”. Youtube: TED version: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_humans.html
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Michael Lewis

By Vedanth | Published: July 28, 2010
Leave the subprimes, CDOs, Lehmans, AIGs all aside. Leave the story aside, too. Check this. If this doesn’t make you sit up and notice, I don’t know what else will: Eisman had a curious way of listening; he didn’t so much listen to what you were saying as subcontract to some remote region of his [...]
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For people who go gaga about Apple’s business model for phone

By Vedanth | Published: July 28, 2010
I am sure you haven’t read the NTT-DoCoMo case.
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Remembering an old Sufi Rock favorite

By Vedanth | Published: July 28, 2010
I distinctly remember this moment. I was eagerly waiting for the top song on the MTV India Top 20 show (I think I got the name right, or it is MTV top 20), while Nikhil Chinnappa was busy selecting his favourite person who “challenged the force of gravity on human body”. I knew it would [...]
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And Fred Madison(Bill Pullman) said

By Vedanth | Published: July 10, 2010
“I like to remember things my own way… How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.”
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Generating TED talks

By Vedanth | Published: May 14, 2010
The easiest way is– http://get-tedpad.com/tedpad-white.html I generated the following using combinations of coffee, brain, you, and happiness — “You can’t say that of the United States. It’s hard for the brain to be creative all of a sudden. It’s like a weekend in Rome that’s full of coffee sponsored for by the administration of the [...]
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Abbas Kiarostami’s music

By Vedanth | Published: May 14, 2010
Did I mean the music in Abbas Kiarostami’s movies? Hmm, yeah. I have watched “The Taste of Cherry” and “Ten”. So, I’m not an authority on Kiarostami’s movies. These are some of the least emotionally manipulative movies I have seen till date. I guess I have to explain. Kiarostami believes that he is there to [...]
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