Diffusion of authority Authority comes From Knowledge Printing press help spread knowledge breaking through traditional barriers. Force Money In traditional world authority sources were distinct. Anyone in europe could acquire...
The great divide between traditional and modern world. The rate of population growth Malthusian trap Finite number of stuff produced. Population increases, less food available, population drops. The global Europe....
What is machine learning? Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect...
When preparing for a really important negotiation, put things in big picture perspective. How the outcome of this negotiation affect my personal, family, social, community life. Contract performance and evaluation...
Close: Create a contract Perspectives on contracts A contract is an agreement enforceable by law. Obtaining contracts is the main goal of a business. Sources of contract laws Common law...
Getting To Know The Other Side Understand negotiation style of other side. Very important in cross cultural negotiations. Conversation intelligence. Dont talk too much, so avoid your favorite topics. Ask...
Work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky is fascinating and has had lot of influence on the world. The behind the scenes story how their work and how they worked...
How to assess your negotiation style Plan for negotiation Should I negotiate? How do you feel about negotiating in this specific situation? What are the risks? (downside) Is reward after...
Vices in arguments Premises are false. The premise does not provide good reason for conclusion. Virtues in arguments Validity Soundness Deductive arguments The conclusion should follow from the premise. Is...
Argument markers Conclusion markers - so, thus, therefore, thus, accordingly, consequently etc. sentence after them is the conclusion. Reason markers - since, because, for, as, for the reason that etc....
As per my about page I am pursuing few goals from March 2019 to March 2020. Here is update for the first month 1. For the first time I completed...
Arguments are a way to gain an understanding of your reasons and beliefs. A way to express reasoning Set of reasons for a conclusion. Not verbal fights, abuse, complaints, disagreements....
As social media usages has increased, number of opinions and arguments we are exposed to on a daily basis has increased too. Hence I am taking a course to understand...
As I go through Learning: How To Learn, I have realised few things about procrastination and how I am affected by it. The cue or trigger My main trigger is...
Renaissance Learning and Unlocking Your Potential I “During learning process, your brain restructures understanding from time to time, causing you to temporarily find making progress quite difficult.” How to become...
Doing another course on how to negotiate. - Successful Negotiations Relevant Book - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OE85SDS This blog will host weekly notes from the course. I will update this post to links...
Procrastination and Memory Procrastination Brain zombies - automatic replies of brain to specific cues to make here and now better. We procrastinate about things we don’t like. Procrastination is similar...
What is chunk A way to unite bits of information through meaning. When you are focused on learning prefrontal cortex makes useful neural connections This doesn’t work as effectively under...
Procrastination Caused because brain perceives it as pain. Need to turn it to pleasure. Pomodoro technique Work intensely for 25 minutes with no distractions. Reward yourself after. Practice Math is...
Most important aspect for this next year for me is to learn new skills. As a first step, I am doing course - How To Learn Learning. This blog will...
In May 2014 I moved to Melbourne, Australia. This was never planned. A client was building out a tech team in Melbourne and it seemed like a good idea to...
Grow a ponytail and beard. Win an argument in Vim Vs Emacs. Achieve lifetime coding/hackthon attendence count: 3141 Selfie with dhh. Create at least three JavaScript frameworks. A custom bash...
Or How I used technology to simplify house search My fiancée and I are moving out of our current rental and looking for a new one in Melbourne. Finding houses...
I have lived and built (not so successfully) startup(s)[^n] from a small city, Nasik [^n], in India. Now when I look back on the journey, I think it was a...
I do not trust Indian ecommerce sites. Period. Whether it is freecharge or snapdeal or some other. And it is nothing to do with any previous issues with a particular...
I am glad to introduce you to my new venture that I will be launching soon. Problem: Big companies love meetings. They can not get enough of them. But they...
I have been smoking since I was 20, 12-13 years now. And I know lot of people who smoke. So here are my observation on trying to quit smoking. 1....
Today I was lucky enough to attend a session by Brett, who sits about 4 feets from me at the hub, on how to learn. He is a stunt performer...
Interview of Mr BS by yours truly (SB). [SB] Tell us a little bit about your journey so far. [BS] Well I graduated in summer of ‘13 from a second...
It was thunderstorm outside as he held her hand. May be it was just clouds surrounding his heart. And suddenly her grip went a little loose. He knew she is...
Many times we keep hearing that Indian startup ecosystem is non-existent and there are not many early adopters. Well we cant really change everything immediately, but there are simple things...
I have always used hobbies as one of the ways to find good programmers. Or programmers who can be easily coached. Specially when it comes to hiring fresh-graduates or interns....
It has been a while since I wrote a post. I moved to Pune exactly a year ago, from Nasik. A lot has happened in this year. Took up 3...
I attended Techsparks Pune event on Saturday, and here is brief review of the experience. Keynotes - Both JustDial and Quickheal are amazing stories. Both journeys are of real startups,...
When you grow up in India, you hear stories about great musicians, singers of the past. Even legends about them. How their singing can make it rain. When you hear...
Don’t blame the lord for troubles of the path. With no lord, there wont be a path. Don’t blame the night for darkness. With no night, there wont be stars....
To provide context - I was running a services company for 30 months. We worked on various kind of projects. Consumer facing e-commerce app, enterprise apps, financial services products, backend...
There are many forms of courage. One of the forms is to smile despite knowing that there is nothing you can do to prevent what is going to happen to...
Making money is easy. (1) I learned this after running a business for 3 years. Not a highly successful business. Not a million-dollar business (, yet). But just by taking...
The worst thing a person can do other person is neglect. You can be angry with some one and express it. You can hate some one and express it. You...
What we are is defined by how we use privileges given to us. Whether in personal life or in professional. We are entrusted with privileges thinking that we will make...
Destinations are quiet places where we want to reach in the end. Journey is what makes reaching there fun and enjoyable. Journeys are where we make friendships and forge relationships....
Most times we have best things heart and yet we are often perceived to be bad. As human race has evolved our minds are closing us into more and more...
Is your life based upon how others see you? How much bragging rights you have in group of people? Are you always tormented by inferiority complex about little things? Then...
Few times I have observed that people tend to barge into decision making process where there are not supposed to. One of such important domain in technology budget. Agreed that startups will...
Global warming or not, the city of Nasik which was till early 90’s (even late 90’s) was cool even in summers is experiencing very warm summers since last 2 years....
Many people have written lot of things about Apple and Steve Jobs and there policies. Adobe Vs Apple. HTC Vs Apple and Apple app store policies have got worst press...
Till about 10 days ago total amount I had spent over ecommerce website in India was = Rs 1,200 In last 10 days it is = Rs 10,000 . Change...
India became a country about 63 years ago. Before that there was no existence of the country. We embraced a democratic and unified government with a build up to it...
Now this blogpost is not related to topics I generally write about, but anyways. So some of the things that I would like twitter to do in 2010. 1. Ownership...