Recently, I finished reading “Outliers“ by Malcolm Gladwell. Though I’m not a big fan of the author, somehow in this book, Malcolm made his subject compelling for me to read.
Malcolm says if you want to be world class at doing something, you have to spend 10,000 hours on it.
Malcolm gives multiple examples to prove [...]
Today marks two years since I quit my job to start CodeLathe.. See my post 2 years back and our announcing Tonido post 1 year back for a trip down nostalgia lane. Happy to be still around and going strong!
But here’s to clarify something that various people have asked questions about, the meaning of the [...]
A New Year 2010.
New Challenges, New Goals and a Fresh start. Every one dreams of wiping all the imperfect years off the slate and starting of new.
One of the things everyone wants to do is draw up a bunch of things that they want to get done and want it out of their way. It [...]
It is almost 2 years (Jan 2008) since I quit my job to start CodeLathe and got the team together to build Tonido. It has been an incredible roller coaster ride since then for us with more highs than lows. I wouldn’t claim there were no lows, but the lows always made us appreciate the [...]
Usually at the start of a new year, various tech pundits take out their crystal globe and after peering at it for a while will come out with their predictions for the future. Here’s mine.
If you have been following many of my blog posts, it probably comes as no surprise to you that my opinion [...]
Marvell makes the ARM chips that powers the TonidoPlug and they hosted a Marvell India Technology Day (MITD) event at Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore, India, on November 10, 2009. Since I was visiting India at that time, I was able to attend this event and also gave a talk at the Open Source Plug Computing [...]
Summary: At an inflection point, need for efficiency will overtake need for power. In the past, industries eg. weapons and auto have reached such an inflection point. Computing is approaching such an inflection point. Once we hit such an inflection point, light devices such net books, cell phones and light devices will be more popular [...]
GeoCities holds a special place in my heart. I first created my first web page at GeoCities back in 1997 (remnants if which still exist today), existing for about 12 years.
…12 years is an eternity in Internet time.
I still remember how cool GeoCities used to be with all the different neighborhoods and the graphics and [...]
