Tech twitter, for the last week, has been inundated with unending debate on this tweetstorm by a VC about “10X engineers”. The tweetstorm was engineered by Shekhar Kirani, a Partner at Accel Partners. I have friends and twitter-followees on both sides of the debate. There isn’t much to describe more about the “paksh” side of…
Single Malt Recommendation App
Life is too short to drink whisky you don’t like. How often have you found yourself in a duty free shop in an airport, wondering which whisky to take back home? Unless you are a pro at this already, you might want something you haven’t tried before, but don’t want to end up buying something…
Beer and diapers: Netflix edition
When we started using Netflix last May, we created three personas for the three of us in the family – “Karthik”, “Priyanka” and “Berry”. At that time we didn’t realise that there was already a pre-created “kids” (subsequently renamed “children” – don’t know why that happened) persona there. So while Priyanka and I mostly use…
More on interactive graphics
So for a while now I’ve been building this cricket visualisation thingy. Basically it’s what I think is a pseudo-innovative way of describing a cricket match, by showing how the game ebbs and flows, and marking off the key events. Here’s a sample, from the ongoing game between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders.…
More issues with Slack
A long time back I’d written about how Slack in some ways was like the old DBabble messaging and discussion group platform, except for one small difference – Slack didn’t have threaded conversations which meant that it was only possible to hold one thread of thought in a channel, significantly limiting discussion. Since then, Slack…
The problem with Slack, and why it’s inferior to DBabble
When two of the organisations I’m associated with introduced me to the chatting app Slack, it reminded me of the chatting app DBabble (known to us in IIMB as BRacket) that was popular back when I was in college. There were two primary reasons because of which Slack reminded me of DBabble. The first was the presence of…
LinkedIn recos
LinkedIn in general is a useful site. It’s a good place to maintain an “online CV” and also track the careers of your peers and ex-peers and people you are interested in and people you are jealous of. If you are a headhunter, it is a good place to find heads to hunt, so that…
The Trouble with Orkut
Some of you might have noticed that I haven’t been replying to your messages on orkut any more. I still exist there, but am not “active” by any stretch of imagination. I check my account once in a long while, when I’m feeling really bored. And make a conscious decision not to reply to scraps…