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Reading: All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

This book so far has been great read. In a nutshell:

“Successful marketers don’t talk about features or even benefits. Instead, they tell a story. A story we want to believe.”

All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin

Joel with Scoble: Podcast Interview

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Watch this interesting interview (edited version) of Joel Spolsky by Scoble.

New Year’s Resolution!

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Something I want to do in 2006 extensively is play sports. Tennis, Cycling and learn a few other new sports like snowboarding. Welcome 2006!

The Perfect Sunday

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

As a young entrepreneur it took me 5 years to learn this day called SUNDAY.

Sunday usually is my best day to do all low priority office work, spend an hour in shower only thinking what our next product could be, endlessly interview C++ developers, worry about the paper work which I still don’t want to do, hit ‘get mail’ icon 5 times every hour. I haven’t even taken out time for a hair cut since last 6 months (of course deliberately).
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It begins at home!

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Bangalore sure lacks the much needed infrastructure as Calvin points out. Everyone breaks rule to the extend your moral values support. If you see/talk more about the corrupt guys up there, see more and more of that dirt, you fall prey to it. The *change* is right in our heads. Here is some things that gives me kick:
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Honesty is my religion, I am God!

Tuesday, October 28th, 2003

Saturday evening, a little jolly at work, I was having a casual chat my colleagues. We often talk about Americans vs Indians (in IT business). And guess what I keep telling them, Americans are good, they make good products, and they are intelligent and so on. They keep protesting it and we have good debate. I don’t mean to prove Indians inferior. But hey! never underestimate anyone even u if know a good deal about them. Don’t generalize. Just learn from their strengths.
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SAVE: The Magic word

Tuesday, October 14th, 2003

I just finished watching a movie (along with my parents). At home.

‘Baghban’, when literally translated means the gardener, is the story of Raj Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan), his wife Pooja (Hema Malini) and their four sons. It portrays the apathy of youth towards their elders. It also teaches the importance of family, life and our culture. We all were very impressed and touched by the movie. Round of applause for the Big B. The movie actually reminded me of a conversation I had with my dad few months ago.
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