I was pointed to this blog on myths by a student — Thera Barnett — in my class. Really nice myths by Ron Garrett. The first two are my favorites: Myth #1: A brilliant idea will make you rich. Reality:…
More is not (necessarily) better
Common belief is that more money is better. Most people are always trying to have more money because it can never hurt you — in fact common wisdom is that it always helps. In Jainism, the religion I was born…
Entrepreneurism Class
Today I start conducting Entrepreneurism class in our school. This will be my second year to conduct this class. First year turned out to be an interesting experiment. Based on comments from students, they enjoyed it and so did I.…
Seraja Updates: September 18, 2006
I was in Bangalore visiting Seraja team. It was a pleasure to see that finally we are at a point that most of the basic technology will be in place very soon. Now we have to focus on content – both…
Novel uses of cameraphones: diet
WSJ has a story that talks about an innovative and novel use of camera phones to control your diet. Two weeks ago, she signed up for Nutrax, a free online diet service that lets her use a camera phone to…