Year: 2009
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The Black Swan – The impact of the highly improbable (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
It is hard to keep this book in any one category, particularly so when the author is a philosopher, a literary essayist and most interestingly a quant trader. The message of this book is the futility of creating complex mathematical models (and in believing them) to forecast future events. The real life is too complex…
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Google's Portal for India elections
The single minded vision of Google is to democratize the information in the world. Every person on this earth should have access to all available public information, no matter where they are. What better way to prove this than this Google initiative in the largest democracy in the world, India. Google search page for Indian…
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Japan's lost decade
Japan’s economy, stagnant for 16 years, is facing challenges quite different than those from US and Europe. There is no housing bubble or credit crunch in Japan. After a decade of stagnant and deflation ridden 90’s, Japan’s economy started improving in early 2003. But this time the industry has wrongly bet that the Yen will…
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iPhone in India
iPhone, a craze here in US, doesn’t seem to be doing well in India, one of the fastest growing cellular markets in the world. Apple did not seem to have done their homework in understanding the local tastes of the consumer before getting in to the market. – India is a pre-paid cell phone market…
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Tools for mind mapping
Although the mind mapping techniques have been around for 30 years I have not heard much about their effectiveness in knowledge assimilation. But I watched my colleagues using it often (especially in trainings). If anything, the technique forces you to organize the information in a logical order from one word. The visual presentation with a…