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Bytes for Mar 1

March 1, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading

random thoughts on being an entrepreneur | @gapingvoid – Some of my favourites:
7. People buy your product because it helps fill in the narrative gaps in their lives.
5. In a world of over-supply and commodification, you are no longer paid to supply. You’re being paid to deliver something else. What [...]

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Through the lens – a six-year old’s view of the world!

November 11, 2009

Young minds through the lens of young eyes.
The day after coming back from TEDIndia I was catapulted back into work – preparing for a big presentation-workshop today, which was good. This was in Gurgaon, and I spent the evening in Delhi with my sister and her young 6 year old Zai, who is totally [...]

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The old, the not-so-old, and many facets of the new

August 31, 2009

I took this picture of Dhanaji Dongre, the farmer we visited during our Nokia Life Tools immersions, on my test N97 (which has a pretty cool camera but a lousy touch-screen esp. when compared to the iPhone). He is taking a picture of the crew on his own little camera phone, who in turn, are [...]

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Towards new constructs of success?

March 11, 2009

Rob Paterson asks “What is the Great Disruption” in response to Thomas Friedman’s editorial.

Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole [...]

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Imagination, intuition … and small steps?

March 7, 2009

Interesting thought from Euan and all the folks who’ve left comments at his post. Quoting, almost in full:
One of the challenges for those of us who believe that we are at the beginning of a very significant period of change in how we see ourselves, our societies and our businesses is how to imagine [...]

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