One of my favorite authors and science popularizers is Michio Kaku. I love his books, lectures and interviews. He is a brilliant scientist and makes science accessible to everyone. He wrote many books on future of science, some of it approaching sci-fi and some of them philosophize about science. We’ve…

Stephen Wolfram is one of the pre-eminent scientists and one of my favorites. I’ve been following his work with fascination for a long time now. You can read about his prodigious childhood and his other achievements on his Wiki page (He wrote three books on particle physics by age 14)…

In 1995, I was working in an IT in India and when we got an internet connection to our office via a dial-up modem, I quickly started to spend all nights at my office to explore this amazing portal into the world. Knowledge on how the internet actually worked was…

When we read spy novels, some of the exploits of the spy agencies read like fantastic science fiction but the real-life spy stories sometimes top the novels. Just look at the recently covered story of Stuxnet virus and how USA and Israel fumbled the nuclear reactors of Iran. Using technology…

Now that Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg announced her separation from Facebook, an era comes to an end. She oversaw not only the growth of Facebook to its behemoth status, she presided over the assembling of one of the most intrusive, powerful and dangerous Ads machine in the world, that can…

Book Recommendation: Creativity Mihály Csikszentmihalyi (I know his name is a mouthful) is famous for his ‘Flow’ theory that discussed the psychology behind intense focus. The concept of ‘flow’ was even explored in the Pixar’s children movie Soul recently. Though his work on Flow made him a household name (as…

Startups are a fascinating subject for anyone. We’ve always had creative inventors, industry leaders, business empire builders and other rags-to-riches stories. Startups (Especially the new-age startups in the last 20 years or so, specifically technology startups) occupy a different class in the pantheon of business because of their speed and…

Today I want to introduce a classic by one of our generations greatest thinkers, Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman. I am sure many have read this, if not, please check it out. There’s some criticism on the length and dryness of the book. Also the latest research into behavioral economics…