When 1 in 3 [http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/551998] humans are affected by a disease, it needs attention and help from all corners. There are many types of cancers, so it’s hard to say if we’ll ever be able to completely cure cancer. But prevention, early detection…
Ever insightful, Paul Graham, recently wrote about Schlep Blindness [http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html], a phenomenon related to overlooking hard and unpleasant problems: > Why work on problems few care much about and no one will pay for, when you could fix one of the most important components of the…
Over the past few decades, Computer programming has ignited gallons of technological innovation, disrupting one industry after the other. For as long, programming has been a skilled task, a niche profession, art of sorts [https://www.nilkanth.com/2010/03/22/why-writing-software-is-like-engineering/] too. It has also made good programmers [https:…
Italian-American jazz guitarist Joe Pass [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pass] once said: > If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards. I’ve been thinking about it for a while and its, almost lyrical, resemblence to life touched me. Any failure…
Compulsive, disillusioned, aloof at times, hooked on to new ideas [https://www.nilkanth.com/2009/07/09/selling-fake-wishbones/], craving for the next shot. In the dark depths of “The Valley”, they sniff on domain names. Despite suffering from a distortion in perceptions of time and space, there’s nothing quite…
[http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html] > Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just…
In between high school and university, I sold my first commercial software, a billing application I wrote back then in Pascal for a banquet organizer in the neighbourhood. Those were probably the most satisfying $10 I had earned. It taught the programmer in me some simple yet invaluable lessons in…
“Do feelings of deprivation drive entrepreneurs and economies?,” asks Rosabeth Moss Kanter [http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2010/11/mark-zuckerberg-and-misery-as.html], a professor at Harvard Business School. After watching ‘The Social Network [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/]‘ one evening this week, I was left with feelings of inspiration and…