This is a great post from Tim Kastelle: Why New Ideas Can Be Bad which ties in with my blog post from last year: Too many people are ideating, not enough are executing.
This post is the first in a series of stories on selling.
This stories in this post are from the book Hope is not a strategy.
On targeting the pain point
Early in my sales career as an account manager, I was in the back of the room while one …
Here is a pet peeve of mine that is strong enough to actually wake up this blog from hibernation.
I've been seeing this "ideating" word being tossed around as the new cool thing. Every event now seems to have an ideation workshop or innovation workshop. We've been doing innovation jams …
I came across this interesting article on Pattern matching in Python. The article asks: Can we recreate in Python the pattern matching semantics present in languages like Haskell and Erlang.
For those not familiar with the way pattern matching works, I've copied the example from the article above.
%% handle(Path …
Understanding the Y Combinator - a function that takes a non-recursive function and makes it recursive. Written in Python after reading The Little Schemer book.
So a few of us are trying to get the startups in Chennai together. Towards that end, we decided to have a bunch of meetings in OpenCoffee format - http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/
Here's the blurb:
The Chennai OpenCoffee Club is a place for people involved in the startup ecosystem to …
Conflict. It's that word again. We have all faced it and most of us would rather not discuss it, but sooner or later you will be faced with such a situation and it's helpful to be able to understand it. In this article, I will discuss what I understand by …
Based on my experiences, my list would go like this -
Have empathy. This is the most important. Learn continuously. This is the second most important. Apart from these, you need
So I arrive at Paris CDG from Heathrow, disembark from the plane and enter the terminal. There is a sign saying "Baggages", so I follow that and come to an immigration desk. Immigration takes all of 20 seconds before I am in the baggage collection area.
Before me is baggage …
This article used to be 6 part series of articles on recursion that I had on my old blog. I have combined the series into a single article and posted it here. This article is still dated for the 12th of April, 2008, which is when I originally posted this …