Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You… | Continue reading
“A lot of Silicon Valley firms — Amazon, Google, Facebook — they really are conglomerates. And yet at some level you can see what the coherence is. Industrial conglomerates don’t have a… | Continue reading
Last night, the Long Now folks hosted a talk with my dear friend Chris Michel, a photographer who has immense empathy and appreciation for nature. I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said that he has b… | Continue reading
Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You… | Continue reading
Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You… | Continue reading
A few days ago I met Chris Michel for coffee. It is our semi-regular monthly catch up to discuss life, photography and occasionally, technology. Often we meet in one of the coffee shops – Blu… | Continue reading
These are some of the stories, essays and blog posts I have read today. This list is updated multiple times a day, so be sure to comeback often. The latest one is on top. Sign-up for my email newsl… | Continue reading
Images captured by a Japanese weather satellite, Himawari-8 were stitched together into a time-lapse, which turns 24 hours into 12 seconds. You can see the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of … | Continue reading
iPhone XS Max. Leica M-A with a Leica f2/50mm Summicron. Nikon D850 along with Nikon f 2.8 24-70 and Nikon 2.8 70-200 lenses. I had initially planned to bring along a Leica TL2 with an f1.4/50mm (e… | Continue reading
Photography oriented trips are a visual Marathon. You are always on the move; your eyes are still looking, scanning, cataloging and telling your brain what a photo worth making is. I usually drive … | Continue reading
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. Thanks for leaving a legacy and the gift of your writings. In his 1995 book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, noted writer, astronomer and philo… | Continue reading
When companies want to send me their products, I mostly say no. I am not a reviewer — never have been. I say yes, only when I can incorporate these products into my daily flow and use them wi… | Continue reading
As a diabetic, I like to torture myself by watching the episodes of The Great British Bake Off — I do so by turning away the iPad screen and just listening to the soundtrack of words, music and wis… | Continue reading
It is not fun to wake up and learn that a firmware update killed your network attached storage. Looks like that is what happened to my QNAP. It is in an infinite loop of trying to boot. Of course, … | Continue reading
The New York Times has been a pointy edge of the coverage on Facebook, Google and Big Tech domination of our daily lives. They have often presented (relentless) wonderful reporting only to counterb… | Continue reading
When I went to sleep last night, I was excited about the prospects of the new day. I had no idea that it would turn out to be one of those red letter days that teach you pretty much everything abou… | Continue reading
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a heartfelt eulogy for his co-founder, Paul Allen, who passed away (earlier this month.) The eulogy has since been reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and The… | Continue reading
While visiting my parents in India, I decided to take a little break and visit Ladakh for a short photography break. When I was growing up, Ladakh was such a remote location, and the idea of going … | Continue reading
For almost seven days, I have not had an internet connection. My phone has been silent and there has been no television anywhere. I don’t know what our president is saying, and the only newspapers … | Continue reading
Last night, the tech-twitter was lit-up by the shocking news that Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have put in their papers and are leaving the company that bought them for a bi… | Continue reading
iPhoneXsMax — When I heard the name and saw it up on the stage, I shuddered. Apple’s name for its newest, biggest iPhone made one Microserf quip on Twitter: “And I thought we sucked at naming… | Continue reading
Like everyone else, I watched the Washington Social Media circus with interest. A lot of words were used. Crocodile tears shed. Promises made. Bouquets of derision thrown. But no one actually said … | Continue reading
The last month in the life of Tesla and its mercurial chief executive can best be described as a bungee jump from a plane. No surprise, that we have a bull market in opinions about Elon Musk, his b… | Continue reading
Microsoft is once again redesigning Skype — in order to make Skype great again. Or as a Microsoft executive puts it too “focus on simplicity* to provide an overall better experience for you by maki… | Continue reading
On September 12, as far as Facebook is concerned I won’t exist. Yesterday, I permanently deleted my Facebook account. I let go of 300,000 followers, 1200 friends and the blue seal of authenticity. … | Continue reading
On September 12, as far as Facebook is concerned I won’t exist. Yesterday, I permanently deleted my Facebook account. I let go of 300,000 followers, 1200 friends and the blue seal of authenticity. … | Continue reading
I don’t know why, but I like cold, desolate places. I like snow, ice and learning how humans survive in these tundra-like conditions. And that is why I was watching The Last Trapper, a documentary … | Continue reading
I can still remember it clear as day. It was almost eight years ago, over coffee with photographer Trey Ratcliff (a pioneer of HDR photography) where I theorized about hyper-personalization and how… | Continue reading
The New York Times notes that big-money rounds are becoming all too routine in Techlandia, which has led some to wonder: what is the cause of this seemingly irrational exuberance? Valuation, in the… | Continue reading
Did you notice that I had gone missing for a few days? Exactly 10 days to be specific! In case you were wondering, I decided to take some downtime to work on a specific problem — a continuous… | Continue reading
About ten days ago I caught up with Elad Gil, a Silicon Valley veteran who has written a new book, High Growth Handbook. Even halfway through the book, and I can already tell this is a book that is… | Continue reading
Since the ancient Egyptians and their sundials, we humans have been fascinated with the idea of measuring “time”. And our reasons for measuring time often inform the design of tools we use to track… | Continue reading
Do you remember what happened at the start of this week? Me neither! The news is flowing so fast these days, that you can’t really figure out what’s really happening. And that is why misinformation… | Continue reading
Back in the day, when Silicon Valley was about silicon and technology, our industry elders used to wisely caution that Silicon Valley doesn’t invest in tobacco, alcohol, porn, and guns. Not anymore… | Continue reading
Not a month goes by when we hear about another snafu or scandal about Facebook and Uber. And each time I wonder if they will change. It seems both these companies are genetically pre-programmed to … | Continue reading
Just about 12 years ago, at a costume party hosted by Ruby Red Labs in the SOMA district of San Francisco, I got a chance to talk to one of the now-forgotten founders of Twitter, Noah Glass. He sho… | Continue reading
As you know, there is no love lost between Facebook and me over its constant abuse of our privacy. You also know, how I feel about the disingenuous nature of its comments and policies. So perhaps i… | Continue reading
…the current global power consumption for the servers that run bitcoin’s software is a minimum of 2.55 gigawatts (GW), which amounts to energy consumption of 22 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year—… | Continue reading
When it comes to men’s tennis, there is no one better, cooler and nicer than Roger Federer. A man of an insatiable appetite for winning (with a smile) and lover of beautiful watches, hit a fierce b… | Continue reading
Apple’s App Store turned 10. If you remember Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve Jobs, then you would remember Steve wasn’t a fan of the idea of an app store. An enthusiast community … | Continue reading
Buzzfeed is reporting that one single contributor who wrote 700 articles for Forbes and 300 for Entrepreneur magazine, has been charging brands to mention their names in his articles. It is yet ano… | Continue reading
Fox Business News is beating the crap out of CNBC. In 2Q 2018, Bartiromo’s Mornings led Squawk Box among total viewers, 109,000 to 104,000 FBN grew … beating CNBC by 23% (203,000 total … | Continue reading
Buzzfeed is reporting that one single contributor who wrote 700 articles for Forbes and 300 for Entrepreneur magazine, has been charging brands to mention their names in his articles. It is yet ano… | Continue reading
Silicon Valley’s recruiting pitch has long been: Work with us to change the world. Employees are encouraged to make their work life synonymous with their social identity, and many internalize those… | Continue reading
Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times: “From four years of teaching at Harvard, so many of my students are interested in journalism, but they mostly want to write first-person, highly … | Continue reading
Politics, business, technology, innovation… past always tries to hold down the future. Every time I read an article about Brexit, dismissal of Tesla, or new ideas, it all boils down to our do… | Continue reading
I have always been fascinated by QVC and Home Shopping Network (HSN), and how effective they are in moving product and reshaping inventory. It is no surprise that those two are central to one of my… | Continue reading
I have had a few days to think about Microsoft’s decision to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion and I am increasingly convinced that this is a good deal for Microsoft, as long as they don’t pull the same … | Continue reading