Picking up a book to completion doesn’t work for me. I abandon a lot more than I manage to complete. Reasons for completing a book basically fall into three categories: I had to complete it due to reasons beyond my control (compulsory read), complete it to re-read it again (reading…

Yes, you heard that title right. And No, I am no Jack Dorsey to net in millions on my auctioned tweet. For the uninitiated, On March 2021, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet for USD 2.9 Million as an NFT Auction. NFT what!? So, that’s yet another rabbit…

There has been no other scientist in the world whose name is so indissolubly linked with Einstein in all the textbooks of physics. Still, many do not know much about the man or his personality. Satyendra was born in 1st January 1894 to a middle-class Bengali family in Calcutta…

The word juggernaut describe something that seems unstoppable, powerful, dominant. Online retailer Amazon is a juggernaut. Tennis player Rafael Nadal is a juggernaut on Clay Courts. Marvel Comics even has a supervillain named Juggernaut that possess infinite strength and invincibility. “Juggernaut” is the product of the collision between two forces…

Great Product Managers are the result of M-A-G-B-Y framework. Making decisions The tech industry moves at light speed and waits for no one. A PM may be overwhelmed with the number of decisions that need their green light and can fall victim to analysis paralysis if too much time is dedicated…

*******POP-QUIZ******************* What is the easiest way to transfer five Petabytes of Data (equivalent to Lifetime “selfie” budget of 40,000 people) from location A to B? Option A: broadband connection Option B: Cargo Airplane How many people and timeline are required to convert these five Petabytes of Data into a five…

Two years ago, an interesting event occurred at Facebook AI labs, which had triggered a huge debate in the scientific community. Researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) made an unexpected discovery while trying to improve chatbots. …

What fits in a shoebox, cracks complex problems, and can run for hours on the energy of a masala dosa? Human brain. Russell Peters, Maz Jobrani, Zakir Khan, Atul Khatri, Vir Das, Neeti Palta…doesn’t make us just smile. They make us laugh. Laugh hard. And thanks to youtube, this…

People in Kolkata (including me) are quite sentimental about two things. 1. Presence of potato in their Biriyani 2. ISI Kolkata Even though IIM Joka and IIT Kharagpur are more prominent in world-wide rankings, ISI Kolkata caters a totally different niche of talent and commands a different level of…