23 Mar
2014
OTHER POSTS
5/31 Quote: K. Pattabhi Jois
“With practice, all is coming.” ~ Krishna Pattabhi Jois
How Elon Musk Got Into Space
How do you position yourself to disrupt an industry? Elon Musk: When you’re looking for an opportunity, I think it’s important not so much to focus on just disruption for the sake of it, but rather where is an industry either stagnant or in decline, where the product or service has stayed pretty much the […]
Hartmut Esslinger: How I Taught Steve Jobs To Put Design First
Anything along the lines of Steve Jobs and design interests me. I am not sure if Apple has the best products, but after reading Walter Issacon’s biography of Jobs, I am certain that when technology design was taking off, no company cared about design more than Apple. FastCodeDesign kills it again with content regarding design […]
Ashoka The Great and Spreading Buddhism
In today’s selection — the first great unifier of large parts of the Indian subcontinent was Ashoka the Great (304-232 BCE), who converted to Buddhism after witnessing the bloody horrors of his own wars, and used the moderating influence of Buddhism to help unify the widely different peoples within in his realm. He sent missionaries […]