THINK@RJ

Summer Reading 2022

The world seems to be stumbling. Crazy Volcanic Eruptions, unnecessary wars, mutating viruses, world powers changing hands, inflation (& possibly one of the worst recessions), the proliferation of regurgitated stories packaged in new ways by media houses, fake news, the rise of nationalism, the rise of insensitivity to your neighbour

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End of Year Reading 2021

The year ended with some not great news on the family front but we survived and things seem to be looking up going ahead. That got me thinking, amongst other things I have been very thankful for being able to structure in a generous amount of reading (books, articles, podcasts)

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Summer Reading 2021

When the world forces you indoors, you need to find a way out. If you are faced with a summer with COVID lockdowns in your city, you may want to hit some of these books to explore a different world out there. My other reading updates can be found on

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Podcasts I Like

I have always felt closer to sound. That's why I stuck with learning a guitar longer than painting on a canvas. When I am not performing cognitively demanding tasks e.g. walking in the evenings or cycling to work or in a Grab, I am usually listening to music or

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30-year Illusion of a Conscious Effort

I turned 32 yesterday and I wanted to do this last year but Transcelestial's Series A raise kept me busy. Below is a non-comprehensive list of elements from my personal framework that I have built over the years. It's a glimpse of how I think, what I believe in and

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Why I love anime?

I have pondered on this question for years. Today, while I was watching the anime Rurouni Kenshin, finally the answer hit me like a brick. Strong ConvictionsMy thesis is that Strong Convictions in anime characters are the main reason why I like anime so much - whether they are good

List of Awesomeness

List of Awesomeness #5

Hope everyone had a great holiday. Last month has been a bit busy. So my “experiment” with this kind of correspondence was on a hiatus. On the flip side, I have a lot of really good things to share in the coming weeks. BooksSnow Crash – Written by Neal Stephenson, this

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List of Awesomeness #4

In this installation I won’t be providing any book or paper suggestions. Instead I will summarize some of my thoughts on the previous list. PapersNot adding a new serious paper this week in order to give time to those who are still on Mr. Einstein’s papers. For the

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List of Awesomeness #3

Shifting gears a bit, I have decided to add in a few papers,books, articles that I found quite riveting last few weeks. PapersStarting at the beginning – with the greatest minds of our century – A. Einstein. He published 5 papers in a single year, 1905 a.k.a Annus Mirabilis

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Dino Fever!

Sufficient time has passed since the last social experiment with the “owl” as a pet. This time I wanted to pay a tribute to either the Jurassic Park movies OR the Star Wars movie, both of which have recently released trailers for their upcoming movie in the series. Ultimately, the

List of Awesomeness

List of Awesomeness #2

Cool Links http://raw.densitydesign.org/ – D3 is fascinating but always out of reach for non-JS devs. This is a kickass concept which matches the void between spreadsheet and advanced visualization. https://medium.com/@sall/using-charted-2149df6bb0bd – Another drop-in charting tool by the Medium Product Science Team. http://asana.com – Love

List of Awesomeness

List of Awesomeness #1

OK I might have gone overboard with the title but the gist is that I usually come across and curate a personal list of links, tools, websites, images, videos, songs, etc. Sometimes I bookmark them, sometimes I am distracted and the resource is lost forever. So in order to get

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A “New” Yahoo!

Why Yahoo Needs to Re-Invent?Yahoo made a good number of acquisitions e.g. Tumblr, Zimbra (which they sold to VMWare), Delicious. But even today these remain as external distributed services rather than a core part of Yahoo services and offerings. On top of this, the acquisitions keep on coming.

My First Magazine Article @ NTU!

Sifting through my old hard drive found this – my very first article for a NTU magazine! (and probably the only one I ever wrote while in NTU) I wanted to put the article in text and images below but I love how incredibly bad the layout was for some student

NTU Minor in Entrepreneurship – My Application Essay!

Entrepreneurship, according to Wikipedia, is defined as: the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunitiesThe Minor in Entrepreneurship Programme in NTU is one of the best minor programmes offered here and also its standard is comparable to the same

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Original TV Plot II – Aryans

Aryans – Episode 1Weather: Heavy rains with lightning and thunder Date: December 21, 2011 (around 11:00 PM ) Location: A military confinement unit in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, outside Port Blair, hidden by the forest. Scene opens with lightning and thunder in the sky, along with heavy torrential rain. There are

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Original TV Plot I – Aryans

Aryans – Character ProfileCharacter name: #1 Main Old Guy Age: (Actual) 462 human years (Visible) 30-35 years Eye Color: blue Appearance: Custom. Long black hair(which is tied into a choti),rough square faced with slight beard and a pointy moustache.wears glasses, round gandhiji types and wears gloves on his

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Dabbling with Raspberry Pi

I was trying to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi since last year but ordering it via Element 14 (ex. Farnell) – Link to buy online – seemed like it would take ages! So last week I went to the IT Show @ Expo and found a small shop selling new Raspberry

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Easy-Peasy Android to Mac USB Tethering

Just came across this amazing driver HoRNDIS done by Joshua Wise . This driver solves the age old problem of tethering Android devices to Mac via USB in order to share the 3G/4G data connection of your phone. Steps to get it working:Download the latest release version for the

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Owls in the house!!

OK *DISCLAIMER* – we didn’t actually get any real owls for this and no animals were harmed in the filming of this media content. Classic case of one thing leading to another, George and I were talking about easy it can be nowadays to fool people into thinking that you

New Youtube Look!

Above is the new Youtube look!! Not sure whether this is just experimental or something which is a possible new iteration of the video giant. In any case , if you want it just follow the steps below: Step 1 Open http://www.youtube.com in Google Chrome Step 2 When

So you think you can be Iron Man ?

Since I have kicked off an Infographic section on my blog, to continue with the theme which I left off in the last one – So you think you can be Iron Man? Check out the infograph after the break. Well it does spill a bucket of water over being a

Geek vs. Nerd – Let the wars begin!

I have always wondered why! o why! do people mix up geeks and nerds! Really troublesome to make people understand the importance of not calling one the other. So after years of irritation and to those countless times I had to correct people, finally found an infographic to do the

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Low Cost Multi-Touch Human Computer Interface – My FYP

I know I know I am late in putting this up.But yeah I have been busy the last couple of months settling in my new job at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). As a thinker and a creativist ( well atleast it exists in Urban Dictionary 😛 ), I have lots of

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Drunk Dude Goes Home :D

Recently a friend of mine Eugene Soh, who btw is an amazing photographer, tried his hand at game design. As he puts it in his website, “Inspired by true events”, he came up with a game called “DRUNK DUDE GOES HOME”. In this game the rules are simple: – use your