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The joy of being amazed
Being amazed is a feeling that I hope I never have enough of. This is the story about one such moment of amazement.About 10 months ago, just before I was about to leave India, I visited my grandparents...
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I am afraid
I am afraid that I will not live long enough to see all my dreams come true. I am afraid that one day I will not be fit enough for everything that I did not do.I fear there will come a day when I wil...
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Pauca Sed Matura
Silicon Valley is obsessed with Facebook-esque mantra of "Done is better than perfect". While it might be heresy but I beg to differ. Done is better than perfect until it is not. More importantly let...
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Coming up with ideas
“Just think about it deeply, then forget it…then an idea will jump up in your face.” - Don Draper, Mad MenOver time I have found this to be one of the best ways to trick my brain into coming up with an...
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Great Designers
Great products don't spring from great designers like Athena from the skull of Zeus; instead, they were usually the result of a lot of trial and error, missteps and blind alleys, and hard work and deep...
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Pursuit of the Best
His exacting standards of craftsmanship combined with a Spartan streak made him reluctant to buy any furnishings that he wasn’t passionate about. He had a Tiffany lamp, an antique dining table, and a...
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Reflections & Resolutions
2012 was an amazing year. Having just moved to Silicon Valley all the way from India, I got to meet a ton of new people and make some really good friends. Many of those were people I looked up to or...
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Ephemeral Apps
Which of the apps we use and love today will be around in a year from now. 5 years? 10 years?As designers, engineers and entrepreneurs, who spend most of our time crafting digital products, how often...
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What's Next
On April 24th, 2011, I wrote my first email to folks at Pulse expressing my interest in joining them. After 1 year, 9 months and 21 days of working here, it is finally time for me to move on to new...
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The Great Age of Unbundling
A while back when I wrote about "Content in a digital era", I touched briefly on the idea of unbundling. It's not a novel idea, I am pretty sure you have heard of it before, in one form or the other....
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Building a better blogging platform
Note: I wrote this answer on Quora a while back.I love writing and there are a ton of things that can be done to change and improve the state of blogging platforms drastically.Here are some that I feel...
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Feedback & Fidelity in Design
You are on your way to work and waiting at the traffic signal. As you look aimlessly across the street thinking about a design problem you have been struggling with for weeks, you have the Aha moment....
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Pulsar — Rethinking RSS
For the last two years, I have been thinking a lot about content. How people consume news, discover it and more importantly what the future of content most probably looks like. RSS is a major part of...
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Naysayers
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”This quote from Steve is my standard response to naysayers. People...
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#nofilter
Originally posted onMediumIsn’t it ironic and amusing at the same time that we live in an age when #nofilter is almost a badge of honor for a media? A sign of pride shouting this is the moment as it...
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What kind of a designer are you?
No! I said…what kind of a designer are YOU?In the short time since I started designing, I have had a bunch of titles to describe my role; some I chose myself when freelancing, and some were given by...
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Pescadero State Beach
Last evening, me and a bunch of other friends made a short trip to Pescadero State Beach alongside State Route 1. Got some good shots despite the foggy weather and low light including a pod of sea...
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Point Reyes
Just in time for the sunriseOver the weekend Chris Connolly, Dave Johannes, Rebecca Goldman, Andrew Kim and I made an early morning trip to Point Reyes to chase the fog and shoot pretty pictures. We...
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Hack Design Lesson
Hack Design is an amazing resource for people to learn more about design via simple lessons covering different topics ranging from typography to animations in design. I was asked to write the final...
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Pencil by FiftyThree
Paper from FiftyThree is easily my favorite iPad app. You can guess it's importance for me from the fact that it was the sole reason for me to not get the iPad Mini and go for the Air. For the last few...
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