Philosophy literally translates to “love of wisdom”. I don’t know if we can blame it on the crude and generic nomenclature, but it is one of the least understood disciplines. …

In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari says that there exists no human trait which is absent in women but is needed to run a human society successfully. …

Yuval Noah Harari has called money the greatest fiction ever created by humans. Tyler Winklevoss (Facebook fame) calls money the largest social network ever. Whatever money is, it sure does play an extremely important role in our lives. The book “What Has Government Done To Our Money” has some mind-bending…

Nolan just doesn’t make conventional films. One of the unique elements of his films are his experiments with time and information reveal. Memento is told in reverse chronological order, but this is not revealed to the viewers from the beginning, so they unravel the story in a new way. Inception…

I have an unethical startup idea. I would ask my customers to sign up to pay for their attention. Customers would log in and start streaming a 10-minute video. The content of the video is something that I’ll decide. Rest assured, it won’t be blood violence or NSFW or anything…

The desire to understand their universe has been one of the most distinctive traits of homo sapiens. It is what enabled them to leverage the nature to their own causes, building a formidable empire with earth’s resources in a way the other species could never imagine. …

On the outside, it is a song. From the inside, the Gita is a study of human conduct. The Gita is one of the few guides to the ideal way of living life. Most modern books on religion, psychology, spirituality, and anthropology ask their readers to probe their conscience and…

“It’s an intelligent question” — said the speaker, pointing from over his shoulder to the large slide on his back. “One of the many questions that we’ll never be able to answer.” “But we can at least talk about it. Can’t we?” The speaker moved a little more to the…

A couple of days back, I stumbled upon this wonderful guide to “crack” the Google interview:https://medium.com/better-programming/cracking-the-google-coding-interview-3b8dd29b0d6a. Among other things, what caught my eye was this cool list of “Top 15 Google coding interview questions”. Immediately I thought, could I solve all of these questions if I wanted to? So, I…