Why is the news more polarized than ever?
Over the last three years, both the mainstream and online news media have become increasingly biased, siding more strongly than ever on specific issues and marching to the drumbeat of their respective parties. These differences have grown so deep and caustic that the news from each network almost sounds like its from a different planet. […]
Chasing the perfect User Interface
Hence, I am taking a break from my random stray thoughts for a change and writing this memo/mini-manifesto to myself to remind myself of things I (and my team) need to keep in mind while doing what we do. We spend countless hours designing application logic, we spend months debugging rules and flows, we put […]
Center-Left or Center-Right
There are two political parties in the United States – ok, there are two political parties that matter in the United States, but in reality, much like dialects within a language, there are numerous divisions within two main parties. Terms like social liberals, progressives, neoconservatives, etc are usually thrown around by the media as if […]
Creative answers on exams
Found these while trolling the web today; had to save them – good for a laugh some other day
Can we buy a little happiness everyday
Every day is a blur, every day is another churn of the machine, every day is another fleeting memory, everyday is another sad story. I recently befriended a girl and almost instantly envied her because she seemed to derive happiness from the smallest and most trivial things that most of us so nonchalantly wave away. […]
Blaming the market turmoil on FAS 157
What a blast from the past. FASB is finally issuing new guidance about market-to-market accounting rules after much finger pointing from both the Congress and the Wall St wonks. Almost a year ago, there was a big furor by Blackstone’s Schwartzman about the potential dangers of FAS 157 and the blogosphere debated about it pretty […]
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si
is now stuck in my head. The seven basic notes of classical music are the 101 of all basic music learning, yet I have never heard of them till last week when I was asked to memorize them till I could sing every song in these syllables. The first thing that came to my mind […]
The Bozon Threat
A couple of decades ago, public health officials noted an increasing and alarming phenomenon. Smart people who had spent a lot of time with stupid people were turning stupid. Permanently. This was seen as a significant problem. Investigation revealed that stupid people emit a small, lightweight particle that travels in irregular motions like a fly […]