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By one definition, freedom is the space / ability to do what you want. Orca Starbuck explained Aldus Huxley to me saying that he recommend...

The 0 Hotel in Koregaon Park I had dinner with Satish Dharmaraj the other night at the O Hotel in Koregaon Park. I've been wanting to ch...

Its time for a general update. I've started talking with people up at IIMA again about being a part of the next iAccelerator , so I'...

I initially thought I would live in Calcutta when I first came to India. A guy a friend met on elance met me at the airport and booked me in...

I've been playing with setting up Drupal for a website to manage the cyborg boyscouts - techstart.in This was one idea for a series of e...

In order to fully assimilate the fleshy beings into the global super organism proper neural pathways must be deeply established. With insuf...

I like the way the boyscouts provides an extracurricular structure to train its members in skills outside the scope of the traditional schoo...

HeadStart.in Bangalore Jan 9 & 10. Submissions by Oct 30 Proto.in Bangalore, December sometime TiECon Delhi Oct 22 - 24 Innovations ...

I asked the pune startups mailing list what web services they use. Here are some of the responses. business planning and board management P...

FairSoftware.net I am fascinated by this company. Handling money is one of the biggest problems with small businesses of any kind. As an ang...

Google revolutionized the chat business - or at least the chat social network. With Yahoo and AIM I consciously added everyone to my chat li...

Yesterday I had a great conversation with an old friend Jason Knight. We worked together at Kendara and recently he was the founder and CEO ...

This morning I met with a business school in Pune to discuss the incubation center they are planning. I attended and talked at a workshop at...

Markha Valley Pics Leh Pics A couple days after finishing the Markha Valley trek in Ladakh I boarded a bus with a bunch of other travelers a...

Recently I got a random email from someone who had (almost) the same name as me and happened to be visiting pune Yesterday I had tea with Mu...

Today we finished our 6 day trek thru the mountains of Ladok. About 5 of those days we hiked for 7 or so hours thru gorgeous river mountain ...

Tomorrow we're starting a trek. Its the Maka valley trek or something like that, and we'll be walking 6 or 7 hours a day for 6 days....

First, this has been a great experience. Over 80 applicants applied, and the 5 teams we selected to be a part of the program have been unive...

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo . blublu.org

This is a great term. I wish people would feel it more deeply when they succumb to the temptation of criticizing friends and colleagues who ...

When we were raising money for Kendara we had a number of conversations with David Cowan of Bessemer ventures. He had funded Visto which was...

One fascinating aspect of living in India is how economically diverse the population is and how the different classes coexist relatively ha...

Predictably, the people most instrumental to our success at Kendara were a part of the process from the beginning until we sold. Our lawyer,...

AIGA and Adobe have launched an initiative to define the professional characteristics of the designers of 2015 so that we can prepare design...

* The title is actually a link to the about ycombinator page. Like all of PG's writing I think it reads extremely well, and describes w...

Paul Graham has a whole essay on how to succeed as a startup. It's called not dying. How Not to Die . He mentions their success rate bei...

Snakes, Scorpions, Song and Dance

I just spent 6k rps getting the camera on my n93i fixed. The first thing anyone here asks me when I tell them I did something is how much I ...

I've started doing yoga again. My practice pretty much stopped when my teacher moved to Australia. At least working with him, and in muc...

We're still in the first week of the iAccelerator and the business workshop is still taking up most of people's time. But as we get ...

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Last night I moved into the dorms up in Ahmedabad. In addition to the iAccelerator participants the winners from Microsoft's Imagine Cup...

Bikram helped us out with the yoga DVD. http://www.myspace.com/bikramflute

At Idea camp Pune The first talk discussed how to use the web to help the Pune city government engage the community. http://punetech.com/?s=...

Tomorrow I'll meet with the people behind the iAccelerator program at IIM Ahmedabad. Tarun talked to them about mentoring their first ba...

I'm back in Hong Kong preparing to fly back to India tomorrow. Ulrich introduced me to Jenny and Aaron Farr who have a nice place on Lam...

When I first spent a few weeks in Bangkok and finally managed to get out of the Koh San Rd. traveler district I remember being totally impre...

At the innovations2008 conference in Pune, I think I put AngelMentor as my company on the registration form and word got around that I was s...

Went to BaramatiInitiatives(.com) early this week. The net of the conference seemed to be that technology is nolonger the issue with rural c...

Tuesday the friendly folk at Reliance took a small group of us out to Khairat to visit the OLPC pilot school in India . The school has one r...

Super funny popular hindi music video subtitled as a native english speaker understands the words - Tamil antiwar video -

I just returned from Varanasi. Its my favorite city so far. Calcutta impressed me because so many people I met were spending the large part ...