A week before he died, Musashi wrote the Dokkōdō, or The Way of Walking Alone.
It consisted of 21 rules and provided a roadmap to live life by.
The rules are strict and harsh, but honest and powerful.
IIT Madras Researchers developed an AI-based Mathematical Model to identify cancer-causing alterations in cells. The algorithm uses a relatively unexplored technique of leveraging DNA composition to pinpoint genetic alterations responsible for cancer progression: IIT Madras
Less than 1% of startups get VC funding. So, when your startup plans entirely hinge on being VC-funded instead of Customer-funded, you are already fighting 99% failure.
Modi : We have Vaccine but production capacity is limited. For now we will prioritize, with Health Care Professionals, Front Line Workers, 60+, 45-60 with Co-Morbidities, then 45+ coming first, mainly because of their exposure levels, and chances of mortality 1/n
The problem, @OfficeofUT ji, is that the people a lockdown hurts most are the poor, migrant workers & small businesses. The original lockdowns were essentially to buy time to build up hospital/health infrastructure. Let’s focus on resurrecting that & on avoiding mortality.
Peaceful coexistence requires that we reject any doctrine that asserts an absolute monopoly on truth. Or as the philosopher JK put it, "Truth is a pathless land."
Communism, aggressive monotheisms, modern woke religion all assert that monopoly on truth. They are totalitarian.
My biggest lesson from IIT?
No matter how smart you are, there is someone smarter out there
No matter how hard working you are, there is someone even more hard working out there
No matter how ambitious you are, there is someone more ambitious out there
Lesson is Humility.
1/5 “We lost! Too expensive...We missed this one feature...Our security was below par.”
I was having lunch with a founder. She was quoting what an underperformer in her Sales team kept saying. I had seen this behaviour everywhere. I call it “blaming the arrow”. Let me explain
It's Nirvana to be back to warmth of my Ladakhi room from cold Delhi... could never imagine wearing a tshirt there.
There was a time when Ladakhi people wd migrate to Delhi for winters...
Not anymore, thanks to our #PassiveSolar#EarthBuildings.
Outside min : -15 C
Inside:+24 C
India's 3 largest startups by valuation are:
PayTm
BYJUs
OYO
None of them is "from the IITs". One of them dropped out of college.
"Pedigree" could open doors but building large companies has no correlation.
There is no playbook - only ambition, hunger and hustle.