Deepest Turtle

  • Respect The Truth, But Fall In Love With The Illusion

    On my Facebook profile, my tagline is “Respect the Truth, but Fall in Love with the Illusion”. This isn’t just some interesting line I came up with. It is something I actually try to follow in my life. Not always successfully, but aiming to do better and better over time.… Read ⇢

    Respect The Truth, But Fall In Love With The Illusion

  • Humein To Loot Liya (New Lyrics)

    If his supporters are honest to themselves, they should be singing this modified qawwali right about now: हमें तो लूट लिया इन बिखरे नारंगी बालों ने छोटे छोटे हाथों ने, झूठी झूठी बातों ने What’s interesting about this song is that once you start with the lines above, the rest of the… Read ⇢

    Humein To Loot Liya (New Lyrics)

  • Three Futures: Idiocracy, Starship Troopers, and Elysium

    Various people have compared the current situation in the country to the movie Idiocracy. In this movie, humanity has undergone a process of devolution until the entire population has become dumb. It is really a shocking movie and a great commentary on the current state of our society. But while… Read ⇢

  • Taking It With A Grain Of Alt-

    Every year, the good people at the Oxford dictionary come up with a “word of the year”. We are still in January right now, but I am betting that the word of the year for 2017 will be “alt-“. Yes, it isn’t actually a complete word, but given how powerful… Read ⇢

    Taking It With A Grain Of Alt-

  • My First Musical Composition!

    Here is my first musical composition ever! I created this as a part of the Ableton Live course I did recently on Coursera (conducted by Berklee College of Music). The course was a lot of fun for me and I learned a lot. Of course, I am still very much… Read ⇢

  • What Facebook can Learn from Git

    Facebook (and other social media services) can adopt a couple of very useful ideas from the far more advanced social collaboration platform, Git. While these are probably better thought of as power user features, they can actually provide a very beneficial function for the social network as a whole. Post… Read ⇢

  • A More Realistic Movie Plot

      <spoiler alert> Just came up with a fantastic new idea for a scifi blockbuster: Twelve alien ships land on earth. After struggling for a few weeks to help the humans understand their language, the aliens eventually give up and learn English instead. They pick up the latest words, colloquialisms,… Read ⇢

  • The 7 D’s of LeaDership™

    The 7 D’s of LeaDership™ (My forthcoming book, TED talk, and seminar series) It goes without saying that the world has changed very rapidly and drastically in the last few years. Most people also understand that we ourselves need to change along with the world, otherwise we will be left… Read ⇢

    The 7 D’s of LeaDership™

  • The Windswept Tree

    You have probably heard the Rich Man and the Fisherman story. (In case you haven’t heard it, you will get a chance below.) It is meant to persuade people to lead a simpler life. In my opinion, that story is a little too idealistic, too biased, and also rather incomplete.… Read ⇢

    The Windswept Tree