Exciting Tensions | Amrit Pal

2014-07-04

The technologist mentality is the immigrant mentality. Mobile, entrepreneurial, restless, a bit paranoid, striver, something from nothing. — Balaji S...

2014-06-11

"Like watching sausage getting made" Idiom: If something is like watching sausages getting made, unpleasant truths about it emerge that make it much less...

2014-03-04

There’s a lot of talk around simplicity — of products, experiences and companies, but hardly anyone delves into actionable advice about it...

2014-03-02

Gartner hype cycle for emerging technologies, July 2012. Special notes: 1. Mobile Over The Payment — better known as mobile money systems like...

2014-02-13

There’s an incredible amount of conversation around focus for new-born companies, their CEOs and product visions. As the legendary saying goes,...

2013-12-31

Through several ups and downs, our Nairobi family has come a long long way. Strangers have become family and we’ve found comfort in this incredibly...

2013-10-30

Regular followers of this blog know my scepticism with pushing the lean startup belief system to an extent of dogmatic obedience.   Iterative thinking...

2013-08-13

"The great heroes of human rights combine the fearlessness of a martyr with the creativity of an explorer or inventor…The first one to stand up...

2013-08-04

In a constant state of war, survival is enough. When bullets and shrapnel brush past your head every other minute, four hours of sleep feels more than...

2013-06-28

“The contrarian thing is not to be with the crowd, or fashionably against the crowd, but to think. Your life is not probability, it’s calculus...