Re: [silk] Silkmeet on June 29 - bangalore

Depends on Venn you want it. Regards Rajeev > On Jun 20, 2017, at 06:56, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Rajesh Mehar wrote: > > Who wants to draw a Venn diagram of all of this? Heh. > > > ​Please move discussion to the

Re: [silk] In praise of slowness

This post touched a nerve. Here's my experience - I used to be an investment banker and corporate strategy (or stragedy, if you like) person. Pursuant to a showdown with the boss, I took a break in late 2011. Here's how I spent my time (or, as Terry Pratchett once wrote, "What I did in my

Re: [silk] What are the books you've gifted?

I try not to gift books to people unless I know what they like to read. However, for kids' birthdays, I go with one of the following - 1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2. The Magic Faraway Tree 3. The Wind in the Willows 4. Anything from the Paddington Bear series 5. Anything from the

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

Which makes me feel a whole lot better about the last 5 years of my life. Thank you nicely, Udhay. Regards Rajeev > On Sep 21, 2016, at 20:42, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Sandhya aka Sandy < > sandhya.varn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To Dave

[silk] Sunday morning alarmist read

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/armageddon-comma-explained?utm_source=bbcfb This popped up on my newsfeed. Cursory scan revealed the key words "synthetic biology", "bio hacking" and "eco-terrorism", which meant a detailed read. It is an alarmist take on climate change, pandemics and so on.

Re: [silk] The Deadpool List

Lusting after long-lasting lists. Regards Rajeev > On Aug 9, 2016, at 12:10, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:53 AM Mohit wrote: >> >> ​Thank FSM you didn't say "if anybody on the list has the list, please list

Re: [silk] What replaces Landmark in Chennai?

would recommend Granth (Juhu) and Kitabkhana (Fort) in Mumbai. On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Venkatesh H R wrote: > IMHO > There are 3 types of bookstores: > 1. Big chain stories, like Crossword, landmark etc. Where you have > best-seller lists, best fiction, best

Re: [silk] Hello (intro)

Hello Venky I trust you remember an old friend from 16 years back? Regards Rajeev > On Aug 4, 2016, at 11:08, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > > Venkatesh, we might have met while I was at Red Hat. I am currently > Director of Fintech for iSPIRT (see www.ispirt.in and

Re: [silk] Tom Athanasiou's TedX talk on the climate crisis

Hello John I know you sent across the text of your talk on Biohacking recently. I'm unable to trace it though. Could I request you to resend it, please? Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards Rajeev > On Aug 2, 2016, at 21:13, John Sundman wrote: > > Tom is the author

Re: [silk] "obligations" of a novelist?

Hello John I've spent some time going through your site and the agenda you outlined in the link to your seminar. I do have some thoughts, which I've run by Udhay (as this is my first post on this forum, I would like to avoid falling flat on my face, metaphorically!) Synthetic Biology is an