Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
This is all in the past, I lead a much saner life now, but if you need the statistics, I can oblige. On 12/27/06, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this means 2 months at a stretch without ever seeing a Sunday, working 16 hours straight every day that's fine. in your 16 hour schedule,

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Aditya Chadha
I am looking therefore for a solution that will allow me to keep my thoughts together, reducing the time needed to switch tasks while retaining maximal task efficiency. It would be ideal if there was also a way to get the fun back into the tasks without having to allocate time on the calendar to

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 10:36 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: meaningless pauses in life. What is a meaningless pause in life? shiv

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 12/27/06, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 10:36 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: meaningless pauses in life. What is a meaningless pause in life? Let's not take things too literally here. I was refering to any event outside of your control where you are usually

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: [ on 04:35 PM 12/27/2006 ] What is a meaningless pause in life? Let's not take things too literally here. I was refering to any event outside of your control where you are usually idle and doing next to nothing. I noted your wording as well but chose not to comment

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 4:35 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Like for example, when you get stuck in an airport / traffic jam, when someone is supposed to show up for a meeting and doesn't, when you are supposed to be working on the computer but your broadband / electricity won't work, when you

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cheeni, you want to go watch Click shiv sastry wrote: On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 4:35 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Like for example, when you get stuck in an airport / traffic jam, when someone is supposed to show up for a meeting and doesn't, when you are I think you are trying to find the

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 6:06 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: watch Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_(film)

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 12/27/06, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 4:35 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Like for example, when you get stuck in an airport / traffic jam, when someone is supposed to show up for a meeting and doesn't, when you are supposed to be working on the computer

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 27/12/06 17:58 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: [ on 04:35 PM 12/27/2006 ] What is a meaningless pause in life? Let's not take things too literally here. I was refering to any event outside of your control where you are usually idle and doing next to nothing.

[silk] Economist on Indian VC scene

2006-12-27 Thread Manar Hussain
For those who missed it: http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8447659 Face value Delhi dreams Dec 19th 2006 From The Economist print edition Sanjeev Aggarwal believes that venture capital is about to boom in India Helion THE propensity for risk-taking in India has gone

Re: [silk] Economist on Indian VC scene

2006-12-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Manar Hussain wrote: [ on 07:39 PM 12/27/2006 ] All this makes Helion India's first noteworthy American-style venture-capital firm. Its $140m gives it reasonable clout. Eh? Westbridge? Chrysalis Capital? Various others? I think Helion is several years too late to be the first American style

Re: [silk] Economist on Indian VC scene

2006-12-27 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 12/27/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manar Hussain wrote: [ on 07:39 PM 12/27/2006 ] All this makes Helion India's first noteworthy American-style venture-capital firm. Its $140m gives it reasonable clout. Eh? Westbridge? Chrysalis Capital? Various others? I think Helion is

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Thaths
On 12/27/06, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/06, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a meaningless pause in life? Let's not take things too literally here. I was refering to any event outside of your control where you are usually idle and doing next to nothing.

Re: [silk] go before you go

2006-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 08:44:25AM -0500, Casey O'Donnell wrote: I've never found the story itself that interesting, but the discussion was hilarious. The blog site contains as much as you'll find on this discussion. I'm still not sold that it costs that much to flush. My The cabin is

Re: [silk] Economist on Indian VC scene

2006-12-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: [ on 08:00 PM 12/27/2006 ] Eh? Westbridge? Chrysalis Capital? Various others? I think Helion is several years too late to be the first American style VC in India. A lot of the industry majors have their own VC arms too, Intel Capital for example. I suspect the

Re: [silk] Digital Maoism

2006-12-27 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 26/12/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 03:00 PM 12/26/2006 ] I'm on LinkedIn, at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sundaram. Those of you on LinkedIn, please do link up. http://www.linkedin.com/in/hserus http://www.linkedin.com/in/udhay The

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 12/27/06, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past when I've needed to concentrate on work, and get massive amounts of work out of the door I've resorted to a very simple strategy - I've maxed out my time. I found some of the ideas on this blog pretty useful. Simple but

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 12/27/06, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to know this down to the second, but I remember it was less than 15 minutes. My diet was restricted to ramen and pasta on most days. The routine was to get up and get the pot with the veggies boiling before brushing my teeth, and I

[silk] SL

2006-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/12/12/second_life_what_are_the_real_numbers.php See the comments, especially. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820

Re: [silk] SL

2006-12-27 Thread Thaths
On 12/27/06, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/12/12/second_life_what_are_the_real_numbers.php See the comments, especially. Going on a tangent: http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?p=587

Re: [silk] SL

2006-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:46:08AM -0800, Thaths wrote: On 12/27/06, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/12/12/second_life_what_are_the_real_numbers.php See the comments, especially. Going on a tangent:

Re: [silk] SL

2006-12-27 Thread Manar Hussain
http://azeem.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/the_nude_avatar.html A friend commenting and linking to the same article from Clay posted to valleywag. Hmm. Syndicating articles to different sites means something different when on-site comments are more important... m On 12/28/06, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 6:30 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Whoa! How does calling my dad on the phone in a traffic jam cause my family to fall apart? Your dad will probably love you whether you call him or not. That's his karma. In most cases of relationships - it takes two to Tango. If you

Re: [silk] go before you go

2006-12-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eugen Leitl wrote: first thought is that we'd better make some better toilets, not, let's take away toilets. Thats bass-akwards thinking, IMHO. Guys - its China Southern we're talking about .. and their fleet has several venerable old antiques in it [of about the same age as the rustbuckets

Re: [silk] go before you go

2006-12-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 03:20 PM 12/23/2006 ] We think a catchy slogan would help motivate travelers. How about: Flush, then fly with us. Or maybe, Go before you go. For a different kind of travel, but a related problem:

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 07:02 AM 12/28/2006 ] Your dad will probably love you whether you call him or not. That's his karma. In most cases of relationships - it takes two to Tango. If you decide to satisfy your part of the relationship deal during unpredictable periods like traffic jams, you

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 12/27/06, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Stress can equally well be caused when you are raring to go and cannot work due to external factors. I find that is the case often these days for me, just the other day I was getting my home DSL connection installed. After verification

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: not given to shouting. My wife can't remember any time that I've seriously lost my temper, and she was just amazed listening to me on Ha. You haven't been married all that long, Cheeni .. so I dont know if that alters the case somewhat, re the frequency of your blowing

Re: [silk] Economist on Indian VC scene

2006-12-27 Thread Aditya Kapil
The propsensity for risk-taking is a very relative phrase. Early-stage companies in IT and Biotech are still not funded. The exit horizon still hovers at 3 years, PIPE deals or quick-flips are still the most preferred. There are very few VC's looking at TRUE start-ups. Let us see what this so

Re: [silk] Economist on Indian VC scene

2006-12-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Aditya Kapil wrote: [ on 09:48 AM 12/28/2006 ] There are very few VC's looking at TRUE start-ups. Let us see what this so called 'Phase 3' VC's ends up funding. Absolutely. The proof of the pudding and so forth. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] go before you go

2006-12-27 Thread Aditya Kapil
Tangential but cute: http://www.micom.net/oops/QantasNote.jpg On 12/28/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 03:20 PM 12/23/2006 ] For a different kind of travel, but a related problem: