March 2012
90 posts
“This too will pass.”
“At times of change, the learners are the ones who will inherit the world, while...”
– Alistair Smith
“Once we have computer outlets in every home, each of them hooked up to enormous...”
– Isaac Asimov on Learning
“If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it’s new you are...”
– Jonny Ive.
And this speaks a lot about how we are working towards improving Education for the world at Teemac.
IPR fixes for 2020 - Concrete motivations and... →
I wonder what Teemac is losing out on by not being protected by the strict IPR laws like those in the US. At the same time, over here in India, we do not have to worry about infringing patents as much as we would have to in the US. So creating something new and innovative has less friction.
Nevertheless, this is something that I keep pondering about a lot these days. We are building a product...
Real Humility
First, you need to understand what Ego means. Ego is that voice in your head that has decided to be a Republican. Or an atheist. Or responds to a sound that folklore calls a ‘name’. Ego is that part of you which has many things to lose - a name, a political alignment, a religion, property and self worth, knowledge and skills that the world accredits you to posses, happiness from...
Elephants demonstrating advanced teamwork! →
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow...”
– Eden Phillpotts
“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from...”
– Daniel Boorstin.
(So true. I call this “pretension to knowledge” the real lack of humility.)
“If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.”
– Guo Xiang - Han Dynasty
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov. (I particularly love this one!)
“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very...”
– Albert Einstein
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Emerson
“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.”
– Smiley Blanton
“Prayer, in its truest sense, is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that...”
– Swami Chinmayananda 