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Observation Book: a blog on software, art, business and other pre-occupations of Vandana Guru

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  • How to Read Non-Fiction (Or Why Most Serious Books become Intellectual Gym Memberships)

    How to Read Non-Fiction (Or Why Most Serious Books become Intellectual Gym Memberships)

    How to Read Non-Fiction (Or Why Most Serious Books become Intellectual Gym Memberships)

    July 7, 2019
  • The Great Expectations on WhatsApp

    The Great Expectations on WhatsApp

    Here’s how WhatsApp could monetise the platform without jeopardising the user experience.

    June 28, 2019
  • An Opium Of The Modern Age

    An Opium Of The Modern Age

    On 31st October 1517, a German Christian monk and academic did the unthinkable. He wanted to debate the Roman Catholic Church, the highest power of that time, on some of its practices. Being a meticulous professor, he made detailed notes on his radical propositions. He not only sent a letter of his theses to the…

    June 16, 2019
  • What Is Product Management?

    What Is Product Management?

    I’m going to try and answer different variations of this question and those that will inevitably follow upon introducing to your fellow colleagues. What do Product Managers do at work? I mean, I see them talk, blog and tweet a lot. Do Product Managers do marketing as well? I see far more Economics graduates of…

    June 5, 2019
  • 10 Favourite Reads from the New York Times

    10 Favourite Reads from the New York Times

    The Roman philosopher Seneca wasn’t talking of the New York Times when he said “Time discovers truth”. But, a lot of what I’ve been reading on the NYT over the years has helped me uncover the many truths of the world, find answers to questions I could never complete framing myself, and as one author…

    May 10, 2019
  • The Greatest Honour

    It’s funny that we never know when exactly we gained it but we can exactly pinpoint to what made someone else lose it. I’m not talking about fat. It’s about this precious thing called trust. Trust is as old as humanity itself starting from the barter system. Strangers simply trusted what they received is of…

    January 30, 2019
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