Diving into the Controversial World of IPL with Lalit Modi

Lalit Modi, the mastermind behind the Indian Premier League (IPL), recently had a candid interview with Raj Shamani. The interview delved deep into his life, his role in creating the world's biggest cricket league, and the controversies that led to his exile from India.

Interview has 3 basic sections - From Dream to Reality, Power Plays and Political Intrigue and

The Fall from Grace.

Here is a discussion on this interview.

Reading List - 05-Mar-23

Talking to #AI may be the most important job skill of this century (JohnGoodPasture)

Role of account management over the years. It’s a role that collaborates with multiple stakeholders and has different meanings from agency to agency, and person to person. How do you make sure this diverse role feels meaningful and empowering to those who undertake it? How do you make sure its identity crisis doesn’t disrupt the running of an account or leave fault lines in anyone’s career development? (The Drum) #Leadership

What does it take to develop the perspective and skillset needed to succeed — no matter the situation? - A playbook for agile, inclusive leadership (Ted Talks) #Leadership

Measuring software engineers and teams by meltrics is fraught with controversy, and rightly so. There are many horror stories of individual developer productivity being measured by Lines of Code, number of commits and other activity-based metrics. This is usually ill-advised, but it doesn’t mean that metrics don’t have a place in software engineering. A look at a small set of useful (may be!) metrics (Chaordic) #Quality #Governance #Metrics

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Reading List (25-Feb-23)

Cheatsheets on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistics, and Linear Algebra by Stanford University (Twitter)

How To Become A DevOps Engineer: An Untimed Guide (theopalblog)

New Tex Regime Vs Old Tex Regime - Which one to choose for FY2023-24 (Income Tax Dept, India

Tandoori Aloo Frankie by Sanjeev Kapoor (Twitter)

Need of regulations for Ayurveda (DownToEarth)

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Public Blockchain

A generally intelligent but non-technical explaination of public blockchain:

https://twitter.com/TaylorPearsonMe/status/1130556491419869184?s=09

Reading List - May 19, 2019

“If you like to travel, let Python help you scrape the best fares!” by Fábio Neves
https://link.medium.com/tl81196rOW

“A ‘weird’ introduction to Deep Learning” by Favio Vázquez https://towardsdatascience.com/a-weird-introduction-to-deep-learning-7828803693b0

School in Assam, India accepts plastic waste as school fee
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6534639926619832320

Critical thinking is a 21st-century essential — here’s how to help kids learn it
http://blog.ed.ted.com/2019/05/09/critical-thinking-is-a-21st-century-essential-heres-how-to-help-kids-learn-it/

Photo Stream - Fig Fruit

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November Reading List

Here are some of the articles I have been going through recently:

• 16 Open-source Tools Testers Should Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving

Thanks to some super intelligent softwares and applications that we can get complex testing processes done in minutes utilizing the amazing functionalities they offer. It is only because of these tools that testers can get their testing process done with ease and rest assured of the working of websites and web applications....

• Best air-purifying houseplants, according to NASA

Next time you’re cruising Amazon for an air purifier, consider heading to your local nursery instead. ..

• This new Brooklyn-based company is making some of the best watches you can buy for under $100

• This All-In-One System Rescue Toolkit Automatically Repairs Your PC

The Lite version dials some of those tools back and makes the scan and repair process automatic, so you can use the toolkit, walk away and grab a bite to eat, and, hopefully, come back to a repaired and functioning Windows system—or at least some more information about what you should do next if the toolkit couldn’t fix your problems.

• 12 things successful people do in the last 10 minutes of the workday

Perhaps you spend the last 10 minutes of your workday staring at the clock, counting down the seconds until you're free. Or, maybe you bury yourself in your work until the very last minute — then you grab your stuff and go without saying goodbye to your colleagues....




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Article: A neuroscience researcher reveals 4 rituals that will make you a happier person

You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don't know what they're talking about. Don't trust them. Actually, don't trust me either. Trust neuroscientists. They study that gray blob in your head all day and have learned a lot about what truly will make you happy. UCLA n...

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Happiness Isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings

"Happiness feels intolerably elusive for many of us. Like fog, you can see it from
afar, dense and full of shape. But upon approach, its particles loosen and suddenly it becomes out of reach, even though it's all around you.
We put so much emphasis on the pursuit of happiness, but if you stop and think about it, to pursue is to chase something without a guarantee of ever catching it..."

https://hbr.org/2015/08/happiness-isnt-the-absence-of-negative-feelings

New Payment Banks

New Payment Bank Licenses are Finally Here. Here's What They Can Do.

http://capitalmind.in/2015/08/new-payment-bank-licenses-are-finally-here-heres-what-they-can-do/

Habits of people who always get promoted

Check out this article I found on Prismatic: "Habits of people who always get promoted"

http://prsm.tc/vPS7Oi