At the recently concluded 99th Indian Science Congress in Bhubaneshwar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lamented the decline of India’s scientific prowess relative to China and other nations, while listing several of the government’s initiatives to promote research and development. The…
Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.
You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on technology as the solution to climate change: Incremental technological advances are already getting us smarter flats, more efficient cars, cleaner natural gas, yield-enhancing genetically modified seeds. We need technology and markets rather…
Vision is not an image fully formed. Vision is knowing where to look without necessarily knowing what to look for. Vision is the ability to see the trail of breadcrumbs, and the strength and conviction necessary to follow that trail despite not knowing where it leads.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on how liberalization brings structural dislocations with it. The solution is counter-intuitively not to stop liberalization, but to liberalize deeper and faster: The fable of The Shop Around The Corner rings true in…
There is nothing like “basic science” and “applied science”. There is only science and its application.
– Louis Pasteur
Far and away the best prize that life offers is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.