• The Noun Elon Musk Left Out of the SpaceX S1: A Positioning Read of the June 12 IPO

    The Noun Elon Musk Left Out of the SpaceX S1: A Positioning Read of the June 12 IPO

    A note before you read this: SpaceX has been operating for 24 years, and the part of the company most worth respecting is the part the financial press does not write about: the engineering culture, the cadence, the tolerance for…

  • Cloudflare built the internet’s Immune Layer

    Cloudflare built the internet’s Immune Layer

    A note before you read this: I’ve been watching Cloudflare for a long time. What Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway built, and what the team continues to build, sits in a category of its own. Fifteen years of…

  • Nerdio: The Command Layer

    Nerdio: The Command Layer

    A Note Before You Read: I’ve been following Nerdio and Vadim’s work the past few weeks, paying close attention to the content, the conference, the community, and the story being built in public. What you see here comes from genuine…

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  • Water cooler at the gym

    For the past month, I’ve been dodging social media in all its forms, which includes selling the iPhone. You could call it cognitive therapy for the overdosed in media exile. During this limbo, with time to spare, I took to bodybuilding solemnly. Like most gyms, mine is littered with 40-inch…

  • The Truth

    Here I am, a little past 2, bladdered on cheap Mexican beer. I’ve just gotten off the phone with a beautiful woman who’s triggered a pixilated argument over male sensitivity and transparency/honesty. Under these inebriate circumstances, my ability to rant swings to women or real-life in general (the life on…

  • The secret you need to know about women

    You’re sitting in a café, busy munching away a blueberry donut, eyeing a gorgeous babe from across the table, daydreaming a sequence from Dil Wale Dulhania Le Jayenge where the protagonist runs slow motion in a cotton field. Moments later, you’re awakened by the roar of a scolded African gorilla…

  • The Mars Theory

    You’d agree if I said girls, today, jump in and out of a relationship on a whim. That said, they are certainly running the show, multi-tasking life, giving the bandwagon – cause you can no longer be in the same one – a tough time and even calling the shots…

  • A Guide To Rejection

    Unless you’re Hank Moody from Californication or a shade of Brad Pitt’s chiselled Greek-half twin sibling, there’s a good chance you get the my-blood-freezes-so-I-hose-down-the-armpits-and-stutter at the sight of gorgeous ladies syndrome. This fear is triggered by thoughts of humiliation, in public mostly, and having your –delicate dandelion- masculinity trampled over…

  • Resolutions

    What? Not another New Year resolution? You’re feeling sea-sick? A stomach hurl coming along people. While others rant of in oblivion about all the things they’re never going to do, I promise to disclose the anatomy of it all (and, no, this is not a resolution in any form). In…

  • Men Are Tools

    You know what happens to the nice guys who pamper girls with flowers, chocolates, expensive gifts or give into her every whim because she has to buy that really cute dress from Palladium – the ones that try to hard at being the “perfect” man? They get the “best friend”…

  • Learning Venus

    If women today were like our mothers, we’d behave like cowardly puppies. A ‘Mr. Dependable’ of sorts, if you will. Too bad women are unlike us men. They have evolved much faster and sharper in lesser time. This means the gap between Mars and Venus can only be closed with…

  • Laid in the office. A guide to office romance

    Today, we spend a considerable amount of time in the workplace and come in contact with several people from the opposite sex. And, with polished stock readily available, it’s a matter of time before sparks begin to fly. For the sake of conversation, imagine (and this could be you right…

  • Anatomy Of A Hug Vol 2

    Before we get into part two (part one), I am going to share an incident with you. At an early age I learned some cheap parlour tricks by incessantly watching Joey and the infamous “How you doin?” on the hit TV show “Friends”. The idea of scoring women during my…

  • Anatomy Of A Hug Vol 1

    Today, in the Metropolitan jungle, we’re expected to be etiquette-ready for any situation. On a single day you could be hopping between a traditional Indian wedding to meeting the CEO to drinking beer with your pals at a local pub to a blind date. In between tea, cocktails and small…

  • How not to be a complete schmuck

    From what I have previously discussed, you’re A-game should be selling the idea of adventure, looking sharp, chest hair and making the first impression on Venus. That said and done, how does one go about this with little or no experience? Begin here. Take a brief moment and think about…

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