Each time you’re about to throw away an empty container — for ketchup, cereal, pickles, milk, macaroni, paper towels, dog food or whatever — you just pass its bar code under the scanner. With amazing speed and accuracy, the Ikan beeps, consults its online database of one million products, and displays the full name and […]
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As adults, we don’t enjoy being in the rain. We may say we enjoy the rain, but it is as a distant observer - we ourselves need to be warm, dry and inside to enjoy the cool, wet outside.
I really can’t think of a single time in my adult life […]
Paul Graham’s article about cities focuses on Cambridge, Silicon Valley and New York. Each city, according to Graham, sends a message:
Cambridge says “you should be smarter” - it is the city of intellect, the city of ideas.
Silicon Valley says “you should be more powerful” - it is the city of startups.
New York says “you should […]
Watching an opera at The Met is an incredible experience. But not everyone lives in New York. This past year was the second season where people could watch the operas, live, in theaters.
The Met’s transmissions of eight live performances to movie theaters reached 908,000 people, more than the total number who attended performances at the […]
Once our choice set has been expanded to include things that we never dreamed of that are gloriously better than what we have, it’s very tough for us to be content with the things that used to give us pleasure.
While the article is about real estate in Manhattan, the statement holds true for most things […]
The plan that could have made Manhattan more livable was nixed in Albany.
Mr. Bloomberg and his supporters — including a vast array of civic environmental organizations, as well as key city officials like the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, and other elected officials — viewed the proposal as a farsighted and essential step toward […]
Why Do the Wives Stand There, Next to Their Men?
Published March 12th, 2008 in New York and Politics. 0 CommentsNY Times:
Some of the Internet chatter on Tuesday suggested that Ms. Wall Spitzer’s silent presence at her husband’s side represented a dark day for feminism, with one writer railing, “Someone needs to tell his wife that ‘stand by your man’ does not apply here!!! … She needs to have some pride.”
But others turned the feminist […]
Joseph Stiglitz won the 2001 Nobel Prize for his work on the effect of information asymmetries on markets. He used that lens to talk about the current sub-prime mess and its effects globally.
Very illuminating. And quite entertaining as well - with some amusing and pointed digs at Greenspan (considering that Stiglitz was the Chairman of […]
Third anniversary of blogging
Published May 10th, 2007 in Bloggers, India, New York and Personal. 8 CommentsOn May 10th, 2004, I started blogging.
I had been in New York for about six months (albeit with a horrendous travel schedule to California) and I quite disliked being in Manhattan. After the wonderfully warm weather and incredible open skies of the Bay Area, I found Manhattan claustrophobic, dirty and over-crowded. And, to be fair, […]
In the four years I’ve lived in New York City, some things have gotten better and some things have gotten worse - much, much worse. One of the key things has dramatically deteriorated is the traffic situation.
There is gridlock in so many parts of the city and not just at rush hour, but almost all […]
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