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romanovtexas | 5 years ago | on: Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

Probably will get downvoted for this, but I think the halo around reading books is overrated. You can gather ample amount of knowledge just as well via a series of essays online, podcasts, and sometimes even twitter threads.

Most of the books, for example, introduce a radical new idea and then elaborate on that needlessly for 400 pages. I found Sapiens to be one such book.

Even if the idea/premise is insightful, there is often a lot of redundancy in the pages. We should value brevity more.

Of course, this might not apply to all books. Textbooks/Reference books can happily coexist with online tutorials/blogs. Even certain nonfiction books (Thinking Fast and Slow comes to mind) might be best presented in a book format.

romanovtexas | 5 years ago | on: HBO Max taking on Netflix with human curation instead of relying on algorithms

HBO is betting on their content to be superior right now, but there are some obvious areas where the streaming experience isn't on par with Netflix. No 4K/HDR, one plan costing a premium that limits simultaneous streaming to only 3 screens, etc.

Hope that they catch up eventually else it's gonna be hard to compete solely based on content.

romanovtexas | 6 years ago | on: How Tech Can Build

>"First, tech should embrace and accelerate distributed work. It makes tech more accessible to more people. It seeds more parts of the country with potential entrepreneurs. It dramatically decreases the cost of living for employees. It creates the conditions for more stable companies that can take on less risky yet still necessary opportunities that may throw off a nice dividend instead of an IPO. And, critically, it gives tech companies a weapon to wield against overbearing regulation, because companies can always pick-up-and-leave."

The next big "tech" revolution is working from home -- and distributed working. It has been around, like the way smartphones were around before the iPhone -- in concept, but never realized in practicality. It is an imperative that tech should accelerate and develop a cohesive set of products that will enable iPhone like working from home.

romanovtexas | 7 years ago | on: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

Blogger and Tumblr aren't like Medium; maybe a good comparison for them would be Wordpress. Twitter's official blog isn't on Medium. So doesn't "have" it - blog.twitter.com

romanovtexas | 7 years ago | on: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

Slightly off topic, but the fact that the world's richest man who owns a tech giant chose to publish this on a closed platform like Medium should be worrisome for the future of the open web. On the other hand, this might just be the biggest brand endorsement for Medium till date.

romanovtexas | 8 years ago | on: Why is 11 am and 1 hour == 12:00 pm?

Fascinating. I've seen that at a lot of shops and places in Japan they go beyond the 24 hours – indicating continuity in a way.

For example of a shop is open in the pattern –

Monday, January 8th 21:00 till Tuesday, January 9th 02:00

The Japanese signboards will denote it as -

Open on Monday, 8th Jan 21:00-26:00

I think it's we quite convenient and let's the people know that the shop's time pattern sort of carries on from the previous day onto the next.

romanovtexas | 8 years ago | on: Japan eyes startup visa program

I went to the Startup cafe a couple of times, but I failed to grasp all the general amazement around it. I hoped to meet new people and learn about their entrepreneurial activities, but again, the people didn't speak English; and those that did, didn't seem interested.

romanovtexas | 8 years ago | on: Japan eyes startup visa program

>This process is hard but not as nightmarish as people who don't live in the country reading articles make it sound.

Agree wholeheartedly. Been living in Fukuoka myself for the past two years, and I cannot help but notice that the foreign population here has been steadily growing. Although the city is marketing themselves to be the new Startup hub in Japan, I still think it has to be as global as say, Tokyo, to catch up. English is also not so commonly spoken here as Tokyo.

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