Tag: good thinking

Interview: Robert Cheek, Director Biz Dev at Yujin Robot, South Korea

Pooja Kashyap

Lately GoCart, a service robot from the vault of Yujin Robot Innovation Team, South Korea has hit the headlines across the globe. The bot opens up a new level of human-machine interaction where the machine will replace people in doing the everyday mundane and heavy piles of monotonous tasks, thus leaving the humans to provide emotional support, a task, which a machine can never accomplish. In order to get more in-depth analysis of the robot and its future implications, we tried to get in touch with Robert Cheek, Director Business…

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Interview: Michael Kerbow, Founder at MK Studios, San Francisco

Pooja Kashyap

Michael Kerbow is a San Francisco-based artist who works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, assemblage, and digitally-manipulated photography. He received his MFA from Pratt Institute in New York. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has appeared in multiple publications. He left his regular job at print advertising only to pursue his passion for painting and drawing. He is of the view that the role of an artist is to distill the world they inhabit for others to see the things that may elude them.…

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Interview: Jessica Nebel, Founder at JN Design Studio, Germany

Pooja Kashyap

Jessica Nebel is an entrepreneur / designer heading her own eponymous firm in Germany, Jessica Nebel Design Studio. Her firm provides design and consulting services to start-ups, corporations and leading international design agencies, some of them include Huawei Technologies, Designaffairs, icon incar and Pilotfish. Before founding her own studio, she had worked for international and renowned clients like BMW, BMW MINI, Schwarzkopf, Sennheiser, Bayer MaterialScience, Dell, TomTom, B/S/H, British Telecom and Asus at various design consultancies in UK and Germany such as Frog Design and Pilotfish. She earned an MA…

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Interview: Naomi Kizhner, Founder at Energy Addicts, Israel

Pooja Kashyap

Naomi Kizhner is an industrial designer from Israel. She has recently made headlines with her speculative “Energy Addicts” accessories that morph involuntary physical movements such as blinking of eyes and blood flow in veins into electricity. With an aim of exploring the post-humanistic approach where the human body might be used as a resource, the designer created the invasive futuristic jewelry. Lately, we got an opportunity of interviewing the most versatile and talented designer, so without much ado, please scroll down and see what the designer has to say about…

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Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Pooja Kashyap

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a treat to read, I wonder why didn’t I pick it up before. I’am sure am gonna read the sequel as well. Talking about this book, it is divided into six chapters, randomly talking about events and occurrences and then the authors delve back to the nearest probable reason(s) which in most of the cases, hits back to the causes that have been asserted by the respective experts at the times. Deftly, the authors have been able to prove…

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Interview: Janus Yuan, Founder at Driver Focused HMI, Illinois

Pooja Kashyap

Janus Yuan is a passionate designer who feels that design have more depth into human behavior and user experience. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the U.S. and a Bachelor of Engineering from China, the degrees have helped him in gaining a multicultural approach towards design. His specialties include, user experience (UX), human computer interaction (HCI), human machine interface (HMI), information architecture, data visualization, car infotainment system, augmented reality and product design. Experiences in these fields have given him a unique perspective on front and…

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Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Pooja Kashyap

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a parable presented by American businessman, author and investor Robert Kiyosaki. He talks about the two individuals who inspired and influenced Kiyosaki in his later life, first being his dad the ‘poor dad’ who was a government employee and had a steady flow of salary, while other was his friend Mike’s capitalist father, his ‘rich dad’. Throughout the book, Kiyosaki talks about the different perspectives towards finance, which the poor dad and the rich dad shed on their children in general. One talks in conventional…

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Interview: Michael Matera, Co-Founder at Third Floor Gamers and Edbean in Milwaukee, WI

Pooja Kashyap

It’s our pleasure today to introduce Michael Matera, he is an Educator / Speaker / Consultant World History & IR teacher at University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. He has been speaking at the international and national events, like International Society of Technology in Education, Next Generation School 2014 Conference, California TechFest, Edcamps: Milwaukee, Chicago, & Madison and the list goes on. He has been involved with major projects like Gamification, Game Based Learning, Technology Integration and others as well. He has co-founded edbean.com, dedicated to all the educators across…

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Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman

Pooja Kashyap

Ninety percent of the book talks about mathematics and physics but that is what Mr. Feynman, the top-notch scientist was famous for. The li’l tit-bits of his life are beautifully crafted along with his sense of humor. His love and attitude towards life was quite contagious especially to those who crossed the paths all through his life. The book will make anybody laugh and would have wished, like me, to meet such persona once a lifetime. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman acknowledges the fact that Richard Feynman was known to…

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Book Review: Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr Brian Weiss

Pooja Kashyap

The book is quite a fascinating read, it got me hooked from the beginning till the end. It talks about reincarnation, the theme was depicted in Cloud Atlas as well but the concept of ‘debt’ is quite an innovation. The Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture is also known for the same concept. The book, Many Lives, Many Masters talks about 12 past lives of the 86 total lives. It is interesting to see how a skeptic research scholar is drawn towards spirituality and instead of focusing on giving more…

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Book Review: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Pooja Kashyap

Selfish Gene is quite a fascinating book and I liked the way Richard Dawkins introduced the metaphors and analogies. Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and author. Most importantly he is a science educator. And one of the finest science writers so far. The book, Selfish Gene happens to be my first read from Dawkins works. In this he advocates gene as the principal unit of selection in evolution. Right from the starting, this book got me hooked. All his logics seem to fall at the right places. The…

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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Pooja Kashyap

Very aptly, Walter Isaacson has been able to depict the lives and times of the celebrated genius, Steve Jobs. The book talks about the emergence of Silicon Valley and the contemporary tech aficionados as well. It begins with his rebellion attitude towards life and his contemptuousness towards his biological parents who left him for adoption. Right from Steve’s first job at Atari, perfectionism could be seen as one of his major character trait. One probable reason could be his father’s influence who was very particular even about the look of the…

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Interview: David Henrichs, Co-Founder at DH Product Design in Germany

Pooja Kashyap

David Henrichs is a German designer whose design philosophy is very well depicted in all his works – beauty combined with sustainability. He lives and works in London, Munich and Berlin. His work demonstrates a combination of geometric and natural forms. His designs not only are simple to look at but also run on futuristic lines and colors. Very deftly, he is able to fuse fashion in his unique collection, which does not override the aesthetics of his products. There’s more to this creative individual, we are pleased to offer…

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Tracking Time and Task using Lego Bricks: Gamification Facilitator

Pooja Kashyap

The other day I was having an interesting conversation with my peers on Quora on the topic of merging Gamification and Lego, I know it sounds li’l offbeat but the idea stuck me with an interesting concept, which I thought of jotting them down in a structured form. Think for a second of measuring the daily todo list with lego bricks, stacking one over the other with different colors and forming an architectural structure. Let’s make it simpler, take a look at the following example.

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The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

Pooja Kashyap

I bought this book just because I saw Taleb eulogizing the book right on the book cover and so I fell for it. If you have read The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb then I would strongly re-commend do NOT go for the book but if you haven’t dipped into the ocean of Taleb’s thoughts then this book is for you. More or less, The Art of Thinking Clearly harps on the same line of thoughts, as is the case with Black Swan.…

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