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A blog that provides: book reviews on a range of topics (mysteries, investment books, biographies...), some great ideas/hacks for improving your productivity and saving money.

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  • TED Talks - Thoughts on cell phone design.

    Posted on Tuesday November 6th, 2007 at 19:08 in emerging markets, technology; cell phones

    Following up from my post last night about interesting places on the web to watch some thoughtf provoking videos with interviews, lectures from a variety of interesting speakers. I wanted to offer some thoughts after watching a presentation by Jan Ch...

  • "Black Gold" - Movie Review

    Posted on Sunday October 28th, 2007 at 18:33 in emerging markets

    Just finished watching an interesting documentary from the U.K. titled "Black Gold" that details the struggle of coffee farmers to achieving a fair price for their coffee. The film puts a human face on the challenge of increasing the price farmers in...

  • Perspectives from "India's Manpower Crunch"

    Posted on Monday September 24th, 2007 at 19:18 in emerging markets

    This months Bloomberg magazine has an interesting article by Abhay Singh and Subramaniam Sharma titled "India's Manpower Crunch". The article details a major potential stumbling block on the road to continued strong GDP growth (>9%) namely the countr...