A common man with uncommon desire to succeed.Tumblr (3.0; @ankjain)http://www.ankjain.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4os52kVf21qdhl0co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Once upon a time, I went for hiking with my friends from Kosmix. This photo was taken at the top of Windy Hill in the picturesque Portola Valley, California. </p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23863258479http://www.ankjain.com/post/23863258479Sun, 27 May 2012 07:55:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4klx0Ob6s1qdhl0co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Somewhere in Sierra Nevada. With Gaurav Bhalotia.</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23725510457http://www.ankjain.com/post/23725510457Fri, 25 May 2012 01:49:08 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4i6bwLV6D1qdhl0co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English</strong></p> <p><em>Approx­i­mate­ly 375 mil­lion peo­ple speak Eng­lish as their first lan­guage, in fact it’s the 3rd most com­mon­ly spo­ken lan­guage in the world (after Man­darin Chi­nese and Span­ish) but inter­est­ing­ly enough it’s the num­ber 1 sec­ond…</em></p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23644435145http://www.ankjain.com/post/23644435145Wed, 23 May 2012 18:19:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fcjujocO1qdhl0co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Joy of living in India - mangoes and all the delicious fruits!</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23541424202http://www.ankjain.com/post/23541424202Tue, 22 May 2012 05:39:48 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4emuv6pn11qdhl0co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Lake Tahoe!</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23525245573http://www.ankjain.com/post/23525245573Mon, 21 May 2012 20:25:01 -0700<a href="http://vimeo.com/41796732">ZeroN</a>: <blockquote><p>by Jinha Lee 1 week 6 days ago, <a href="http://vimeo.com/41796732" target="_blank">vimeo.com</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Simply amazing! Gravity under control.</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23518067177http://www.ankjain.com/post/23518067177Mon, 21 May 2012 18:41:13 -0700<p>Here are five thoughts that came to my mind on the flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong:</p> <ol><li>Nothing is achieved without hardwork.</li> <li>Work Hard. Party Hard.</li> <li>When in doubt, take action!</li> <li>Pick a choice and move ahead</li> <li>Live Rich. Die Poor.</li> </ol><p class="p2">#5 is the most profound one. The credit should go to Richard Reed, CEO and founder of <a href="http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/" target="_blank">Innocent Drinks</a>. He wants to make LOT of money during his life time so that he can donate MOST of the money by the time he dies. This is what Bill Gates is doing. Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg and many others have joined Bill Gates in his mission. </p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23366227963http://www.ankjain.com/post/23366227963Sat, 19 May 2012 12:41:29 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3hdyRh60R-Q?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>How our beloved earth looks from 35000 km from sea-level? The highest resolution picture (121 Megapixel) ever from the space!</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/23070957221http://www.ankjain.com/post/23070957221Mon, 14 May 2012 17:15:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3uii367KG1qdhl0co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="https://signal.federatedmedia.net/friday-signal-the-internet-never-sleeps/" target="_blank">The Internet Never Sleeps</a><br/> fmpcorp, <a href="https://signal.federatedmedia.net/friday-signal-the-internet-never-sleeps/" target="_blank">federatedmedia.net</a></p> </blockquote>http://www.ankjain.com/post/22830696350http://www.ankjain.com/post/22830696350Thu, 10 May 2012 23:39:39 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qsz5ibxd1qdhl0co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/08/the_rise_of_indian_soft_power?page=full" target="_blank">The Rise of India’s Soft Power </a></p> <blockquote> <p><span>India’s soft power has now been on display for at least a couple of decades: Indian philosophy has captivated Western minds since the 1960s; Bollywood’s prodigious celluloid fare has long drawn huge audiences in significant parts of Asia, Africa, and beyond; India’s English-language novelists have often edged out native British writers for the prestigious Man Booker Prize; and, of course, yoga studios have become all but ubiquitous in the United States. However, even South Asian scholars and analysts have thought of India’s largesse as a possible source of material power, especially in the realm of foreign assistance.<br/></span></p> </blockquote>http://www.ankjain.com/post/22705218761http://www.ankjain.com/post/22705218761Tue, 08 May 2012 23:37:10 -0700<p><img height="612" src="http://distilleryimage2.instagram.com/9a65b7a697c211e1abb012313813106f_7.jpg" width="612"/></p> <blockquote> <p><span>There’s work, and there’s your life’s work.</span><br/><span>The kind of work that has your fingerprints all over it.</span><br/><span>The kind of work that you’d never compromise on.</span><br/><span>That you’d sacrifice a weekend for.</span><br/><span>You can do that work here.</span><br/><span>People don’t come here to play it safe.</span><br/><span>They come here to swim in the deep end.</span><br/><span>They want their work to add up to something.</span><br/><span>Something big. Something that couldn’t happen anywhere else.</span></p> </blockquote>http://www.ankjain.com/post/22578860479http://www.ankjain.com/post/22578860479Mon, 07 May 2012 01:46:59 -0700<a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/05/the-physics-of-spilled-coffee.html">The Physics of Spilled Coffee</a>: <p>“I cannot say for sure if coffee spilling has been detrimental to scientific research to any significant extent,” says study author Rouslan Krechetnikov, a mechanical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “But it can certainly be disruptive for a train of thought.”</p> <p>Krechetnikov and his graduate student Hans Mayer decided to investigate coffee spilling at a fluid dynamics conference last year when they watched overburdened participants trying to carry their drinks to and fro. They quickly realized that the physics wasn’t simple. Aside from the mechanics of human walking, which depends on a person’s age, health, and gender, there is the highly involved science of <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/the-physics-of-wine-swirling.html?ref=hp" target="_blank">liquid sloshing</a>, which depends on a complex interplay of accelerations, torques, and forces.</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/22527940085http://www.ankjain.com/post/22527940085Sun, 06 May 2012 10:50:34 -0700<a href="http://joel.is/post/22436341176/achieving-overnight-success-kevin-systrom">Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom</a>: <blockquote> <p><img alt="" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6203/6150792813_24cdf82b3f.jpg"/></p> <p><em>Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that perhaps by looking at the founders behind these “overnight successes”, it will become clear that…</em></p> </blockquote>http://www.ankjain.com/post/22452172142http://www.ankjain.com/post/22452172142Sat, 05 May 2012 09:20:30 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6x1GkgbVP1I?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>I would like to have this kind of room! - Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD)</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/22198173969http://www.ankjain.com/post/22198173969Tue, 01 May 2012 09:38:01 -0700<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/40802206" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>If this time-lapse video can not convince people to go to the majestic Yosemite, nothing will. </p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/22088616997http://www.ankjain.com/post/22088616997Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:20:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_looc2uD6a31qiqf01o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Feng Shui and the Apple Logo</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/21980798640http://www.ankjain.com/post/21980798640Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:33:07 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_sUeGC-8dyk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme</p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/21576267623http://www.ankjain.com/post/21576267623Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:03:21 -0700“<p>When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin.</p> <p>Why?</p> <p>Because when that coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you’re hoping for.</p>”http://www.ankjain.com/post/21075640065http://www.ankjain.com/post/21075640065Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:34:48 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dei2ZRAx1qkh45oo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>This is how the front page of newspapers looked 100 years ago when RMS Titanic sank! </p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/20970009410http://www.ankjain.com/post/20970009410Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:02:02 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9c6W4CCU9M4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This is why I still love Google. Technorati in Silicon Valley have written off Google. But, time and again, folks in Googleplex come up with ideas which completely changes the way people look at the technology. They did with GMail, Chrome, Android and now, with Project Glass -an augmented reality glass.</p> <p>This idea is nothing new. All of us have seen this in various forms in Star Trek and in many hollywood movies. In fact, I did some research related to this when I was in my undergrad - 12 years ago. But, Google has taken it to the next level. Google has “packaged” this project in a way that the idea reaches mass market all over the world. When I saw that this project was covered on the front page of an unknown newspaper in India, I knew that the millions of people in interiors of India will be thinking about the various uses of this sci-fi glass. They already have cell phones (in many cases, much advanced than my Android cellphone). I am confident that they will buy this in a heart beat! </p>http://www.ankjain.com/post/20720842464http://www.ankjain.com/post/20720842464Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:01:40 -0700