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20 Hour Long Movies

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Cover of Amitabh Bachchan They are not movies, but they are not called movies, but I am calling them movies. I did not watch them any differently than I watch movies on my computer. They are movies, as far as I am concerned.

First I watched Kevin Spacey's House Of Cards. I was mesmerized. There is no way you could do justice to the material in a two hour movie. It had to play out. I binge watched. Then I watched Amitabh Bachchan's Yudh. I will watch anything with Amitabh Bachchan in it. And I just finished watching 24, Season 4, all 24 episodes of it. I binge watched. Such superb treatment of the material.

Hollywood is society's imagination wing. It helps process scenarios.

I have become a huge fan of 20 hour long movies. Bring it on.
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Google And Diversity: Fail Whale

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The top tech company in the world is not doing it right.

Exposing Hidden Biases at Google to Improve Diversity
Founded by a pair of men, its executive team is overwhelmingly male, and its work force is dominated by men. Over all, seven out of 10 people who work at Google are male. ...... Men make up 83 percent of Google’s engineering employees and 79 percent of its managers. ..... of its 36 executives and highest-ranking managers, just three are women. .... the firm’s poor gender diversity.. the severe underrepresentation of blacks and Hispanics among its work force. ...... the centerpiece of which is a series of workshops aimed at making Google’s culture more accepting of diversity. ..... to fight deep-set cultural biases and an insidious frat-house attitude that pervades the tech business. Tech luminaries make sexist comments so often that it has ceased to become news when they do. ....... Google’s disclosure prompted a wave of similar reports across the industry, with Facebook, …
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Jackson Heights

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Tiki-Taka

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How Network Theory Is Revealing Previously Unknown Patterns in Sport
Tiki-taka is characterised by rapid short passes and fast movement by the players. The idea is to dominate possession of the ball. That’s in sharp contrast to conventional tactics that focus on player formations.

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The Bourne Resurrection

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Matt Damon at a presentation for The Bourne Ultimatum in Mexico (Photo credit: Wikipedia)@UniversalPics I have a story for Bourne 5 that I would like to flesh out.
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) September 16, 2014

@UniversalPics The Bourne Resurrection http://t.co/XqZPhE6js2
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) September 16, 2014

"I've always been open to it if Paul Greengrass is the director," Damon said to CNBC in May of this year. "We've just never been able to come up with a story. So, if any of your viewers have a story, please call Universal and submit it."Matt Damon Will Probably Play Jason Bourne Again After All
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Gates And Musk On Energy

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Going Corporate, Going Startup

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Medium (TV series) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This Medium post has been a social mediaviral hit the past few days.

How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up

@paramendra I know. I kept it for another article but I totally agree with you. Thanks for the feedback!!
— Ali Mese (@meseali) September 13, 2014

Why was this post a big hit?

It is well written. The title is catchy. Many more people do startups these days than was true before the 2008 recession. The title speaks to fears many people have. Most people avoid going into the startup grind because deep down they know it is going to f*ck up things.

The post has great introductory paragraphs. The writer seems to be a classic success story. He got a great education, then landed a great job. He was flying business class.

Then he pinches you the reality. It was not all that great. He was mostly staring at spreadsheets, all night long, all flight long. A lot of people relate to that.

They say that about marriage…
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