Decoding English Premier league’s gamification strategy It is not new for mobile applications to use ‘Gamification’ as a tool to engage users. Duolingo, a language learning app, built its entire habit building and engagement on Gamification. What is Gamification? In simple terms, Gamification is using game like elements in a product to mould user behaviour. In…

I came across a youtube video recently. It was a conversation between an engineer from Amazon and the video creator. They role play the interview of a Software algorithm to print all the left nodes of a Binary Tree. Those who are software developers in product companies and preparing to…

I watched a football match between Brentford FC and Chelsea on 16th October 2021. It ended Brentford losing 0 -1 to Chelsea. The result though does not speak for the game. Brentford played great football against the top club in England right now. This happens many times in football. The…

I recently watched Mimi movie on Netflix. Mimi, a young dancer in India, aspires to become an actress. John and Summer are an American couple who cannot conceive and are in search of surrogate mother. They choose Mimi to be the surrogate as she is fit and strong due to…

Patterns Many mathematicians found patterns in the nature and came up with great concepts. For example, arithmetic in early days was only limited to counting positive numbers. Then came integers, fractions, rational, irrational numbers etc. There came a set up of numbers which are transcendental numbers like pi and e. What…

Moments I remember EURO 2020 for — EURO 2020 was concluded on 18th July 2011, a year after it was originally scheduled due to covid-19 pandemic. Football is the most popular sport in Europe and brings great joy to fans including me. Week on week fans queue up to watch their favourites clubs play. Of course, in…

What are OKRs? OKRs stands for Objectives and Key Results. OKRs were created by Andy Grove at Intel and taught to John Doerr by him. Since then, many companies have adopted them. Objectives are the big vision the company has. It is qualitative and provides direction to strive. Key results are how the…

Life, as we know it, is of contradictions. Self-actualized human, as per Buddha, is one who is not bothered by the materialistic cravings but yet able to savour the things the nature provides. One who abstinates cannot experience. Without experience, there is no savouring. Practicing the joyfulness without clinging on…

Akhila is a young 10 year old girl. She lives with her parents in Mumbai. She is the first grand child in the family. While growing up, she got to enjoy the doting love of her grand parents near Nashik. She spend all her early toddler years with grand parents…