Tell me if this sounds familiar — you get up around 9 to 10 am. You roll around for half an hour in bed, checking up on your social media. Then you get up, still drowsy, take care of your morning duties at home, and sit down at your computer — all the while wishing you could just sleep a bit more.

The nigh times though, are a totally different story.

You start to feel fully energised by evening. It is then that you start to take things seriously — you start working around late evening, and you prefer to…

One of the first companies that made some of the most memorable cell-phones, is Nokia. But Nokia, also realised from a basic overview of how people actually used their cellphones, that — people had to recharge the phones quite frequently, they had to carry around the chargers too sometimes, and there would often be network issues like signal loss or interference.

Nokia came to the realisation that for the masses to adopt cellular phones, needed more than just the basic communication features. And this is where they upped their game.

Nokia introduced colourful back covers of the phones, and customisable…

Samuel Pierpont Langley was a mathematical genius, he was a senior officer of high regard at the Smithsonian Institution, he had taught at Harvard, and his friends included Alexander Graham Bell and Andrew Carnegie.

Everyone firmly believed that it would be him to make history.

In the early 1900’s the US war department had also given him a grant of fifty thousand dollars — which was an incredibly huge amount of money back then. He had the money, he had the brains, he had all the support anyone could possibly need.

But does the name, Samuel Pierpont Langley actually ring…

Casey Neistat. One of the greatest short-film makers I’ve ever seen. If you’ve seen one of his films, you’ll know what I’m talking about. And if you’ve seen any of his vlogs on YouTube, I am pretty sure that when you saw his studio in downtown-Manhattan, your jaw dropped like mine did.

It was a haven for any craftsman — impeccable lighting, amazing handiwork, one of the most diverse set of tools you could ever imagine, from multiple broken drones to a working hand-held angle grinder. Everything had its place, almost everything was labelled and sorted into boxes.

Yet, there…

The once-revolutionary company — Apple, had roughly three hundred and fifty products that it was selling. This is the mid-1990s I’m talking about.

Apple was on the verge of quitting.

Steve Jobs finally returned in 1997, and he began a tremendous overhaul of the company — not only of the people who were working at Apple, but also of the product line-up that Apple had.

The most drastic change was cutting down on the number of products from over three hundred and fifty products, down to just ten.

You might be thinking — of course he took such a risk…

Have you ever washed a spoon? It’s a very simple task right? Yet most of us have sprayed ourselves with water, more than once, while washing a spoon.

The view of water falling from the tap onto the concave side of a spoon, always comes with getting splashed on. On the other hand, when the water strikes the convex bulging side of the spoon — the bottom face, we can see the water smoothly running down in a beautiful laminar flow — spreading out from the point of impact definitely, but not so much as to spray us.

So, once…

We spend nearly 45% of each day, doing nothing but thinking. That equals almost 11 hours. That is a lot of time spent not doing things. But don’t get me wrong, we absolutely need this amount of time — to think, to process all the information that comes raining down on us every single day.

Hence, it is justified that we utilise time to think, to plan, to figure out stuff. That said, if we Are spending 10 to 11 hours in thought, it is somewhat imperative that we think correctly.

And this is where, we need to take into…

We all know what a vernier calliper or a screw gauge looks like. And if you’ve ever used them, you would have observed that a screw gauge tends to give more precise readings, than a vernier calliper.

But that’s not all.

If suppose a vernier calliper and a screw gauge were specially designed such that both of them were equally precise, we would still note a difference in their readings. But we know that the measurements from both are equally precise — then where does the difference creep in from?

You see, for measurements, just precision is not enough, there’s…