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By Sameer Kalwani, November 24, 2011

A new MIT discovery could make all-optical silicon chips possible, enabling faster computing: http://t.co/akMtBMiT via @AddThis

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By Sameer Kalwani, November 15, 2011

Great article on the importance of metrics in the social drinking water industry: http://t.co/URDbl1AF (@GOOD stuff)

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By Sameer Kalwani, November 15, 2011

Great article on Sarvajal’s business model, for those of you who are interested: http://t.co/3xcUjFA8

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By Sameer Kalwani, November 2, 2011

Popcast is now up… http://t.co/upTtMigl. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

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By Sameer Kalwani, January 23, 2011

Over the past couple of days I’ve been doing some inadvertent self-reflection and an obvious but unrealized idea came to me: I have a history of going out of my way to pursue challenges, so much so that I handicap myself with the gauntlet I purposely put myself through…

Continue reading 'Challenges'»

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By Sameer Kalwani, January 7, 2011

Ahmedabad>Mumbai>Jaipur>Bagar>Jaipur>Bathinda>Delhi>Ahmedabad

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By Sameer Kalwani, December 23, 2010

It is a clear fact that the past 50 years have changed the world more than any other 50 year period before it. I am certain that the 50 years before that were just as influential to society 50 years ago. That is a key thing to recognize, we – as humans – incrementally build on the lessons of those before us. We piece information together and build off the innovation of past generations. In essence, innovation is incremental. There is no game-changing inventions. They are only small building blocks on what came before. In fact, typically invention is just piecing two disparate pieces together to come up with a solution to a problem, when there is something that is considered revolutionary, it’s spent after years of incremental build-up in a laboratory. Very few ground-breaking ideas (in my view) just appear.

Necessity quite honestly is not the mother of all invention. Many ideas are invented not out of necessity, but out of incremental build-up. Necessity is the mother of all market demand. If Apple’s iPhone emerged in the early 1990s and was sported by Saved by the Bell’s Zach Morris or Wall Street’s Gordon Gecko, would it have taken off as well? There was a market desire for an easy to use smartphone, which Apple met. Timing an invention with the market is a requirement.

In today’s sustainable world, there is a market requirement. People, whether they are at the Bottom of the Pyramid or at the Top of the Pyramid, are seeking for Gandhian Engineering solutions. Everyone wants to do more with less for more, but how do we do so? Continue reading 'Agile Infrastructure'»

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By Sameer Kalwani, November 30, 2010

The past few weeks I’ve been doing some self reflecting … being food poisoned twice in 3 weeks definitely helps out. Somehow these thoughts were less about me, and more about global issues

• Is the joblessness rate really that surprising?
• Everyone wants affordable and accessible resources that encourage development, but how can we provide?
• How are these disparate concepts correlated?

While the severity of the recession may have been a surprise, the unemployment outcome should be considered somewhat expected – unfortunately. There are several reasons why: Continue reading 'Globalization Whiplash'»

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By Sameer Kalwani, November 14, 2010

It’s been a few days short of a year since I’ve posted a full on blog post rather than the typical twitter feed. Some of it has been accidental due to just run-of-the-mill “hecticness” and other parts have been conscientious.

About a year ago, I had a lot on my plate. I was a few months into a new job, working to develop my non-profit, training for a marathon, writing this blog, writing a book, and many other things. I had too much going on for me to do well on any of it. I had to come back and focus. I put my blog, book, and marathon on hold and focused on 3 things: Sarvajal, Business School Applications and my non-profit.

Continue reading 'Quick Update'»

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By Sameer Kalwani, June 20, 2010

I’ve got like 30 lbs of GMAT books that I no longer need. let me know if you want ‘em.