Author: Arun Basil Lal

  • iCon: The Story of Apple, NeXT and Pixar

    iCon is a biography of Steve Jobs and tells the story of his journey with Apple, NeXT and Pixar. I was expecting to read more about Steve Jobs, the man, but it turned out to be more about Jobs as a Entrepreneur with flashes into his personal life here and there.

  • It Was Never About The Bike

    The book is about his life so there is definitely lot of Bike-ing in this one. More than that, the book is about he being a cancer patient, about how he got over it, about the most wonderful people he met in his life, about how he gave birth to his baby and how he…

  • 500 Days of Summer and 1 Day of Autumn

    As they say it, it is a story of a boy meeting a girl, but its not a love story. Having said that, the movie is very romantic and is all about Love. No, its not another tragic ending movies, it ends very happily… shh, I should tell you about the twist. Go watch it.

  • An Opportunity to Meet 400 Young Indian Entrepreneurs

    The title I had in my mind for this post was something like “An Opportunity to Meet 400 Young Entrepreneurs and Travel 10000 kms through India”. Meeting 400 cool people itself is awesome, so I figured that if I tell you the rest of it right in the title, you would probably won’t be able…

  • Simple Logics for Screwed Up Times

    When we are screwed up, we find explanations to console ourselves. At least I do. The following are some of my favourite explanations which I use depending on the demand of the situation. I don’t care if they are right or wrong, I just feel better when I think this way.