Author Archives: rogupta
Career management
I gave a guest lecture 1.5 years ago to some juniors/seniors at MIT about career management. It’s something I’ve spent some time on, so I thought I would attach the presentation below. None of the information is ground-breaking, but I … Continue reading
Posted in Career
Tagged Career, Career Management, Education, Employment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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MLB App on the iPhone Rocks
In the spirit of the playoff stretch, I thought I would briefly mention how awesome the MLB app on the iPhone is. The MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) group has done a great job over the past several years. Since I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Baseball, Boston Red Sox, iphone, Major League Baseball, MLB Advanced Media, MLB.com, MLB.tv
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Why Do We Need an Email Address AND a Phone Number?
There’s been a large movement online towards consolidating identity. Single sign-on (SSO) online has been a goal for a long time, starting with Microsoft’s Passport and then the OpenID and Open Stack movement. Facebook Connect, in its short life, has … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged facebook, Facebook Connect, Friend Connect, google, Google Voice, GrandCentral, OpenID
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Short-Term Goals
Last week I attended an event here in the Valley with Aneesh Chopra, the CTO of the US. Not too long ago, I was heavily involved in politics (worked on campaigns, etc), and technology was rarely talked about, so I … Continue reading
US Government Already Pays More Than Other Countries’ Single-Payer Systems
I blogged about this before, but I thought it was relevant to cover again after reading Paul Krugman’s brief post and listening to all the controversy (fear) on a single-payer system (please see the definition if you are not familiar … Continue reading
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Amazon and Zappos Sitting In A Tree…But Is That Good For Us Consumers?
When Amazon announced its acquisition of Zappos yesterday, I was pretty excited. Here were two of my favorite companies joining forces. I have become a huge advocate of Amazon (especially their Prime service) over the past couple years, as they … Continue reading
Why I gave up my Blackberry Bold (and Palm Pre) for the iPhone 3GS
I am probably not the typical phone user. I rely on my device for a ton of things throughout the day and night, anywhere from email, maps, news, shopping, entertainment, and, of course calling people. My Blackberry 8800 and then … Continue reading
Health Care Expenditure by Country
There’s a lot of talk about health care proposals in Washington these days. Personally, I have been having issues with my health insurance and health care provider getting on the same page – i.e. they’re making me pay for a … Continue reading
Deficit Should Not Impact Health Care
Last week the NYTimes released some very interesting data (methodology) about how we went from an $846 billion surplus when Clinton left office in 2001 to a $1.2 trillion deficit currently estimated for this year (via Freakonomics and Matthew Yglesias). … Continue reading
Cell Phone Contract Termination
I don’t like cell phone contracts. But maybe I should. I recently bought a Blackberry Bold on AT&T and signed a two year contract. Turns out that AT&T’s 3G network (as most AT&T subscribers can tell you) is beyond atrocious. … Continue reading
Rohit Gupta 