venkatesh

Sudhir Venkatesh coached young drug dealers for interviews (ex: to become a janitor).

The powerful Venkatesh Rao recently wrote a column on related themes.

Umm, who is Venkatesh Rao and why should I read 30 essays by him?

Did Venkatesh write this by crashing into the keyboard?

As an Indian American entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Venkatesh Shukla has been hiring software professionals from India for years.

I really want to believe that the playing field is level no matter if your first name is Paul or Venkatesh or Bambi or LaTonya, but I don't have absolute trust in that.

Whenever individuals must make decisions on behalf of organizations (public or private), they must be able to justify their actions in the rational, sometimes psychopathic, terms of their institution (to make legible decisions, to use Venkatesh Rao's terminology).

Inspired by Venkatesh Rao's book, "Tempo," I'm trying to make a model of envelopes which is more like a weather system than bouncing ball.

The end result of this is documented by the "Gervais Principle" analysis of Venkatesh Rao, and I continued the analysis in the "Gervais / MacLeod" series on my blog.

This article is very similar to the thesis of Sudhir Venkatesh's "Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York City" which studies how low level criminals (crack dealers, prostitutes) try to cross racial and economic classes to expand their businesses in NYC.

India has led the genocide in Kashmir of over 100,000 kashmiris, Mr Venkatesh, Can India even be regarded as a civilized?

Venkatesh Rao has an article series that compares startup entrepreneurs with historical economic shifts.

Venkatesh Rao wrote an excellent piece on this 'baby talk'; internet classic.