Episodes

  • News sources are poor at building trust
    Jun 11 2023
    This episode is also available as a blog post: http://rant.vpalepu.com/2023/01/02/news-sources-are-poor-at-building-trust/
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    5 mins
  • Cantonments and Campuses
    Dec 17 2022

    Why do army cantonments look like 18th century Britain? What does that even mean? What works about them? What can we learn from them? Have army campuses influenced corporate and college campuses? In a long rant that is more of a discussion I got together with an old friend from college to chat about army cantonments in India and how they remind him of 18th century Britain.

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    47 mins
  • Open source is enabling walled gardens in technology
    Dec 4 2022

    This episode is also available as a blog post: https://winterrant.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/open-source-is-enabling-walled-gardens-in-technology/

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    2 mins
  • Give me an E.V.; spare me the software updates
    Dec 1 2022
    This episode is also available as a blog post: https://winterrant.wordpress.com/2022/12/01/give-me-an-ev-spare-me-the-software-updates/
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    3 mins
  • Comic book heroes and their dead dads - Part 2
    Nov 29 2022

    This episode is also available as a blog post: https://winterrant.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/comic-book-heroes-and-their-dead-dads-part-2/

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    2 mins
  • Dads of most comic book heroes end up dead
    Nov 29 2022

    This episode is also available as a blog post: https://winterrant.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/dads-of-most-comic-book-heroes-end-up-dead/

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    2 mins
  • Go on, tell me how “kids fall ill all the time.”
    Nov 28 2022

    This episode is also available as a blog post: https://winterrant.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/go-on-tell-me-how-kids-fall-ill-all-the-time/

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    2 mins
  • Clippy is a cultural success story for Microsoft
    Nov 28 2022
    This episode is also available as a blog post: https://winterrant.wordpress.com/2022/11/18/clippy-is-a-cultural-success-story-for-microsoft/
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    1 min