Author: Vivek Srinivasan

  • COVID could save IoT

    COVID could end up being the renaissance of IoT I had talked at one of the events a couple of years ago about the lack of adoption of IoT. At the event, we were discussing the interfacing. For a lot of us who used a computer before 1995, our introduction to computers was through the…

  • Hidden Cost of COVID

    I have a near and dear one who would probably be helped a great deal by having the entire range of healthcare solutions being made available. But due to age and fear of contracting COVID, the individual has not visited the hospital for over a month now despite symptoms.  According to WHO Cardiovascular diseases are…

  • Canada – Money – Election | Learning by Proxy

    Every Saturday, I publish this series called ‘Learning by Proxy’. It is a capsule of some of the stuff that I found interesting over the week along with some context to it. I hope you enjoy it. Follow Up I had mentioned last week that the government is turning against its people and in the…

  • Disruption of Education

    Education has always had a problem At the outset of the Industrial Revolution, there was a terrible labour shortage. To meet the labour needs, factory owners started recruiting kids and putting them to work. Kids being subjected to such hard work, foul language, violent accidents and sexual abuse were considered a social problem.  As the…

  • Inflation in the times of COVID

    When people get out of the lockdown in India and get back to work/shopping, the one noticeable change that they are going to find is in the prices.  All the discounts have disappeared!  A meal that I would cost me about Rs. 300 now costs me Rs. 550. The cab ride which I would have…

  • Government – #MakeInIndia – Cars | Learning by Proxy

    Every Saturday, I publish this series called ‘Learning by Proxy’. It is a capsule of some of the stuff that I found interesting over the week along with some context to it. I hope you enjoy it. Politics When your government turns against you… Center raises duty on Petrol by Rs. 10 and Diesel by…

  • Did you know? Memory

    Have you made a checklist of things to be done and then only a few minutes or hours later forgotten most of it? Just as computers have RAM and hard drive the human mind has two storage repositories. When we sleep the memories from the day are moved to permanent memory from the hippocampus to…

  • Disruption of Real Estate

    Real Estate will perhaps be the worst-hit industry in the aftermath of this pandemic. Several industries are changing and one does not know what the future looks like. None is going to be as badly disrupted as Real Estate.  Structure Real Estate is often classified into two categories – Commercial and Residential. Demand for commercial…

  • Flat Curve – Recession – VC | Learning by Proxy

    Every Saturday, I publish this series called ‘Learning by Proxy’. It is a capsule of some of the stuff that I found interesting over the week along with some context to it. I hope you enjoy it. Politics It is flattening stupid! This or many versions of this graph were used to explain what flattening…

  • Did you know? Sleep

    There are fundamentally three different kinds of sleepers amongst humans. The morning larks – These are people who like to go to bed early and wake up early as well. They like to sleep (9 -5) The Night Owls – The late nighters who like to sit up the whole night and go to bed…