Author: Vivek Srinivasan

  • Bitcoin is a bubble – I will tell you why

    Humans are considered rational beings. Every once in a while greed and exuberance trumps rationale we end up with a Bubble. Bitcoin is a bubble and it will fall precipitously. Here’s why… Some Economics Value of any product is arrived at through a process that matches demand and supply. If there is a lot of…

  • Knowledge fuels Ego

    As humankind evolved, so did our curiosity. Curiosity led us to question. The process of answering any question often begins from what we already know. The trouble with most things we know is that, every one of those things are based on certain assumptions. Knowledge is often passed on in the form of frameworks. This…

  • MVP Testing

    Most entrepreneurs start with a problem statement. They wish to make money by solving the problem that people are facing. Building a product can be a long, challenging and expensive task. Nobody wants to be undertaking the effort with no certainty of whether or not the product would be accepted by the market. In order…

  • Did you know? – Sound

    Why do you hear a thunderclap when the sound barrier is broken? If you throw a ball at 10 Km/hr when stationary, the ball will begin travelling at 10 Km/hr, as it travels through air friction will slow it and it will come to a halt eventually. Let us say you were travelling in a…

  • Did you know? – Mesmerised

    Anton Franz Mesmer was a German physician in the 18th Century experimenting with magnets to cure maladies. He began by using magnets and soon discovered that he did not even need them. He referred to his approach to curing as Animal Magnetism. Nobody at the time understood what was happening. In the 19th Century one…

  • Did you know? – Banana

    Almost half of all bananas grown in the world come from the same tree. The Cavendish. Cavendish does not have seeds and hence every tree is graft of another plant. So all of the Cavendish trees are the same tree being regrown. Half the world eats Banana’s coming from the same tree!

  • Did you know? – Oxygenation

    I keep learning random stuff, here and there. I never document these things although they might contribute to an interesting read. I also have a writing problem. It takes me a lot of time to think through things and condense it into a blog AND I am mightily indisciplined. So for the benefit of other…

  • Subtlety

    Subtle changes have the power of making a huge difference. People don’t realise it at the time, but it does. To Illustrate: Take a point and draw a line. Now take a 1 degree deflection from the starting point and draw another line. Initially the paths of both lines seem similar but as you go…

  • Rationality and Randomness

    When you look up at the sky in the night, you see constellations. Constellations are human inventions, an attempt to ascribe pattern to a random gathering of stars. Why do we do that? The human brain is tuned to find patterns, it is not tuned to understand the concept of randomness. When you find something…

  • First Times

    One of the things that is true about human nature is that our ability to face a situation improves if we have  faced such a situation already. The first time you change your job, you find the transition a lot harder than thereafter. If a family has had a case of cancer once, their ability…