Author: Vivek Srinivasan

  • Whether we can weather the Weather | Learning by Proxy

    Usually, weather updates are for the end but I guess we need to start this one with some updates. If we had left it to our forefathers they would have just thought that the gods are angry with us. Unfortunately, we cannot brush this one away that easily. Climate Change is real and it is…

  • Chance and Life

    The lore goes – when Edison created the light bulb he said “I did not fail a thousand times, I just found a thousand ways how not to make a light bulb.” Now, think about that for a minute. If you tried to do something a thousand times. It shows determination but it also shows…

  • Chinese Suicide | Learning by Proxy

    Every great empire that has ever existed in the world has eventually fallen prey to the ego of one man who was handed a fully formed country. The one thing that we can be certain of is that history repeats itself. China earned its place in the world through the sacrifice of billions. That sacrifice…

  • Burn your Ship

    The story Hernán Cortéz is often cited by many as an act of bravery and courage.  He left on an expedition to South America and upon arrival at Mexico, the first thing that he did was to ask his crew to burn the ships. There was going to be only one way out – Victory!…

  • US Jobs | Learning by Proxy

    Life is filled with dichotomies. One of the dichotomies facing American businesses right now is the high unemployment rate coupled with the inability to find workers. One would assume that if there were jobs on offer, people would come out looking for work. That has not happened. US Jobs Donald Trump had presided over the…

  • Hard Work

    is for fools! In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. ~ Proverbs 14:23 Americans did not invent capitalism. It was around 2000 years before the country even came into being as evidenced above. The Americans perfected it. There is a myth that is at the heart of capitalism; the…

  • Philanthropy | Learning by Proxy

    When you hear the word Philanthropy, you conjure up images of generous people with buckets full of money hurling their money at hoards of poor people. The truth is far from that. Often they are giving away little to nothing and what they do give is more than recovered through the access that they are…

  • To be good…

    You have to be willing to be bad first… When I started writing this blog, I did, because there were those who told me that I spoke well and I should probably write. First of all, speaking and writing are two incredibly different skill. As much as singing and dancing are. Just because you are…

  • Techocalypse | Learning by Proxy

    Learning by Proxy is a weekly newsletter that covers things happening around the world, along with some context that helps you understand it better. This is the 65th edition of the newsletter. Technology regulation is becoming a minefield of complications. While the internet started out in America but its regulation started in Europe. Finally, the…

  • Discernable Difference

    This blog will meander before it arrives at its point. Please play along. When you see an image on a computer, it is produced by lighting up individual dots on the screen with a colour corresponding to its position. We call these dots pixels. In the image above, the first image is 14 pixels per…