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  • What makes a great story?

    I had written a blog on the kinds of stories that every startup needs to have. So what makes for a great story? I am going to share some thoughts on what makes for great stories. The objective of a great story is to be viral and drive greater discovery. Whether that is amongst the…

  • Immigration, Power and Disney | Learning by Proxy

    There is a lot happening on this planet. Due to the attention that COVID-19 is getting, there are many things that politicians are able to get away with. When the dust settles all this will matter. This is the fourth edition of ‘Learning by Proxy’ Politics Using the distraction of COVID-19 as a cover, Pakistan…

  • Stories every startup needs

    In every organisation, there is folklore or stories that shape the culture of the company. These stories are very powerful because they remain with the organisation for a long time. Stories are remembered and they are self-propagating. Further, they have great power in shaping how future employees think about the organisation and the steps that…

  • Differences, Subprime and Drones | Learning by Proxy

    This is the third edition of the ‘Learning by Proxy’ series that I am writing. I have been fine-tuning what I write and I am providing a little more structure to this. I have always thought of myself living at the intersection of Business, Politics, Economics and Technology. So breaking this down by those topics.…

  • Positive Externality and CoronaVirus

    Positive Externality is a concept of economics which describes an unintended positive outcome of an action. For example, the Singapore government wanted to reduce pollution and started charging a fee to drive in the CBD. This resulted in the CBD becoming safer for older people wishing to walk there, which was a positive externality. I…

  • The rise of New York

    There is a really great visualisation of how the cases in America, which started out as a trickle and rose to unseen numbers. New York ended up with the largest number of cases at the end of it and has take the worst hit in the world. You can go ahead and open the file…

  • Bernie, Telemedicine and Force Majeure | Learning by Proxy

    Last week I had published the first of these blogs where I cover a large number of things that I read each week. I am now changing the name of the segment to ‘Learning by Proxy’. Learning by Proxy Deconstructing the uniqueness of SARS-COV-2. This virus has spread unlike any in recent history. This tweet…

  • Economy – after COVID

    Every economy in the world today has two types of income centres – Internal Consumption and External Consumption.  Internal consumption is all of the things bought and used by the people of your own country. External Consumption is all of the things that you sell to other countries because you are either really good at…

  • It is all testing stupid

    I have been following the number for more than 1 month now. I have watched the numbers take off in several countries as CoronaVirus peaks havoc across the globe. There are countries like South Korea and Japan that have been able to fight the disease quite well and then Germany which has managed to keep…

  • COVID-19 and the changing world | Learning by Proxy

    During a conversation a few weeks back, a friend suggested that I create a digest of things that one should be reading about. Since I read hundreds of blogs each day, it might be worth sharing some of the undercurrents that I notice. So I am starting this series called ‘You need to know this’.…

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