Category: General Thinking

  • 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…

  • 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!

  • 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…

  • Murphy’s Law…

    states – Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Murphy did not come up with this. It was attributed to him. Either way, this is a pessimist’s way of looking at life. If fear dominates you, you think about the things that will go wrong and what you keep thinking about, often comes to…

  • Change

    Status Quo is a very powerful thing. Have you ever heard anyone tell you that they are enjoying the hunt for a new job? They might realise that a change is necessary and important; nevertheless they would not enjoy the process. There is a certain inertia in the way things are. Change implies overcoming that…

  • At 20

    The unrelenting nature of change and the rate of exposure that youngsters get today means that they are growing up much faster than we did back in the 90’s. When I look at it, I feel a little sad because ignorance is bliss and the children born today are being robbed of their ignorance much…

  • Jugaad – Not the best way…

    In India we have the habit of choosing short-cuts to doing things which we like to call ‘Jugaad’. Unfortunately, the word has been misconstrued to mean resourceful and has been promoted as the right way to doing thing. Jugaad is an inefficient way of doing something and in the long run detrimental to the organization.…