Category: General Thinking

  • Rich get richer

    While the poor get poorer. Some countries and regions are currently under lockdown. Others are perhaps open to business. In both cases, travel and visits outside have been limited severely due to fear. Many businesses, such as retail and restaurants have been hit and have no hope of recovering anytime soon. This has immediate implications…

  • Efficient businesses will perish

    Some of the most efficient businesses are the ones that are being forced to swallow the largest losses today. Nasim Taleb in his book ‘Anti-fragile’ talks about systems that can withstand a black swan event. A once in a lifetime shock that can be hard to predict and overcome. Capitalism promotes profiting at all costs.…

  • COVID – What the numbers reveal

    COVID is a virus that has affected 0.1% of the world population. It is highly contagious and has been able to circumnavigate the globe.  On the surface – the above graphs make two things obvious : More people are being affected by COVID than before Fewer people are dying due to COVID than before The…

  • On Faith

    It is 2015, the economy is doing well. People are doing well and jobs are being created. Investors see the great potential and are willing to take bigger risks and invest in those who can find an appropriate opportunity. These are good times to be in. Entrepreneurs who ventured out during these times faced some…

  • AI and Jobs

    Most jobs that you see around the world monetise a specific knowledge that a person possesses. An accountant knows to account and you pay him/her to do it. This knowledge is transferable, the work is pretty repetitive and can be easily turned into an algorithm. Do you know the kind of knowledge that is hardest…

  • Facebook – Truth and Lies

    Let us say I love conspiracy theories surrounding Aliens. I am scrolling through Facebook and I see an article mentioning the existence of aliens and I click on it. Facebook will make a note that this is something that generated “Engagement”. Then it will over a course of time show me another and if I…

  • HR textbooks will be re-written

    I was recently talking with one of our members about the HR business. He was talking about how recruitment is going to don a different avatar. In a work from home world, recruitment will be truly global and not defined by boundaries. A lot of their clients were closing on resources in India and hiring…

  • The Disruption of Travel

    Travel is one of those industries that will change forever never to return to anything like what it used to be.  For most people when they think travel, they think of taking a vacation at a beach or mountain destination. A large portion of travel is a result of business travel. It is another thing…

  • 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…