Category: General Thinking

  • Did you know? Virus

    One of the most basic things that people are being pushed to do is to wash their hands. This is needed to kill the viruses. But how does that really happen? How to kill at Virus So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story:…

  • Travel Business – will it ever be the same again?

    I have always enjoyed travel and have visited quite a few nations and cities in my life. Not only that, but I have also myself been involved in the travel business and so it is close to my heart.  A vast majority of my travels have been for work and this is possibly reflective of…

  • Luck in Business

    There is a certain aspect of luck in business. No matter how well you understand the pains of your customer and how good you may be at finding a solution for your customer, there is still a degree of luck at play. This is because there are a lot of external factors that have a…

  • Beginning with trust

    There was an interesting conversation I had a few days ago. A startup founder called me and informed me that a large multi-national company had shown interest in their fledgeling product and wanted to deploy it. Before the deployment, they wanted to go through the entire product and understand how it works. He was concerned…

  • The right kind of friction

    Slide a muslin cloth past wet hands.  If your hand is too wet, the cloth gets wet as well and would let your hand easily slide past.  If your hand is dry then the cloth will easily slide past as well. But… If your hand is just a little wet, there is enough friction to…

  • How do you say it?

    Adam is a smart and intelligent boy. He has a great amount of interest in most things and wants to constantly learn. He is also known to be quite stubborn and at times, very envious. What do you think about Adam? Do you think he is likeable? Do you think you might want to spend…

  • Vision and Security

    A lot of great ideas have been dreamed up during vacations. It was a late night in Paris, and the challenge to find a taxi that caused Travis to dream up of Uber. There are countless stories students sitting in their dorm room who came up with the next big thing – Bill Gates and…

  • Trial and Error

    There is a reason that the Pyramids were built much before the Pythagoras Theorem was committed to paper or papyrus.  The modern education system makes you learn the theory first and then think of its application. In most cases, we even ignore the application completely. Those of you who learnt trigonometry in high school math,…

  • Building businesses around Habits

    If you are building a consumer business think habits. Every successful consumer business uses a fundamental insight into consumer behaviour to exploit the same and profit from it. Even if you ask a tea vendor by the roadside, he operates on great insight. He knows people have lunch between 1 PM and 2 PM. As…

  • Why we are wrong about AI

    Steve Jobs very famously said that computer will be the bicycle for the mind, or so he had hoped. Somewhere along the way, we moved away from using computers to support us. Today, we are moving towards making them do the entire thing. I often think about this bit from Dan Norman. People are flexible,…