Category: General Thinking

  • Push

    We all need ‘Push’ to get things done. If you have managed projects, you know what I am talking about. You could have managed just yourself or a team. There are many ways in which the push can arrive. You can have deadlines that make the push come through; you can create a fear of…

  • UberPool and Incentives

    If you were seeking to find a lot of people headed in similar directions, I would suppose ports of arrival would be the best place to find a lot of them. In an airport where thousands of people arrive the odds of finding 3 people who might be headed in the same direction would be…

  • Thinking

    Thinking is a double edged sword. I often advice entrepreneurs to think about what they plan to do. I also advice them to spend time thinking about their business rather than getting down to execution. Thought is a cheap simulation machine that is available to us. The more data you feed (talk to potential customers)…

  • When things fall apart…

    Hold it together. Often the difference between those who lead and those who follow is merely this. In life there will be instances when things would not go your way. We all operate on assumptions and it should come as no surprise that some of those assumptions turn out to be wrong. The more fundamental…

  • On Carrying On…

    In an experiment that was conducted in the 1960’s two dogs were placed in two separate cages. Each dog then received a series of electric shocks to their hind legs at the same time. The first dog’s cage was fitted with a pad which it could push with its nose and stop the electricity. The…

  • Prisoner

    Money Health Happiness Capability Relationships Friendships Respect Honor Recognition Passion Drive   We all crave some or all of these things in varying capacities. Almost none of us get all of it at the same time. Human tendency is to focus on what we have lost which makes us all bent towards loss aversion. If…

  • Tomorrow

    Our tomorrow is a result of the seeds we sow today. But we cannot know for a fact what our tomorrow will look like. We take steps today based on what we anticipate tomorrow; but that we know not. We make a payment on an e-commerce site because we expect them to deliver. What if…

  • How we see

    Self-driving cars are hard to do. Most of the engineering that is currently is focused on making the car see. Part of the reason for this is the world is actually built for you and I. Our roads are not designed with embedded sensors to help self-driving cars see. Its meant for us to see…

  • Causing Death

    Does not sound like a good thing to do. Also, works horribly if the business you are involved in is going to end up doing precisely that. And still the car industry thrives. When motor cars were first introduced, there were a large number of accidents that took place. In the entire state of Ohio…

  • Why the Electric Future will not deliver

    The future may well be electric, but it is not going to come be the way we may imagine it to be. We are busy designing and building a future where Lithium Ion batteries will dominate almost everything. The truth of the matter is that, the chart above tells a different story. There is limited…