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·2 days ago

Changing face of geo-politics

In February 2022, the world was recovering from the third wave of COVID. The American media could not stop saying, Putin was about to attack Ukraine. They knew it was going to happen. They knew for certain. How? At the June 2021 Brussels summit, NATO leaders reiterated the decision taken…

Economy

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Changing face of geo-politics
Changing face of geo-politics

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·6 days ago

Looking for the road to Avoid

Alice in Wonderland and the Wizards of Oz are greater sources of philosophy than any book on philosophy ever written. That kind of fiction has the ability to highlight the ridiculousness of the way we choose to live our lives. In a similar vein, I often find that animated movies…

Life

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Looking for the road to Avoid
Looking for the road to Avoid

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·Jun 24

The multiplier problem of Open Source

What do the programmers who earn six-figure salaries at the top tech companies do? You would be forgiven for assuming that they are inventing and creating new code that fundamentally alters the fabric of the web. Most of them spend their time copy-pasting and then customising open-source code or code…

Software

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The multiplier problem of Open Source
The multiplier problem of Open Source

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·Jun 21

Education

In today’s world, if the question is one of accessing instructions to learn a particular subject, there would be no need to go to school. There are so many sources through which most of it can be accessed for free. Schools provide something far richer. Teachers must play a much…

Education

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Education
Education

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·Jun 17

How we work is changing

Humans are built to have a biphasic sleep routine. Normally, the two phases of sleep are at night and in the afternoon. You feel sleepy after lunch not because you are lazy but because it is what humans did for thousands of years. …

Work

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How we work is changing
How we work is changing

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·Jun 10

The Dichotomy that is India

If you have watched a plane make a turn you would have noticed that the plane never turns at right angles. Velocity is a vector and when you try to change the direction of that vector the consequence is felt in another direction. This is described by the gyroscopic effect. …

India

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The Dichotomy that is India
The Dichotomy that is India

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·Jun 6

How to create a problem 101

Find a problem and solve it. This is the first advice given to anyone looking to start a startup. A student of history would know that every time man has tried to solve a problem; he a created a new one. Let me illustrate. 15 years ago in India, if…

Startup

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How to create a problem 101
How to create a problem 101

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·Jun 3

Building supply chains upside down

In 2019, under pressure from Trump, Apple broke ground to build a plant in Austin, Texas. No sooner had they set up the plant, they hit a roadblock. They were unable to manufacture the Mac because of a screw. They just could not source it in America. This brings me…

Supply Chain

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Building supply chains upside down
Building supply chains upside down

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·May 31

Taking for Granted

How many times have you called the power station on a normal day, just to tell them what a great job they have been doing? On the contrary, if there is no power, it would not take too long to call up the power station to find out what the…

Life

2 min read

Taking for Granted
Taking for Granted

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·May 27

Virus Virus Everywhere

I am currently reading this fascinating book called Genome by Matt Ridley. In the book, he writes, “the purpose of a gene is to provide the roadmap to manufacture proteins and the purpose of a protein is to make copies of genes.” DNA is a sequence of letters that are…

Virus

6 min read

Virus Virus Everywhere
Virus Virus Everywhere
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