HOV lanes and economics

I have long argued that economics and conditioning can explain most things in the world.

A great example of an economics concept applied is — HOV a.k.a carpool lanes. In US and several other countries, road and highway providers typically reserve one lane for…

World War III?

I began to share this article on Twitter, but couldn’t wrap my comments about this article within 140 characters. Caught in the web of local trivia and party politics, the media companies — both TV and print — fail to educate people on the long-term issues such as this one.

Bharathiar the Visionary

Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathiar joins the list of people who invariably figures in my blog posts once in a while — but every time I write about him, in fact every time I think about him, the quality that first comes to my mind is valor. He had such ungiving audacity when he dreamt, he…

USPS and its survival

The USPS is United States’ postal service with a very bold statement — while private sector enterprises (read: the big banks) are using taxpayers’ money to recover from the crisis they created, USPS, though a public enterprise, has been self-sufficient most of its time — funding its…

Executive Mistakes

I felt the CEO of NetFlix attempted to make a connection with his customers in a personal sort of way, when he sent that letter of apology with some brutally-honest-sounding words in the message. Not long ago, if you remember, the CEO of Nokia sent another brutally direct message to his…

Ecosystems at War

When the number of cell-phone subscribers in India surpassed the fixed-line subscribers, we defined it as a mobile revolution, appropriately so. But it limited itself mostly to making and receiving phone calls. What the US and much of the developed world is now going through is the actual mobile…