What we’re reading, watching, and thinking about at Nuclei
Few interesting pieces our team came across in the last week.
Articles
- A McKinsey report on how traditional Telcos are facing existential questions, if they don’t move fast & forward during these digital times. I believe the same hold for every other traditional players across industries. — Ankur Joshi
Two main threats have already exposed the old way of doing business as quite vulnerable. The first, digital attackers, have taken over significant market share. The second threat is that over-the-top (OTT) players, such as WhatsApp, Apple’s FaceTime, and Tencent’s WeChat, are also growing quickly, which could decrease spending on traditional fixed and mobile communications services (landlines and mobile devices) by up to 36 percent, according to our research.
- A very fascinating read on how to build products and design interfaces for your parents — Sonal Sarkar
“Simple design” doesn’t mean less design. It means easy.
- Work smarter, not harder and enjoy your life, people interactions and activities — Rishikesh ct
Busyness is not a virtue, it’s an error in perspective. It’s easy to think that quantity of activities is quality.
- How a different sleep pattern, gave humans an evolutionary edge. Note: This is an hypothesis. — Sushanth Hegde
Humans are significant “evolutionary outliers.” We sleep less but spend about 10 percent more of our total sleep time in REM than expected. Human sleep is shorter and deeper — in other words, more efficient — than that of our closest relatives.
The finding supports a hypothesis proposed by the duo in 2015: Efficient sleep gave our hominin ancestors an evolutionary edge. By shortening total duration, hominins reduced their time as unconscious targets for predators, and added waking hours to complete essential tasks, like learning, securing resources and maintaining social bonds.
- An original paper by Maulik Jagnani on how quality of sleep and children’s education gets impacted due to lack of 2 time zones in India. You can find the original paper here. — Ankur Joshi
Books
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win — Ankur Joshi
One of the most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
Videos
We take nature for granted and with recent technological advances, easily forget how difficult exploration of unknown world was back then. It was down to few brave wo/men, their mental strength and perseverance to take up extremely challenging tasks and ability to bulldoze through deathly risky work, which enabled our society to explore the far reaches of the earth.
