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Mostly Harmless is my attempt to make sense of a complex world. Join me in exploring technology, culture, books, and the challenges of making sense of a world in flux.

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Rushi Luhar in MOSTLY HARMLESS

Feb 20, 2014

The WhatsApp acquisition

The water-cooler was abuzz this morning with news of Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, a tiny company. With the claimed 400 million users that WhatsApp brings to Facebook, the numbers involve value each user at $40. That is an astonishing amount of money for a service…

Rushi Luhar in MOSTLY HARMLESS

Nov 24, 2012

Working Effectively In Multi-Cultural Teams: Email and Teleconferences

I was born in India but moved to The Netherlands to finish high school. I went to University in England and have worked in London and Tokyo since then. I have spent probably more time than most in a state of…

Rushi Luhar in MOSTLY HARMLESS

Dec 10, 2010

Propaganda in the age of Wikileaks

Gloria Origgi, in Edge 335 states that we are leaving the information age behind and are entering a reputation age. She posits that one of the reasons for the influence Wikileaks wields in current political and social discourse is due to powerful, and reputed media…

Rushi Luhar in MOSTLY HARMLESS

Nov 8, 2010

Meetings

I wonder if there is a simple and straightforward formula which determines the value proposition of having a meeting at work. Corporations love looking at the bottom line. Cost saving measures abound in these economically straightened times. Travel budgets are slashed, weary executives travel coach class and…

Rushi Luhar in MOSTLY HARMLESS

Sep 13, 2010

Echo Chamber

Does anybody even remember the term “Information Superhighway” any more? Do you remember a pre-global warming, pre-divorce, skinny Al Gore and his dubious claims on inventing the Internet? We were told about having the world’s knowledge at our finger tips. The Internet would free information and provide…