What costs US$ 168 to build? The human body, by some accounts. Actually, an episode in Nova, a science show on PBS, came up with this figure for the value of there fundamental components of the human body. Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry, in 2013, performed a similar exercise and came up with a figure …
The earth is tilted on it’s axis, and this is what gives rise to the seasons. This is the reason why we do not receive an equal amount of sunlight through the year. The sun “transits” between hemispheres – around the 16th of July it moves towards the southern hemisphere, and around the 14th of …
Ok, a lot of you messaged me yesterday. The general consensus was that blockchain and crypto are no more a mystery to them anymore. Yes, it isn’t like they became experts or something, but there was a mental block – a voice in their heads that said “I cannot understand this. It is too complicated.” …
Let me tell you a story. One day, a couple I know was having lunch with their friends who had come visiting after a long time. The couple had a boy named Keshava and their friends, also a couple, had a little girl who was playfully called Pitu. So Pitu comes along and says “Pappa, …
As I logged into LinkedIn a couple of days back, it gave me an option to create newsletters (and run them on a regular basis). The ever-curious me decided to have a go. And so I headed to Canva, made a banner, thought of a name (a bit of this…and a bit of that…) and …
Imagine a world without work. No seriously. Imagine a world where you do not have to work, where tech or AI or robotics or whatever takes care of everything and all you need to do is recreate. How would you derive meaning and from where? While this sounds like a very distant and unimaginable future, …
Yesterday I wrote about superheroes, both aspiring and reel. I forgot to mention a third category- the real. Yes they do exist. Not the silly Linkedin/Insta reels that speak about ‘not all superheroes wear capes’ and comprise emotion-evoking and boredom-provoking multiple-times copied attempts at garnering a few more likes. I’m speaking of the ones that …
I read this interesting article by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox in the Harvard Business Review. Titled “In praise of extreme moderation”, it speaks of the trend of workaholism being a badge of honor, and extremism is becoming the norm not only in our professional lives but increasingly in our personal lives as well. People take up sports and …
Don’t we see nostalgic posts of this kind every other day? On Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and oddly enough, even on LinkedIn. The kind which romanticizes the past and demonizes the present, and shudders at the thought of the future. I have done it too, and I don’t consider it wrong at all. After all, things …
Short answer – I don’t know. For that matter, neither do you. If we did, then a) the world would stop being fun and b) we would be rich beyond our imagination. The b) scenario is when you know what stocks hit what peaks and when etc etc. (just in case you were waiting for …
