There are only two industries that call its customers users – illegal drugs and software…. A powerful statement from an equally powerful documentary – the social dilemma (TSD) – now playing on Netflix. You have heard the adage – if you are not paying for a product – you are the product. TSD goes a …
Read part 1 – Miles to go – here… So, what lies ahead? Before we get to that, a question for you. How many of you ‘know’ your grandfather? By know, I mean what he was all about. His daily life, his joys, the challenges he encountered, his friends, colleagues…let me put it this way. …
And so we finished the second book of the Panchatantra – Mitra Samprāpti. With it, comes a new layout to the website. A few tucks here, a few nips there, and hey and pesto…you cannot find anything anymore:| If that’s how you feel, then do excuse me while I complete the mammoth exercise of collating …
Work hard…or work joyfully? I read an insightful blog by Paul Graham a few years back – it was about “How to do what you love.” Paul says that when growing up, “life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the …
How ‘unbreakable’ are you? I’ve been watching this sitcom on Netflix – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. For those who haven’t watched it, UKS is about a girl who goes about her life after being rescued from a doomsday cult. Although she pretty much received a raw deal for a larger part of her life, Kimmy refuses …
One year on, the feeling lingers… Winning is not everything, it is how one conducts oneself in defeat that matters. The biggest scientists, the leader of over 1 billion people – are humans after all. And sometimes, it is more important to feel human, than to keep it all inside and cry. A leader is …
So when is the tech bubble going to burst? This year has been the one of the worst on record, with GDPs across the board plunging, not dipping. Yet the tech mania seems to continue – the latest entrant being Ant Financial. For those who lived through the Dotcom boom of 1999, and it’s subsequent …
How often do you change your passwords? Do you change them at all? Was eating breakfast this morning, and got a notification from the bank that AED 100 had been deducted for an OSN payment. I don’t have OSN…and so called the bank now, disputed the transaction, and blocked my card. In the meantime, logged …
How difficult is banking nowadays? With all the fintech floating around, I would assume it should have gotten better by now. Instead, we still have the countless paper forms to fill, endless days to wait (a month for an account!), hardly any business banking facilities for 3 years, and excessive charges. Where is that promise …
What are your pain points? Let’s touch base and leverage synergies on this topic… Sounds familiar? While I did have such ‘pain points’ before, they seem to have magnified in the COVID era of prolonged voice calls. Maybe I’m just noticing them more, since I don’t have a good cup of coffee to compensate:) Why …
