Form or Function?
Form or Function? How about Form and Function? The eternal fight between form and function. Between show and effectiveness. Between being followed by a herd with questionable loyalty, and walking with a small group with…
Category: Human Behaviour
Amazon Go, This is How You Could Go
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Amazon Go concept. The cashier-free, and hopefully hassle-free grocery store. The news did seem to receive a disproportionate amount of public interest. Sources: 1 - link, 2 -…
India’s Roads and Bottlenecks
India's Roads and Bottlenecks Bottlenecks and traffic jams on the streets. Are they an unavoidable phenomenon, or something we caused or created? Same with the lack of lane discipline in Indian drivers. Are drivers always…
Phone of Reference
Phone of Reference Last year, Mumbai's traffic police enforced a ban on cellphone use while driving. It was backed by a fairly high fine. They even went a step further and banned the use of…
Recruiting in The Future
Image: source Recruiting in The Future For the longest time, there were distinct industries, and reasonably well defined job roles. And of course, an education system that did a brilliant batch-processing job of creating products people, that fit…
Now You Fool Me
Now You Fool Me "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." Whoever said that,…
Sewage Popsicles
Sewage Popsicles Some Taiwanese art students recently created ice popsicles made purely out of sewage water. And the 100 varieties they showcased, reflects exactly how clean we've made our water bodies. With all due credit…
B-schools, MBA grads & Their Priorities
Many b-schools in India are tilting less toward business, management, and ethics; more toward finishing skills. With a strong (and often desperate) focus on placements, they go an extra mile to add superficiality to students. From a scary…
Stop Glorifying terror
The world governments need to stop glorifying terror outfits. For starters, irrespective of what those terror groups might call themselves, what if victim countries gave them shameful and cowardly names. That way, the citizens wouldn't…
Did You Fire the Boss?
Did You Fire the Boss? Image: source Boss stormed to my desk, shouting, "it's the fifth time you're late to work this week. What's the meaning of this?" I, obviously surprised and confused, replied, "that... it's finally Friday?!"…
B2B and B2C Customers
Image: source B2B and B2C Customers For the longest time, Retail, or Business-to-Consumer (B2C) 'customers' have been accustomed to, and driven by, fads, hype, distorted facts and price wars, to influence their buying choices. Busines-to-Business…
Tata Sky
Image: source This is a heads-up for Tata Sky satellite television provider customers. Here's something Tata Sky has been doing as standard procedure, that I find questionable. If you're subscribed to an annual plan, and say you…
Is A Bot After Your Job?
Image: Robin Williams in the Bicentennial Man Yuval Noah Harari paints an interesting and arguably grim picture of the future, in his book Homo Deus. He runs through possible ways in which the world and we humans…
Points of View – Life, Work and Religion
Benjamin Franklin | Image: source How open or rigid, would you say your views and beliefs are? Here's an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, in which he mentions the following interaction with someone: I was acquainted…
Illusions and Delusions
Imran Khan is a decent actor. Delhi Belly was probably the best of the lot he has churned out. Then there's Babita Kumari. A Silver medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Then a Bronze medalist…