Better Use of Time
Here are 4 ways in which you can make better use of your time.
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CoHid
Two days ago, I was reminded of a Medium post I had read in the early days of the pandemic. One of the interesting things about it, was that the author attempted to understand and explain how the Covid-19 virus might be acting; and therefore, what might be working as a line of treatment, and…
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Design Thinking | Human Behaviour | Life or something like it | Management Mumblings | The known unknown
Don’t Worry, Nothing’ll Happen
What is common between the 2007-08 global financial meltdown and the Covid-19 crisis?
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Heroes | In memoriam | Inspire
In Memoriam: Mr. Ramesh C Sarin
One of my mentors, Mr. Ramesh C. Sarin passed away on the 10th of April this year. He was already long retired when I first met him. And he had this rare, dignified personality that reflected a wonderful blend of an unimaginably impressive corporate journey that he had had; and plenty of humility and…
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Design Thinking | Human Behaviour | Improve | India | Wheels
Life is a Highway
India – More highways or Better National & Public Transport? This is an email I had sent to our Minister for Road Transport & Highways in January this year. Of course I am still optimistic (or delusional) enough to hope for a response or an opportunity to further discuss this topic. Either way, I…
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The Next Educational Diversion from our normal human behaviour
In my book, I briefly discussed the topic of quality in the world of innovation and automation. My view was that through the quality revolution in the US and Japan and then other parts of the world, logically back then, someone visualizing the year 2021 might have assumed a world where everyone has quality integrated…
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin, Bit(e)coin I’ll start by saying that I clearly don’t know much about cryptocurrency. I’ll also add that it would be incredibly beneficial to have a global currency that works securely without the need for intermediaries and their resulting transaction fees. However, I find bitcoin a bit concerning, and here are my thoughts…
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Segway
With the stopping of production of Segways last year, but its more affordable robotic startup Ninebot doing well, one wonders if affordability must be integral to the success of a business depending on the business model and whom it aims to cater to.
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How much Attention do you pay to Detail?
The sculpture of Moses by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti shows an inspiring and incredible attention to detail.
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The Paradox of Colour Choices
Many of us are familiar with the paradox of choice, whether or not we have heard of the phrase itself. The paradox of choice, is our tendency to believe that more options or variants or choices in a given situation or purchase event is a good thing. After all, who wouldn’t want more flavours in…
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Between Gender Pronouns and Spelling People’s Names
I had been seeing a lot of social media profiles with a ‘He/Him’ or ‘She/Her’ mentioned alongside the name, but didn’t completely understand the purpose. A close friend recently explained them as gender pronouns. Given in particular the LGBTQ+ community, the world needs to become increasingly sensitive to the different gender pronouns. Affixing it to…
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Heroes | In memoriam | India
Rest in Peace, Dr. Kohli
Dr. Faqir Chand Kohli passed away today at the age of 96. Immortals like him will never be forgotten.
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Towards a Better Mask – 3
An internal project under Rattl has been to try create a better mask for the (Covid) times. This is post #3.
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Towards a Better Mask – 2
CrystalPlanet: An internal project under Rattl has been to try create a better mask for the (Covid) times. This one was part experiment, part fun, always having been fascinated with the idea of using car components for things.
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Dr Jagadish Rai – A Hero who stood between us and the virus
My friend’s father, Dr. Jagadish Rai, a 70-year old obstetrician and general practitioner passed away recently.