Should you publicly express an opinion that is at odds with the prevailing standards of political correctness? In this article, I seek answers to questions like: - If you self-censor on social media platforms, are you still being authentic? - Are you being authentic if you’re complying with what’s politically correct? - Is there no middle ground between authenticity and political correctness? If you ever held back from expressing an opinion online, this is for you.
Whom are you writing for? Humans or machines
Today, the writing craft is facing a kind of machine pincer attack: AI tools dumb the writing to an extent it’s high on patterns, low on substance; and SEO gods that reward this very writing type and incentivize more of it.
Baptists and Bootleggers
While baptists and bootleggers appear to be enemies, they are actually bedfellows in the regulatory ecosystem. Baptists fight for an alcohol ban on Sundays. But this only helps bootleggers who get the entire market for themselves on Sundays.
The Future of Reading
The same writing appears dramatically different when you shift your gaze from a printed copy to a digital screen.
What I Learned from Peter Drucker
I write about Peter Drucker's ideas that influenced me the most. I begin with his idea that people learn either by reading or listening (and seldom both).
Is your Cloud Provider the Hotel California?
“You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!" So go the lyrics of the Eagle’s 1977 song, ‘Hotel California’. In many ways, cloud computing is this very hotel.
Stories We Tell Ourselves
The times were great in your youth, not because the times were great, but because you were young.
My co-authored Op-ed on Outlook
Pranay Kotasthane and I co-authored an open on why COMPASSION, not empathy, must guide Public Policy. Here's the link to the op-ed. ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jagdish Chandra Asthana Could Have Been a Good Policy Analyst A cliche you’ll hear often is that policymaking should be empathetic. And like many such pronouncements, it is a wrong one.... Continue Reading →
Are You a Hedgehog or a Fox?
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” ~ Greek poet Archilochus
The Rise of the Intangible Economy
The marginal costs for building the 10th and 1000th copy of a software is trivial. The only cost involved is towards creating the 1st copy.
Musings by Madhav 