“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.
Compassion vs. Empathy
Compassion requires you to rise above the dualities of victim and predator and look at the system that produces these classes.
Of Unearned Wisdom
“Beware of unearned wisdom.” - Carl Jung
Don’t Fix What’s Not Broken
“Change” is a magic word, whether in organizations or societies. In 1792, the French Revolutionaries created a new calendar and decimal time system to mark the dawn of the new Republican era. In the 18th edition of the newsletter, I dig into why this ‘scientific’ system isn’t still around. It’s a story of how tradition quietly reclaimed the lost ground.
Achieving More With Less
When done well, 20% of efforts can produce 80% of the results. But, in reality, the Pareto principle (the 80/20) is often more disproportionate.
The Tyranny of the Minority
Majority triumphs, they say. We must resist the tyranny of the majority, we’re told. But what if it’s a determined minority that actually calls the shots? Nassim Nicholas Taleb posits that an intransigent minority can almost always prevail over a flexible majority. His reasoning, though counterintuitive, is simple: “Someone with a peanut allergy will not... Continue Reading →
Musings by Madhav 