This term of rule in new Andhra Pradesh is turning out to be quite successful already. Barely a year since taking over, CBN and his cabinet are on a spree of development with people’s lives showing improvements instantly. Be it the little things like fixing hundreds of thousands of miles of roads, reducing power outages…
Another amusing example of ad agencies trying to fool people using statistics. ( I get it, kinda part of the job). Pepsi are trying to make their case that their product is preferred to Coke using a blind tasting test. In theory its a good play, but the problem here is, at 55% in a…
Let’s admit it, Twitter was always a ticking time-bomb for most of us. In this age of instant outrage and cancel culture, we are only one tweet away from our personal and professional lives destroyed. What we may have said in the heat of the moment, a drunken “joke” could forever tarnish your image and…
I have always been a great fan of Michael Levitt’s book “Freakonomics”. In my early post-college years, it was one of the very few books which shocked my brain into looking at things in radically different perspectives. I have used that book as a guide post when faced with challenges in life and work, and…
We often hear stories about many once successful corporations losing their market positions, their customer loyalty and decline at a precipitous rate, eventually going bankrupt or being swallowed by one of their newer competitors. There could be many factors that may push companies towards this state of affairs. Sudden changes in consumer habits, emergence of…
I have had the pleasure of reading this seminal book by world chess champion Garry Kasparov. As the name makes it obvious, this book was mainly about Kasparov’s two matches with IBM Deep Blue supercomputer. As the reigning world champion at the time, Kasparov was the man to beat for intelligent machines to prove that…
The new bank charges announced by banking sector this week go against PM Modi’s digital economy dreams. I have no idea what the Reserve bank was thinking when it allowed these charges. Charging users by transactions, just to deposit and withdraw your own money is surely going to force people away from banks and save…
Ok, here is the deal. The property council Sydney has started an advertising blitz to pressure the government into leaving their tax policy intact in terms of negative gearing. The council clearly has a vested interest in a flourishing property market. They want people buying and selling property so they can keep making a handsome…
