In 1840 Thomas Carlyle produced the Great Man theory, aimed at making a universal theory of what makes great leaders. He studied a large number of leaders and came up with a definitive theory of that time. It is fascinating to read about it with today’s context. A lot has changed ( it should now be calledContinue reading “Netflix, Waze, World Map, USA Debt and Ant Financial : The Week’s Most Interesting”
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Belarus, Federal Reserve, Covid Vaccine, Moskovitz and Abe: The Week’s Most Interesting
Philosophy has a deceptively simple concept about social decision making called the Veil of Ignorance. The concept in short talks about the approach to decision making, in choices that have large scale impact. The idea is that the decision maker makes decisions not knowing who he would be in the society. So for example if the personContinue reading “Belarus, Federal Reserve, Covid Vaccine, Moskovitz and Abe: The Week’s Most Interesting”
Pinduoduo, Revolut, Snaptravel, Big Mac and Kirana Tech: The Week’s Most Interesting
If you could sum up all the billions every time they would appear in newspapers, I think 2020 would show the highest sums (surprisingly). Somehow during COVID, at least according to me, people have realised it’s the new eye catcher. And Jio and Google have certainly helped. So today I try to jump on the bandwagon butContinue reading “Pinduoduo, Revolut, Snaptravel, Big Mac and Kirana Tech: The Week’s Most Interesting”
Frank Dodd, Pharma Czars, Tax Design, Frank Sinatra and Vaccines: The Week’s Most Interesting
This week was simply a continuation of everything we spoke about last week. The markets kept going up and so did protests. Bolsonaro ensured that Brazil’s forests were on a continuous track on deforestation, oil supply was down by almost 3 million barrels and Jio landed another investor. Do read about the points above. They tend not toContinue reading “Frank Dodd, Pharma Czars, Tax Design, Frank Sinatra and Vaccines: The Week’s Most Interesting”
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