Story of two photocopier storesPhoto copies (still known as Xerox in many places) and print outs were once a very good business, as more and more paperless processes came…Jun 25, 2021161Jun 25, 2021161
Menace of asking for phone numbers everywhereA recent annoying trend is asking for phone numbers everywhere even if it is for having a tea. I was once refused a sale in one of the…Apr 19, 202191Apr 19, 202191
A learning tool should encourage a habitI have tried learning through various online platforms, many of them say it is self paced learning or make it such a way that you attend…Mar 13, 20215Mar 13, 20215
Quality Control vs Quality AssuranceA lot has been discussed about QC and QA but the way I use it to explain to people is to use a story I read in my school days. The story…Feb 22, 2021211Feb 22, 2021211
Published inSocial ClubLetter of the lawI recently went to a public sector bank for some account related work. I was stumped by how behind they were in operational stuff compared…Oct 13, 20202Oct 13, 20202
Title inflation is bad for everyoneIn some professional settings, when I had to meet new people; often during the greeting people say “Hi, I am ABC and I am the << insert…Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020
Why sports persons don’t use frameworks or certificationsMS Dhoni recently retired from cricket. He was one of the few sportspersons who demonstrated that concentrating on the basics of all…Aug 19, 202017Aug 19, 202017
2020 wifi problemsI have been taking conference calls using wifi when I had a subscription of a 256kbps connection. Before smart phones, I was the only one…Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020
Will new technologies snatch jobs away?New technologies mostly aim at improving efficiency mostly by automation, in many cases of disruption they create jobs for people not even…Jul 28, 202051Jul 28, 202051
You 3.0I recently got a chance to read this book You 3.0 by Anand Tamboli and Amit Dangle. The thing that stood out for me in this book was the…Jul 19, 202074Jul 19, 202074
What if Wright brothers did not invent airplanes?Would we still have aeroplanes if Wright brothers were not able to invent it? The answer is yes, someone else would have made the…Jul 7, 2020Jul 7, 2020
RWAs will give an idea how policy makers will behaveFor many years I have been living on rent often in flats with Residents Welfare Association (RWA). If we observe closely how these…Jun 26, 2020Jun 26, 2020
Is it ambiguous or confusing?The houses in my home town were built such a way that they had 2–3 entry points and all homes within the compound will leave their doors…Jun 25, 2020Jun 25, 2020
Why is nostalgia so special?Many movies paint nostalgia as gone great days, golden period in one’s life. But in reality barring a few instances we may be well off…Jun 24, 20201Jun 24, 20201
Shyness vs IntroversionI have often encountered people saying to newbies ‘you are an introvert, you need to be more openly mingling if you are to sustain your…Jun 23, 20201Jun 23, 20201
Discipline is perceived to be much harder than suffering ill effects of indisciplined workI was very surprised when I moved to ThoughtWorks to see the kind of workload people were able to handle. What used to be done by a 40…Jun 22, 2020Jun 22, 2020
In the end it is down to pattern recognitionWe were playing a game of reading faraway writings in our team. We found that one of our team members was not able to read what was…Jun 19, 2020Jun 19, 2020
It will happen as expectedWhen we hosted the first XConf at ThoughtWorks, one of the first few sessions we had was about Pygmalion effect. In short, the talk was…Jun 18, 2020Jun 18, 2020
Uncle points and ruinsA man lives with a small and happy family in a remote mountainous region. He moved to an even more remote place so that it is safe from…Jun 17, 2020Jun 17, 2020
Rock, paper, scissors game with performanceWhen commercial airplanes were getting faster and faster it was becoming real that everyone will be travelling in supersonic speeds across…Jun 16, 2020Jun 16, 2020
