I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
“In Cloud Computing, women make up 14% of the workforce; in Engineering, 20%; and in Data and AI, 32%” Gender gaps are more likely in sectors that require disruptive technical skills. What that implies is that even as employers are accelerating their digitalization agenda and automation of jobs, post COVID, there are severe gender gaps …
World Economic Forum – Global Gender Gap report 2021 Read More »
Can the post COVID world address income inequality in supercities? There are three trends that the a16z report addresses in this respect – albeit from a US lens #1Supercities and the Workforce — and how it ties to inequality. Think cities such as San Francisco. Or in India – Bangalore. Think about the impact of …
Can the post COVID world address Income Inequality in super cities ? Read More »
How did individuality become a feature and not a bug?“The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more than $500,000 a year from reader subscriptions” “The age of creator economy is upon us. No longer just happy endorsing other brands, creators and influencers are monetizing their huge social media following by launching products—from …
How did individuality become a feature and not a bug? Read More »
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality …
The End of Average – How to succeed in a world that values sameness Read More »
What are the Top Jobs that are Likely to Suffer Most in 2021 Due to COVID-19Glassdoor released a Workplace trends report 2021 yesterdayWill COVID-19 have a lasting impact on hiring and workplace culture in 2021 and beyond?One of the trends they identified – The COVID-19 recession is probably over, but these jobs may never return“As …
Glassdoor Workplace report – Top Jobs that are Likely to Suffer Most in 2021 Read More »
The parable of horse shit In 1800s, cities like NY relied on thousands of horses to heave carts, cabins et all through the streets. The horse drawn double decker buses were quite popular With the horses came manure – and lots of it. A healthy horse produced manure equivalent to a 2 year old child. …
How fast is 5G? With 3G, it takes forty-five minutes to download a high-definition movie. 4G shrinks that to twenty-one seconds. But 5G? It takes longer to read this sentence than it takes to download that movie. In his latest book, Peter Diamandis, calls out 5G as one of the converging technologies that can disrupt …
“If our long term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds” – Carl Sagan It is inescapable as the laws of physics that humanity will one day confront some type of extinction-level event. If we scan all life-forms that have ever existed on the Earth …
“How do we distribute wealth in a world where humans do not work?” There is a lot of buzz around our future. Mankind’s future. On Singularity. On AI. On misinformation around AI. The hype around Deep Learning. On Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the arguments for and against it. And most importantly on the anxiety …
On the Future of Work and How Machines aren’t necessarily destroying it Read More »