One of the favorite pastimes of my 4-year-old nephew is to paytm everyone. He wants to scan the QR code from mobile phone of every other person who appears in front of him. He has learnt to dance on the payment successful background music. While he and many other millennials/Gen Zs can’t imagine a world without real-time payments, the […]
The woman in this picture is my maternal grandmother Champa Devi (meaning Goddess of the aromatic Plumeria flower) . She got married at the age of 16 to a man who was: more than double her age. a father to 3 young boys- some of whom were close to her own age her late sister’s […]
A couple of educational institutions across the world have banned ChatGPT claiming that it will hamper learnings of students. I disagree. First and foremost, you can never ever put an effective technology ban on millenials and GenZ who are born with the internet. Secondly, I personally feel that the only skill ChatGpt or other AI […]
Ever wondered why some organizations move from being good to great to greater to greatest and then suddenly fail? The answer lies in the way these companies handle innovation. When an organization is in its early stages, emergence of new ideas are a norm and this is exactly what makes them successful. However, in the […]
Apparently, a Yale professor recently suggested that old people in Japan should just kill themselves (sic) to reduce the burden on their aging society. I read and processed this information against the backdrop of thinking about my parents, in-laws and other elders in my vicinity I deeply respect. The more I think about it, the […]