Category: Musings

• Never better or getting worse?

  If you listen to Steven Pinker, he’ll tell you the world has never been a better place: Some graphs track increases in good things: income, longevity, sustenance, safety, literacy, democracy, civil rights, leisure and happiness. Others show declines in bad things: poverty, infant mortality, famine, state-sponsored torture, capital punishment, war, homicides, lynchings and racist attitudes. […]

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  June 30, 2021

  Markets, Musings

• Stop Zuckerberg!

  This week’s edition of the Nonzero newsletter was quite interesting. It chronicles all the shenanigans of Mark Zuckerberg since he was at Harvard. The post paints Zuck almost as a modern-day Darth Vader. Of course, you might agree or disagree depending on your vantage point, and I don’t want to get into passing moral judgements […]

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  June 29, 2021

  Musings

  Polarization, Social media, Twitter

• Work from home: good, bad, or ugly?

  There was a lot of chatter about work from home last week. A lot of these were the same old debates about whether work from home is good or bad. Is work from home increasing productivity or hurting it?

  bebhuvan

  June 28, 2021

  Musings

  Remote work

• Trillion dollar problems

  Microsoft hit $2 trillion in marketcap a few days ago. There was a time when a trillion meant something, but it doesn’t seem so anymore. Microsoft and Apple now are worth over $2 trillion. It’s a silly comparison, but for context, the market cap of all listed companies on NSE is a little over $3 […]

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  June 25, 2021

  Musings