Search Engine algorithms, Social Media, Online news have all made buzzwords more popular than before. And that hurts serious innovation. Buzzword is a word or phrase, especially one connected with a particular subject, that has become fashionable and popular, and is used a lot in newspapers etc, as per Oxford…

The song Jerusalema was viral last year. Everyone at home tried to learn the addictive dance steps. How many took the effort to bother about the meaning of the song? Tourists spend billions going around the world clicking snaps and posting Instagram stories. How many bother with the story behind…

Humans took solace for quite sometime with an assertion that machines cant get creative. Will machines take over this frontier too? If we scan the creative pursuits that we come across in our daily lives, these include movies, fine arts, writing ( news, articles,stories), singing…. It was common perception that…

With smart phones, laptops, social media and the armies of attention engineers employed by the tech firms, we have willingly become digital slaves sacrificing our privacy and personal data to avail services and convenience online. Some of us have unfortunately seen our identities misused/abused, our financial data compromised and much…

In the recent Gamestop episode, there was a group of wallstreet firms who shorted the stock on one side, and the redditors who bet against that bet on the other. There was a third side. Being in that side is a skill worth cultivating. The third side did not care…

We ( humans) cut trees from earth, make paper out of it, add value to it and then run after it our whole lives!!! Imagine someone playing a video game. Inside the game, there are many characters,incidents, interactions , gains/losses, happiness/sorrows etc etc.Once the game is over, does it matter…

Driving and Swimming have always been considered the life saving skills. Risk taking needs to be added to this. If there is one skill that’s never taught in schools and colleges, it is taking and managing risks. Risk is always described as something scary that needs to be avoided and…

As more buying decisions are determined by ratings/reviews/stars, marketing is now about buying the opinion of the crowd. But how? In the early years of mobile, getting customers was easy and building product was difficult. Today its much easier to build products with global sourcing and cloud. Its much difficult…

When pharma companies look to create new molecules, tesla makes electric trucks, people create unconventional products and prototypes, the process is fraught with risk. Why bother? Just in the last 10 years, new business categories got created ( Smart phones, Electric vehicles, App stores, Social Networks…) making trillion dollar companies…