Saturday, May 23, 2020

Pitching for a better pitch map lexicon

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Have you heard of the concept that it is words that give shape to thoughts? Without language, it's not just our communication that grind...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Mucking about with Capital and Capitalism

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I am writing this as of Mar 31st in 2020, just as the coronavirus crisis is about to peak in NYC. Surreal how this virus has brought this gr...
Monday, March 16, 2020

A Corona Timeline

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A semi-autobiographical account stretching from January to mid-March Detached disinterest. Something's up in China Ah yet another...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Bloglet series #2 - the one where I dream of plastic

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Why do all voice assistants have female voices? I was setting up a new Google Home device when it struck me that it's very sexist to h...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Bloglet series 1 - the one about animal rights, books, and groceries

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My previous model was that full length ideas would come here, and quick thoughts would go to Twitter (@rukeshr), but Twitter has now just be...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

Banking and the poor

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Maybe the formal banking sector is not the best solution for the underprivileged after all .  Rather blasphemous thought given my background...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Real steel

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I am currently reading a book called 'Man's search for meaning' by Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychotherapist who survived the holo...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

On value based pricing

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TL;DR:  1. Value based pricing works great when trying to establish pricing premium within an existing B2B relationship 2. It can also ...
Monday, July 29, 2019

A ThinkPad Phone?

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Cross-posting from my LinkedIn I hate phones with glass backs. They look and feel great but are so fragile. Gorilla glass claims notwit...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Is iOS intuitive any more?

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Cross-posting from my Linkedin The iPhone OS was game changing back in 2007 when Apple effectively created the modern smartphone. Truly gr...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Social media and Sri Lanka

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There is a lot of scrutiny over social media these days. We have taken off the rose-tinted glasses with which we initially perceived so...

On monetary policy

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Reposting my thoughts on MMT from LinkedIn, where no one seems to have noticed it. Oh the irony of then posting it here ! __ Good article...
Monday, February 25, 2019

What Mexico's Roma taught me about India

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I just watched Roma the other day and found it incredibly incredible. Yes, that incredible that it needed one too many incredibles to descri...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

How car designs have aged

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I grew up a big car buff and though the interest has waned a little over the years, I still take a keen interest in cars. Car design (exter...