Ideas

Sodexo Coupons – Invalid. A Business Model explained

Short Summary: As of January 1st, 2012, all retail store chains in Bangalore (and across India) have stopped accepting Sodexo coupons in lieu of items purchased. Every firm hands out these Sodexo vouchers to its Employees (included in compensation package). Employees are now worried that these Sodexo coupons would be useless as they are not [...]

Why Men will never understand Women

There are thousands (maybe millions) of blogposts and news items which explain the fact why Men never understood (and will never understand) women. However, looking at this issue and understanding it through the lens of Hindu Mythology is a little unique (and hopefully enlightening!). Let me explain. I’ve been reading “7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar [...]

Theory of Outrageous Predictions

This is a theory which we can all use, with very limited or zero downside but unlimited upside. Let me explain. Make a prediction about anything. Just about anything. The trick lies in making an outrageous prediction and not just a normal prediction. For example, you can predict that Bangladesh is going to win this [...]

IPL 2011 Player Valuation and Analysis

The next auction of the IPL season is upon us. In fact, it is due tomorrow, Jan 8th 2011. I considered doing an extensive post on IPL player valuation including some mathematics, but then again, a combination of sleep, laziness and the Test series (Ind vs SA and Aus vs Eng) kept me away from [...]

Corporate Jargons – Video time!

I came across this recent movie making service (free) called Xtranormal very recently and I have already become a huge fan of it. In this post, I tried to experiment movie making with a topic that is so widespread that the UN is planning to list it as one of the world’s most dangerous viruses. It’s called Jargon. [...]

Retrospective Determinism*

*Jargon alert. Loosely called ‘Hindsight bias’. How often have we looked at past events, somehow saw/derived a pattern from these connected events and concluded that the final eventuality had to happen? Many a time, we indulge in this process known as retrospective determinism. Let me explain.  a)      The US govt. looked at all the events [...]

New Business Idea – Free ISD Calls (say, US to India)

Being in the US for over more than a year now, I have had to pay through my nose for all the ISD calls that I make – to India, Singapore etc. That was a problem to solve right there – why should I pay? Is there a way to make these calls free? The [...]