Business to Buddha
Data as a narrative
Should we trust data that can be manipulated to suit narrative? In whatever case middle path is most important. One must take data and findings with open eyes and willingness and honesty to question.
Should we trust data that can be manipulated to suit narrative? In whatever case middle path is most important. One must take data and findings with open eyes and willingness and honesty to question.
The long and short of all this is balancing the life with awareness and becoming a saint in a professional life.
Recently I wrote on why socialism fails? The article may sound a complete no-no to socialism. I believe any concept is inherently not flawed. The flaw is mostly in the execution – be it capitalism, socialism or any other “-ism. So, what can possibly be socialism the right way? I Read more…
It was a monthly routine of some of my friends of our engineering days that can explain one Professor Mankad’s statement – “Money is what is accepted as money”. Some of my friends, used to be penniless for last one week to ten days every month. Possibly it is a Read more…
How would the Buddha look at the scenario of Paris attack? Or any other terrorist attack? I was wondering with the same sadness and anger as any other person. I twitted also regarding the Paris attack. However, there came an afterthought, what would the Buddha do? How would the Buddha Read more…
[Tweet “The problem with economic analysis is – it is always dependent on me Vs you or internal vs external. Would we be able to see a view where the analysis is done on a single monolith?”] I was reading an article which states that leading economists are now tilting Read more…
As I have been writing a lot about interdependent co-arising, I came across this video and thought to share it without delay on my blog. If you can understand this video you can understand the concept of Buddhism on interdependent co-arising. Please watch this small <5 min video a wonderful experiment. Read more…
Do markets have morals? When I read Mr Rajeev Mantri’s article “The morality of markets” (Link) in the Livemint, I asked this simple question to myself. Various things came to my mind – i. financial meltdown(s) there are numerous examples of past; namesake recent one in 2008 ii. real estate Read more…
Last week I wrote on being at a crossroad. Generally, we are all making some or the other decision. I specially like entrepreneurs who need to be constantly analyzing situations their business and survival + growth. Life becomes very interesting, challenging and driven by passion. One has to balance between Read more…
I have read Dr Joseph Stiglitz. He is a Nobel prize awarded economist. The book I read first was Globalization and its discontents and recently I started reading The price of Inequality. I realized that Dr Stiglitz may not be the so called capitalist economist, he is capitalist but with Read more…