This piece could serve as a quick record of the 8-10 key events of 2025, and the impact on India…with some analysis of the events. The world had entered the calendar year 2025 with 4-5 key events going on : Wars in Ukraine and Gaza The AI juggernaut moving from testing to scaling phase Climate … Continue reading 2025 – Waiting for AI and Climate…hit by Geopolitics and Trade!!
Author: smish2050
DEI is dead? Long live DEI!
So, I am no DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) expert. But I am an expert in taking offense when something regressive and downright silly happens in the business world…. or in society at large! So, when I see global companies tripping over themselves and making a beeline to denounce their DEI initiatives, I can’t help … Continue reading DEI is dead? Long live DEI!
Satya Nadella’s BG2 podcast – key Strategy lessons & AI predictions
There’s been an interesting Youtube video doing the rounds of Tech and Business circles since Dec 12, 2024. This is the one where Satya Nadella, global CEO of Microsoft has been interviewed by two renowned Tech podcasters, Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner, popularly called BG-2. This video took off because in this interaction, Nadella went … Continue reading Satya Nadella’s BG2 podcast – key Strategy lessons & AI predictions
Age of Revolutions…the 10 I’s that Demolished the Democrats
I completed reading the book “Age of Revolutions’ by Fareed Zakaria a month back (Oct 2024). Zakaria (a Mumbai born, Cathedral & John Connon alumnus, Yale grad of 1986, first gen migrant to the USA) wrote about multiple times in the past 400 years when an era of liberalism, stoked by economic and technological revolutions … Continue reading Age of Revolutions…the 10 I’s that Demolished the Democrats
Three years since the beginning of the Pandemic
It’s been three full years since the first news of the Pandemic had started trickling in, in March 2020. The whole of Jan and Feb 2020, we in India had kept on hearing news from China and the Far-East and a bit from the western countries. But we kept on pretending that our 1000-year old … Continue reading Three years since the beginning of the Pandemic
Rational Exuberance 