Author Archives: sivakumargopal

Debts and Economy

Leaders take a part of profits as compensation and bonuses, but employees get a pittance. Shareholders invest money in companies and get a small part of the profits, if any, as dividends that are taxed. Market cap is determined by share value, and that is not constant. But corporates run operations on debt. Banks lendContinue reading “Debts and Economy”

Traffic woes of Urban India

India’s major cities are overwhelmed by an unprecedented volume of vehicular traffic. As the population expands, urban migration increases correspondingly. Consequently, the growth in urban population is accompanied by a proportional rise in the number of vehicles. However, the road infrastructure has remained largely unchanged, resulting in more vehicles per kilometer of road length thanContinue reading “Traffic woes of Urban India”

Is Ai a boon or a curse?

Ai is being touted as a game changing infrastructural innovation of this decade similar to Computers, Internet, Mobile phones and Satellites that revolutionised the world. Every infrastructural innovation has brought immense benefits to the mankind and today we can’t live without anyone of them. Ai understandably is positioned as the most powerful infrastructure till thisContinue reading “Is Ai a boon or a curse?”

Multitasking – how our brain processes tasks and why it is not advisable to engage it in that way.

An interesting video chat with a neuroscientist throws open some intriguing facts about our brain and how it consumes more energy to do different tasks to our body organs. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B3DthdAAg/?mibextid=wwXIfr

The leader knows whom to entrust with an important task

One of the core virtues of a leader is to find the right man for the right job. Obviously he cannot do every job by himself and he needs a person who is capable to deliver the job to him. The famous Tamil poet and saint had detailed how this work needs to get done.Continue reading “The leader knows whom to entrust with an important task”

There is a series ‘True detective’ on OTT- JioHotstar. I was closely following the conversations between a lead detective and his junior. The lead detective is inquisitive about his partner’s way of working, his approach to investigation and his take on human relations. This is how the conversation goes: “Human consciousness was a tragic misstepContinue reading