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Real Problems. Un-Real Solutions

Posted on July 19, 2025July 21, 2025 by Unny

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” [Attributed to Abraham Maslow] The new and only tool now is AI. The solution for Bangalore’s traffic woes? An AI tool that will let you know in advance where the jams are likely to occur, so that…

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Is People Development only HR’s responsibility?

Posted on February 16, 2025July 15, 2025 by Unny

[First published in Economic Times, 13th Jan 2025] The HR function is often criticised in organisations for not doing what it is meant to. The narratives are often along the lines of HR straying away from its purpose, it becoming a compliance function and not a strategic partner, does not do enough to fulfil the…

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Musings on our sense of ‘time’, the past, and the future

Posted on August 18, 2024July 15, 2025 by Unny

One of the most thought provoking and insightful piece I have read on our ability to put ‘time in perspective’ is from Tim Urban, a prolific writer. His writings are deeply researched and often an explainer on many topics when one is trying to make sense of this world. Our ability to have a sense…

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Why I Write

Posted on July 26, 2024July 15, 2025 by Unny

This was triggered by Charles Assissi’s post and piece on ‘Why I Write?.’ It probably resonated with many people who are professional writers as well as some of us who write once in 12 blue moons. Like the Cycle Agarbathi advertisement says, ‘Everyone has a reason to pray,’ perhaps everyone has a reason to write….

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Book: The Price of Time

Posted on July 21, 2024July 15, 2025 by Unny

“Can a history of interest rates really entertain? You bet.. To read this terrific book is to be reacquainted with the bizzaire, Alice-in-Wonderland condition of modern finance” – Marc Sidwell, Sunday Telgraph. [From the blurb on the back cover] I have been reading books on economics of all types for the last many years, as…

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A Walkable Mumbai

Posted on July 13, 2024July 15, 2025 by Unny

[This was a blog piece written as part of a Appreciation Course on Urban Governance by Takshashila Institution. This article relies on multiple sources for information. All the sources are credited at the end of the article] An arterial road or an internal road. The grey colour Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) van arrives. A few…

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What AI does for us Vs. what it is doing to us.

Posted on May 17, 2024July 15, 2025 by Unny

[First published in Mint Print Edition, 17th May 2024.] “To erase the line between man and machine is to obscure the line between men and gods,” says the line in the teaser clip for the movie Ex-Machina released in 2015. What technology does for us has never been a topic for a discussion or debate….

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Coming soon. Advertisements on your bank website

Posted on April 23, 2024July 15, 2025 by Unny

[First published in The Economic Times Brand Equity, April 2024] In the year 2005, Andrew Fischer, then a 20-year old web designer and product photographer went viral across all media, globally. This was a time when viral had not become mainstream. Fischer offered his forehead for advertising on eBay to the highest bidder. A snoring…

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A Podcast With The Payal Nanjiani Leadership Podcast

Posted on March 19, 2024July 15, 2025 by Unny

A conversation with Payal Nanjiani, Author and Leadership Coach.

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The Power of Narratives and Irrationality

Posted on May 19, 2023July 15, 2025 by Unny

The word ‘millionaire’ is said to have been coined in the early 1700s when many Frenchmen turned nouveaux riches with the ‘Mississippi bubble’. A period of economic boom saw the shares of Mississippi company rising, making many Frenchmen rich and Paris attracting investments, much to the envy of John Blunt, the Director of South Sea…

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