If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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Challenging Silicon Valley’s Innovation Hegemony
For several decades, Silicon Valley has had a near-monopoly on innovation. The Valley emerged out of America’s deep commitment to higher education and scientific research, combined with the American will to maintain leadership in defence technology. Through the second half…
Economic Development As Foreign Policy
In this piece, Harsh and I write about the importance of economic strength in the foreign policy arena: Military strength, despite its great importance, offers diminishing marginal returns. Possibilities of asymmetric power projections preclude any simplistic linear comparison of military…
Reason and Freedom
The relationship between reason and freedom is reciprocal: when men are rational, freedom wins; when men are free, reason wins.
– Ayn Rand
Intuition
The most important things in life, whether they’re personal or professional, are decided on intuition.
Reality
Derivatives For Farmer Welfare
Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on using financial derivatives for replacing the minimum support price (MSP) system for farmer welfare: With reduced risk thanks to commodity options, there will also be less of a need to keep crop…
India’s Rapidly Evolving Technology Landscape
Most investors who have put capital behind consumer internet startups trying to build commoditised businesses will lose money. India’s technology landscape can be characterized as having seen three waves of evolution and growth. The first wave was led by the…