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An Idea - Demonetization - An opportunity to promote digitization (Villages)

Our country and fellow men are going through a difficult phase since Nov 8,2016 which includes the rich, poor, leaders and common man on the street. We should agree that we have been living a life of abundance for some time now, post liberalization. Post the decision by the government it becomes important for all of us to think about the ideology behind the motive. If we feel it is right, let's do our part to support it not for self alone but look for others who need our help, may be a small shop owner, a vegetable vendor, our maids or gardeners, drivers or support staff. Here is one awesome thought of increasing the penetration of internet / data usage by remote villages and digitize them. We see and hear that people at remote villages are unable to get into the digital band wagon because of mainly two reasons, I would say two parts - lack of literacy AND cost of data usage. For the Second part - we can think of our telecom companies like Idea, Jio, Airtel setting up dedica...

Can you decide in a "blink" ?

Summary of “Blink” By Malcolm Gladwell - “through my eyes” A fter a long time I picked up this book "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell because of an instigation from one of my friend :-) and I found some elements very intuitive and relevant to our day to day lives, thought of sharing it with you all.  It is all about snap judgments, of the power inside us which helps us make a decision within a split second. Our “unconscious-self” is a powerful force but it’s fallible. So when is it that we should trust our instincts and when should we be wary of them? Is it by nature or can it be practiced? The book says - Yes very well, this can be learnt and practiced. The book doesn’t talk about the methodology of how to pick on it but blown up research in google should be able to take us there. Our snap judgments and first impressions can be educated and controlled. There is a mention of reading expressions on our faces through the theory of “thin slices”. Thin-slicing refers to the a...