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Branding, psychology and why we don’t get Apple
In 1984, Apple launched its Think Different ad. Since then this ad is very much viewed and favorited. However, there seems to be a universal misunderstanding of its message. Let’s start with Branding...
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Forward towards Middle Ages
We fail to advance towards future. We advance not to the 22nd century but more to the period corresponding to 8th-15th centuries AD. Below a reprint of an excellent article providing the necessary...
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21st century: lose of silence and humanness
Years 1982, 1989, 1994, 1999 are not notable but for fact that some of redefining moments of recent technological breakthrough, especially in the realm of mobile and Internet technologies, happened...
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What is traditional consultancy and why it mostly fails
What is consultancy and is there a value in it? The truth is that only a comparatively small number of consulting projects seem to be successful. Either consultant recommendations fail at...
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Failure parallels between Mao Tse-Tung and Facebook
What do an alleged 70 million death of Chinese population in peacetime and an online social network boasting 955 million members have in common? While Mao’s life and work were considered inspirational...
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Save Yourself From Auto-loan Frauds
This is a guest blog by Eve Baxton. ————————————— In December 2011, nineteen suspects were arrested in New York. These suspects were part of two fraud auto loan schemes. They used straw buyers, with...
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Personal (almost-fail) story: what climbing can teach about life and business
Let me start by stating the obvious: humans are irrational. Let me give just one illustration of our irrationality. Climbing. Why do we climb? Some mountains have picturesque and pleasant landscapes,...
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Don’t Fail Your Business – Avoid the Most Obvious Traps
This is a guest blog by Eve Baxton. Owning a professional business is a huge responsibility. It involves all the potential risks and traps that are imaginable. According to a survey in 2009 by...
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Stark Lessons From The Costa Concordia Disaster
This is a guest blog by Eve Baxton. Nowadays, cruise ships are widely regarded to be one of the safest forms of travel, more so than both airplanes and automobiles. Like with all forms of travel...
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Top 10 ways to manipulate people (Chomsky)
Noam Chomsky wrote the article entitled “top 10 ways to manipulate people.” Below is the reprint of this article. 1. The strategy of distraction The primary element of social control is the strategy of...
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Chicken or egg: democracy vs economic growth – case Thailand
With 2011, a wave of unrest descended upon the MENA. What became later known as “Arab Spring“ represented a ragged set of uprisings throughout MENA countries including Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, etc. The...
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Singapore, Rousseau and the social contract
In 1965, less than two years after joining Malaysia, Singapore was forced to leave the bigger country and declare its own independence. Then its economy was in tatters. Lawlessness reigned. High levels...
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Modern saga “The Fox and the Hedgehog”: generalists vs. specialists
About 2,700 years ago, Archilochus wrote that “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Taking that as a starting point, Isaiah Berlin’s 1953 essay “The Fox and the Hedgehog”...
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How HR departments fail companies from inside and outside
Let’s start by analysing how HR departments sometimes “wrack havoc” on human resources of a company. The infamous Fast Company article of 2005 “Why We Hate HR” is as discussed and relevant as before....
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Can technology fail humanity?
Technology, a combination of two Greek words signifying ‘systematic treatment of art/craft/technique,’ is: the collection of techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production of goods or...
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The rise and demise of GM’s Saturn
Not very long ago, on a cold, wintry day of January 1985 the top man at GM, Roger B. Smith, unveiled ‘Saturn’, the first new brand to come out of GM in almost seven decades. A stand-alone subsidiary of...
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101 and failures of Machine Learning
Nowadays, ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) and ‘machine learning’ (ML) are cliches that people use to signal awareness about technological trends. Companies tout AI/ML as panaceas to their ills and...
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Bayes craze, neural networks and uncertainty
Story, context and hype Named after its inventor, the 18th-century Presbyterian minister Thomas Bayes, Bayes’ theorem is a method for calculating the validity of beliefs (hypotheses, claims,...
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Reinforcement Learning vs. Evolutionary Strategy: combine, aggregate, multiply
A birds-eye view of main ML algorithms In statistics, we have descriptive and inferential statistics. ML deals with the same problems and claims any problem where the solution isn’t programmed...
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Top 13 challenges AI is facing in 2017
AI and ML feed on data, and companies that center their business around the technology are growing a penchant for collecting user data, with or without the latter’s consent, in order to make their...
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