Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Friedman Noir
The first grenade goes to “Shlok,” whose noir take on Friedman was really stirring — would make a great movie, like an upside-down, on-acid version of Out of the Past: Continue reading
Informal Security In Lower Manhattan
“The fact that Guardian Angels are on the streets trying to restore law just shows how out of control the situation is in lower Manhattan,” he added, referring to a group of anti-crime volunteers which operates in the city. -Shlok … Continue reading
How to Plug Into A Crisis
(Or, how to be a Stephensonian Gargoyle.*) I know a little bit about this. In November 2008, I was using Twitter (before it was big) to live narrate the Mumbai attacks. Real-time analysis in 140 character counts (the graph is … Continue reading
The Dirty Weapons
This is the era of the dirty weapon. Nation-states took all the clean ones. The ones that could be controlled. The ones that required hundreds of academics and engineers. And in doing so, they did the R&D for the loners, … Continue reading
Fall of the Journalist, Rise of the Content Marketer
Source– Companies will increasingly invest in people through direct hires or by outsourcing the content creation process. At Mindjumpers, we realized we needed a leader that had a strong publishing background. We hired a veteran journalist and former online chief … Continue reading