Author: Arvind Maram
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Using Social Media Effectively
If you are engaging on social media purely for your own benefit you should stop doing it, else you will enter into vicious circle and will be paralyzed with inaction or anxiety. The presence or absence of anyone should not negatively influence your thinking or actions.
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Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
I could relate the content with ST, particularly DM’s philosophy. The authors give many examples but one in particular gives the essences of a place called Nogales which is prosperous on one side where in poverty on the other side.They attribute it to two primary theories One leads to virtuous feeback circles where as the…
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How do you prolong a product’s valuable lifetime?
If you look objectively, the actual business interests of the initiative are after MR. Hence the longer the product is in the market the better. Even during the architecting phase one should keep that perspective to ensure market longevity of the product. In a disruptive environment, having a capable, scalable and resilient hardware with field…
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Sustainable happiness
I asked Perplexity GPT to apply the 5 why to “why should one earn a lot of money?”, here’s it’s response Would the world be a better place if we make point 5 as a priority for our children from childhood? Is it practical to do so? In this Katha Upanishad video Swami Sarvapriyananda quotes…
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A note on Systems Thinking, Systems Engineering, and Systems Architecting
To understand systems thinking, one must first gather the understanding of what a “system” means. A system is a combination of elements interconnected in a manner to achieve a specific purpose. Sometimes these elements are intelligent (agents) and their interactions are dynamic which lead to complex systems. Complex systems evolve over time to perform something…
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Competitive advantage or wasted human potential?
There are patients waiting at a doctor’s clinic in a private hospital for the past hour or so as a doctor was doing his inpatient follow up rounds. His secretary gets a phone call. The secretary hurriedly finds the doctor and conveys something to him. The doctor hastily concludes his rounds and heads out. Later,…
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Conflict Management – Kautilya’s four Upayas!
A good friend reminded me of the terms Sama, dana, bheda , danda during a recent conversation. According to Kautilya’s Arthashastra these are four methods or Upayas of dealing with conflicts or in general people related problems. He says that these Upayas can be used individually or as a combination. They mean, Sama – conciliation…
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Assuring Quality
I am quoting the following statement from Madhav S. Phadke’s book Quality Engineering using Robust Design “The ideal quality a customer can receive is that every product delivers the target performance each time the product is used, under all intendent operating conditions, and throughout the product’s intended life, with no harmful side effects.” Though one…