This is an interesting read not just for the topicality of it given the recent cases of labour unrest in some parts of India but also a nostalgia driving analogy with the context of the iconic 80s movie – Aliens. The article refers to a new book The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market […]
In our latest bestseller, “Breakpoint: The Crisis of the Middle Class & The Future of Work” we explain that tech disruption usually impact the labour market in two waves. In the first wave, labour is displaced by new tech eg. the light bulb displacing candle makers in late 19th century America. In the second wave, tech […]
China shock 1.0 referred to how beginning the 90s, low-cost Chinese manufacturing led to disruption of manufacturing in the west. But that was largely related to low-tech products manufactured at scale where cost competitiveness was key. However, the west, in particular European countries like Germany retained a strong hold on high tech industrial and automobile […]
Did you know that Delhi has 2,500 lady bouncers? And did you know that the first female bouncer in India is Mehrunissa Shaukat Ali (who works at the Social in Saket, an upscale locality in south Delhi) hailing from Saharanpur in Western UP? These and other interesting factoids are studded within Saman Husain’s fascinating article […]
Assa Doronis is professor of anthropology and South Asia at the Australian National University in Canberra. Alex Broomis is academic director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council. Doronis & Broomis have authored a book titled ‘A World of Resistance: India and the Global Antibiotic Crisis’ (2026). This long essay in Aeon […]
Tempting as it is to declare a winner in the LLM wars every week or month (depending on the latest capability demonstrated by Claude or Gemini or ChatGPT), such predictions are a waste of time because of just how fluid the AI landscape is. All we know for sure is that AI is an important […]
In an uncertain macroeconomic environment shaped by AI disruption and shifting global geopolitics, the Consistent Compounders Portfolio (CCP) strategy has evolved significantly. While maintaining a concentrated portfolio focused on good-quality businesses, we have diversified our top holdings across uncorrelated sectors such as healthcare, auto components, and export-led manufacturing. This deliberate shift away from our historical […]
AI bros believe its rapid progress will create a world where everything is in abundance. Elon Musk has gone to the extent of proclaiming that abundance will be such that no one will need to work, at least not for money. Indeed, money as a concept will likely lose relevance. “Musk believes that robots and […]
Whilst the world at large has been somewhat relieved by the ceasefire, it has indeed been a huge source of relief in particular for those countries dependent on energy imports from the Gulf, primarily Asian majors such as Japan, Korea and India. Whilst China is an even bigger energy consumer and also dependent on imports, […]
If you are feeling that the tanking stockmarket and the economic sluggishness is wearing you down, reading the article might help you put your (and our) challenges in perspective because the timelines which matter to the planet are not a few thousand years or even a few million years; they are more than several million […]
Last week, we featured a piece on how capital markets are ‘enshittifying’ most aspects of life i.e, commercial interests undermining the quality of the ultimate experience of goods and services. This piece zooms in on how this is playing out in the world of sport in general, and football in particular, a sport that we call ‘The […]
In this brilliant blog (which we would suggest you read in full because of how important this could be for your business), Prof Lakhani tells us that those of us who are trying to figure who will win the LLM race by comparing what various AI models can do are likely to get it wrong. […]
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