Design your own Street

Today I came across this web app to design your own street: Streetmix. Quite a soothing exercise, and I recommend taking a go at it. And once you do, check out the equally if not more interesting story behind the design - You are a street designer. It mentions how this tool got people to reach …

What questions are you asking?

Our daily actions are answers, or attempts at answers, to the questions we ask ourselves. They shape our experience by focusing the energy of our conscious and subconscious thoughts on the search for answers to these questions. They become the lens through which we view reality. The Simpler Questions "How can I have more money?" This …

Mythology and Innovation

Few days back I shared a few posts which mentioned how innovation and growth stagnated starting at around the 1970s. I wonder if it was also co-related with a drop in mythology and superstition. When I read about people during the 60s (especially in California and New York), there are references to mystical books like …

The power of tweakers

(Note: This piece directly builds on ideas explored here, then here, and then here). In the last three posts, I tried to explore how not enough radical innovation is happening, leading to an unhappy state of growth. One of the ways out of this is better utilization of the existing IT infrastructure. In other words, …

Ways to the golden age…

This is the third installment in a series of posts. The first one was here and the second one lies here. This post carries the thread from the previous ones, employing terms defined in them. To recap, economic productivity has gone down, leading to 'The Great Stagnation'. Though we are innovating in the world of …