Tag: Economics and Work
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The Voice an Institution Cannot Have
Every year, some of the world’s smartest organizations publish thousands of pages of writing, yet only a tiny fraction survives in their readers’ memory. Many of the world’s leading organizations attract exceptional people, invest heavily…
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The Economics of Effort
The Wrong Question Every quarter, investors spend hours listening to the earnings calls of the world’s largest IT services companies. The questions rarely change. Utilisation, billing rates, hiring, offshore leverage, pricing discipline and revenue per…
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The Institutional Individual
Every technological revolution changes the economics of scarcity. Every change in scarcity eventually changes the way we organize ourselves. Over the past few years, several wealth managers and investment advisors have approached me with a…
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Designing a Day Without a Scoreboard
If the earlier pieces were about understanding what breaks when work disappears and what must replace it internally, then this is where that understanding is tested in a way that cannot be avoided, because it…
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VIII : Trust
Interaction begins to move without interruption when actions no longer require continuous verification, as expectations form around how others will behave, allowing coordination to proceed without checking each step. This condition develops when behavior becomes…
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VI : We Asked Anyway
When we finished college, there was no such thing as campus placements, at least not for us, and getting a job was less about being chosen and more about how long you were willing to…
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VI : Order
Order feels natural when it exists. Streets are navigable, systems function, and routines hold together. Because of this, it is easy to mistake order for something permanent or self-sustaining. In reality, it is produced and…
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No One Owns the Story
No one owns the story once sounded like a poetic reflection about media decentralization, but it now feels like the defining structural condition of our civilization, a redistribution of narrative authority across markets, corporations, cultural…
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IV : Sweet Before It Was Understood
In 1989, when a small Dinshaw’s ice cream shop opened near our engineering college hostel, it did not arrive with ceremony or symbolism, yet in retrospect, it marked one of those quiet transitions that reveal…
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IV : Time
Time is usually treated as a background variable, something that passes while other things happen. In practice, time is not neutral. It applies pressure, magnifies differences, and exposes what is real while eroding what only…