Uncategorized – Page 8 – Talk of Many Things

Three Innovative Features From Hyperlocal Apps To Kill Location Friction

19 March 2025

In Why Do Hyperlocal Apps Have So Much Location Friction?, I described many friction hotspots while entering and editing locations in hyperlocal apps like Ola, Rapido, Uber (Rideshare) Pizza Hut,…

Globalization – Good or Bad?

12 March 2025

Any discussion of globalization and its impact on a country needs to recognize that a nation comprises both producers and consumers. Producers are businesses. Consumers are J6P (Joe Six Pack…

How Are Regulators Cracking Down on Cybercrime In Different Countries?

5 March 2025

In Why Is It Hard To Catch Cybercriminals?, we considered a canonical case of a cybercrime: Joe pays Jane online for something and does not receive that something he was…

Why Calculating ROI for Software Is Harder Than You Think

26 February 2025

Every now and then, somebody will question ROI metrics reported by B2B tech vendors. Let's take the following LinkedIn post for example: Tech vendors' use of the term "ROI" is…

Why Do Hyperlocal Apps Have So Much Location Friction?

19 February 2025

The term "location" seemingly means different things in different hyperlocal apps: Locality / neighborhood e.g. Kalyaninagar Address e.g. B1-504 Silver Oak, Kalyaninagar, ... Pickup / delivery point e.g. Flat #…

The Zero Sum Game Myth: When Bubbles Are Good

12 February 2025

1 + (-1) = 0. Traders look at the 1 at the start of the equation and treat trading as a profitable activity. Engineers look at the 0 at the…

DeepSeek – Engineering Innovation Or Financial Jugglery?

3 February 2025

When consumers are asked to pay for some product or service, they think twice about whether to consume it. There's a cognitive overhead in all decisions but the one involved…

ChatGPT Data Analysis – Objections v. Rebuttals

22 January 2025

Between my two blog posts titled Using ChatGPT As A Data Analysis Assistant and Data Analysis By ChatGPT, I covered seven examples of data analysis via ChatGPT. Retail Format Price…

Why Mitigate Climate Change When You Can Exploit It

15 January 2025

If there's a flood in Chennai, they'll call it Climate Change and whine that they're not able to produce solar energy. If there's a drought in Vancouver, they'll call it…

Data Analysis By ChatGPT

8 January 2025

For over a decade, I've been dreaming of an analytics platform that would ingest my Excel file, process it, and give me actionable insights - without any effort from me.…