Before talking about ‘The Future of Work’, how about understanding the present pandemic related disruptions and discontinuities where communities of practice were divided into remote and precarious front-liner, creating a work-based caste system of the present.
Bhagwa AAP
The Hindu Nationalist Firmament has a new member in the AAP. The alternative is here along with Shiv Sena.
Skills Bucket
There are three buckets in any knowledge sector work i.e. Subject Matter Expertise, Program Delivery Expertise and Rain Making. If one brings in revenue and solves vexed problems, then the market will hire you. Stop blaming neoliberal capitalism, and ‘upgrade’.
Feedback Loop.
There are two ways to process feedback, one to sulk, the other to treat it as radical candor and grow with it.
I have grown the most from the worst feedback i have received.
Samosa in Singapura
An SGD 10 Samosa as tapas, at a tony fine dining place, made me remember samosa pav in Navi Mumbai, outside Vashi Station.
Moral Imperative.
Activists are moral entrepreneurs. An ability to imagine a fairer world needs tremendous guts where is no apparently apt founder market fit in place.
Political Valency.
In this woke era, everything has a political valency hence the line between business, activists, and investors as the climate era.
The line is blurred.
Aspirations.
I think the aspirations which one has in terms of an icon when we are in school shape our careers or intellectual inclinations.
Mine was Gurudeb Prof Amartya Sen, his Idea of Justice and the notion of plural identities left a mark on my college self.
Touchpoints.
Be Useful. There are plenty of places to impact lives (and Twitter is not the place). Talk to people in the neighborhood, there will be causes, co-create possibilities of meaning.
Scaling Up Ideas
ideas can be used for plenty of ends from articles to venture creation as entrepreneurship and activism is a mode of building and transformation