ANTHROPOLOGY OF MARKETS; CARBON EMISSIONS
A R&R research article originally written for the journal American Anthropologist but never published before.
Non-statutory but a healthy, friendly warning: This is a research article. It means, it is the outcome of academic research. Like in any other profession, academic research has its own means to understand facts; it uses particular tools and terminologies. The ways of academic writing and argumentation might sound obscure…
An overview of some of my writings
Who Said Daydreaming at Work Is Bad?
Science finds that daydreaming carries significant creative and problem-solving benefits at work. Published on Illumination (August 27, 2020).
Your mind meandering on the job is often thought to be nothing but wasting time. Daydreaming is generally considered detrimental to work. However, a recent study finds that daydreaming can be a…
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TRANSITION
Whether Building Moats is a New Phase - a Paradigm Shift - of the Tech Industry?
WARREN BUFFETT says he invests only in firms that have moats built around them. Originally conceived to protect castles, moats are increasingly being talked about in new technology circles: Are the Silicon Valley champions of disruption building moats?
A MOAT is a deep and wide trench around a fortified place filled with water, functioning as a primary line of defence. Last year, Bloomberg reported that the term ‘moat’ is increasingly being used by the tech entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and elsewhere. The spat between Warren Buffett and Elon…
A career I thrived on during my teens. And, what it taught me.
I was 16. It wasn’t long ago that I had started writing short stories and poems, mostly imitating what I read. One of those cold rainy mornings, a friend, an art student who was 18 or 19, waited for me at the bus station. He held me back until everyone…
Science finds that daydreaming carries significant creative and problem-solving benefits at work
Your mind meandering on the job is often thought to be nothing but wasting time. Daydreaming is generally considered detrimental to work.
However, a recent study finds that daydreaming can be a significant asset for problem-solving. Published on the prestigious Academy of Management Journal, the study tested more than 300…
EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGIES AND INVISIBLE INVENTORS
Margaret E. Knight: The female hero who invented mass market flat-bottomed paper grocery bags
OUR everyday lives are full of mundane technologies that are so ubiquitous that we do not even recognize them as innovations anymore. The case of paper grocery bags is one such. The square-bottomed paper bag we use to carry groceries from the store, packets from the gift shop, or pack…
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
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The life of an internet minute
Sixty seconds on the internet are insane in human terms.
Even if your grandfather was the most accurate futurologist, he would not have predicted the amount of screen time you spend on finding a match, binge-watching your…
EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGIES AND INVISIBLE INVENTORS
In 1888, Ellen Eglin sold the rights of her mechanical clothes wringer because ‘White Ladies’ would not buy an invention by a ‘Negro Woman’.
Clean, dry clothes are normal for most privileged people in today’s world. It is so normal that the resources, infrastructures, and technologies that make it possible are completely black-boxed.
However, in the late-nineteenth century, the invention of a mechanical cloth wringer to dry the clothes was a leap forward. Not…
MAHATMA GANDHI’S VIEWS ON RACE, ESPECIALLY BLACKS
A contextual review of the book: How I Began to Dislike Gandhi: The Story of My Disillusionment With The Truth-God
Note: Gandhi’s quotes from the book are ‘highlighted like this’ with single inverted commas.
Among the statues that Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters are taking down, some are Gandhi’s.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more famously called Mahatma Gandhi, is a minor figure in the pantheon of anti-black historical figures. In fact…
Anup Sam Ninan PhD
Runaway academic. EU external expert. Knowledge entrepreneur. Flirting with AI/Conversational Technologies. Live in multiple worlds. More: https://bit.ly/AnupN
