Vinay Wagh

Who said So? - The questions revolutionary businesses ask that make them successful                                                                                                                                   - by Michael Parker “Couples will never marry online!” Most of us would immediately agree to this statement. The company “Shadi.com” asked, “Who said so?” Surprisingly in the covid-19 lockdown period Shadi.com has managed to have weddings from Home.   "Who said So?" is a story of John, an uprising manager at the software company who finds himself in a pool of problems after getting a new assignment, which was several weeks delayed from the...

Sapiens – by Yuval Noah Harari. The book gives few interesting insights that demystifies few questions pertaining to our habits. Why, for example we humans gorge on high-calorie food that is doing little good to our bodies? Today’s affluent societies are in the throes of plague of obesity, which is rapidly spreading to the developing countries. It’s a puzzle why we binge on the sweetest and the greasiest food we can find, until we consider the eating habits of our forager forebears. One simple answer is, “We like the taste!” According to Yuval Harari, the reason is deep rooted in the genes that our ancestors, the Homo sapiens thousands of years ago had. Most of our habits that are because of less self-control are because of the hunter gatherer world that shaped us, the world that we subconsciously still inhibit. In the savannahs and forests they inhabited, high calorie sweets were extremely rare and food in general was in short supply. A typical forager 30,000 years ago had...