This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. A fashion catalog from 1890s The digital mail-order catalog interface of ecommerce will be relegated to the minor league. Most of the world’s consumers will shop with the Digital Bazaar model. This statement might seem strange in the face of giants […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. An empty page can at once be overwhelming and a call to adventure. Some authors can fill page and pages, pouring their heart out. Others find it hard to write a page full of fluff, like yours truly. Daunting as […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. The future is grim for restaurants everywhere. David Chang, world famous chef and restauranteur, claims that the restaurant industry will not survive this pandemic. All around the world, restaurants are cutting staff trimming menus, focusing more on delivery and takeout, […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. 1) Writing is hard This is self-explanatory. Writing is work. When you write for public consumption, you have two competing goals; to express yourself in an efficient and concise manner. Brevity is the soul of wit, but the majority of people […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. In face of egregious conventional “wisdom”, common “sense”, or general orthodoxy, being right can be quite taxing. In hindsight, as a member of privileged class, you see this as a not terrible problem to have. However, in the moment, things […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Free Cash Flow(FCF) is an accounting term, with the formula “Cash Flow — Capital Expenditure”. In layman’s terms, Free Cash Flow at any given period is all the cash you have left over after you have paid all your current dues. For […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. I came face-to-face with the problem of Pakistan’s technological debt, just a few days ago when I went to a petrol pump to fill my car up. I asked the attendant if the POS machine was working any said yes […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Network Effects are a powerful way to create a competitive advantage and scale your business really fast and make your business unstoppable. Businesses that leverage theses can scale exponentially with each customer gained. I am shocked everyday to see how […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. You have seen this story before. There’s controversy around a social media platform or a social media personality. And there is huge uproar in the media. Pressure groups start boycott campaigns against all the companies advertising on that platform. The […]
This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Information spreads, very fast on the internet and misinformation spreads like wildfire. I saw this headline not just on the usual news channels but also on the first page of reddit, one of the top headlines on Hacker News, BoingBoing […]