We have come a long way so far. Starting with the basics of money and banking in Part I, we expanded to the construct of a Blockchain (Part II) before we illustrated the concepts of decentralization and distributed ledgers in Part III. In this part of our series, we will…

Ending the last post on a climax was particularly important, since that hopefully made you stop and re-read the train of thought — which culminated in seeing the chain of information blocks. If you do not remember, please refresh your knowledge here. We will jump right back into our scene…

In the last post of this series, we introduced the concepts of money and banking using the analogy of a typical situation on a children’s playground. We became familiar with an organizing entity (the bank), the advantages of book money versus cash money and the simplicity of transferring book money…

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, NFT’s — if you are following media, chances are that you will somehow have heard of these concepts. There has hardly been any other topic recently that divided the public in camps of either enthusiasts or skeptics, with little in between. But what caused this debate to happen…

In an increasingly globalized world, project teams tend to be put together across various cultures. However, with each culture comes an individual code of communication and conduct, which can put an additional layer of complexity on the team. In this article I will illuminate the culture clash between Indian and…

Humanity faces many challenges nowadays — wealth and income inequality being one of the worrisome types with the potential to cause dangerous consequences for democracy. The french economist and academic Thomas Piketty proposes a global tax on capital in his best-selling book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”. These are my…

We all marvel at those humans whose brains seem to be a wellspring of fresh, innovative ideas, each of which have the potential of starting a multi-billion dollar business, set a new trend or even ignite movements which shape society. What makes them think differently and which lessons can we…