On the importance of strategic lawn mowing

If not for the essential difference that it is a lot smarter, strategic lawn would be a lot like normal lawn mowing. With strategic lawn moving, instead of mindlessly mowing the closest patch of grass available, you would pause for a moment to look over the about-to-be-cut lawn to analyse your battlefield. Think about the […]

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Financial vandalism: Human measure in the age of social media

Microsoft bought Nokia for $7.2 billion and Skype for $8.5 billion. Google spent on $3.2 billion on Nest and $12.5 billion on Motorola. Facebook splashed $1 billion on Instagram, $2 billion on Oculus and $19 billion on Whatsapp.  Brands like Starbucks, Red Bull and Oreo have well beyond 35 million followers on Facebook each, a […]

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Lord of the Flies review

Animal Farm-eqsue, the book tells about the little savage society on a deserted island, now occupied by boys. Golding captures the human inability for peace strikingly well. If this is youth fiction, it’s at the far end of it, but it explores human nature so well, the desert island being a metaphor for an experiment […]

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