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1/ Yesterday our high school age students, our teachers and I agreed on a concrete goal: students should be able to write a short essay in Tamil without error by

1/ There is a Tamil sign we used to see in shops: கடன் உறவைக் கெடுக்கும் (debt destroys relationships). It means "Please pay for your goods, don't ask us to postpone

1/ Silicon valley used to have slogans like "we code for food" and "ramen profitability" - all before the Fed bubble era when billion dollar Series QE funding rounds became

1/ I recently visited a textile spinning mill, one that converts raw cotton to yarn. The yarn goes to weaving mills which weave the yarn to fabric. The fabric eventually

1/ When we attempt to do anything new - and often when we repeat something we have done before! - it is inevitable that we will make mistakes. I have

1/ Concentration of activity in industry and agriculture (even coffee shops!) is justified by economic theory on the grounds of economies of scale.That's the idea that the per unit cost

1/ From extensive experience, I have come to oppose credentials driven education and it's counterpart, metrics driven management. I have opposed them on the ground that humans are not widgets.

1/ One young man approached me recently to ask for advice to start a small manufacturing business in a rural area. He had arranged financing from his family.I told him

1/ We have been very running a skills training program in one of our rural centers for the past 2 months, with the goal of hiring people who do well

1/ I want to talk about the topic of "modern management doctrine", what is taught in business schools around the world. Let's look at core tenets: a) Metrics: you can

1/ A few months ago, I started to informally tutor some village children because all schools were closed. Within a few days, my social-distanced open air class swelled from 3

1/ There is this technocratic idea that Economics is a scientific discipline like Physics. Not true.Subject to the "conservation law" that the world cannot consume what it has not produced