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Author Archives: Dhiren
Dhiren Shingadia
On the button honesty
The title of this post is misleading. I don’t know how to deal with being weird. More importantly, I don’t know how to deal with being weird and black, which is a double whammy for a lot of people. My ideas don’t fit in with people’s idea of me, if you know what I mean. [...]
Thoughts on outsourcing
I’ve increasingly become interested in supply chains and the outsourcing of product manufacture (note: I’m only referring to product manufacturing and nothing else). The latter is shrouded in positive and negative opinions from everyone including economists, the government and environmentalists. The detractors argue that outsourcing has a negative impact on our GDP and unemployment rates; [...]
Ice skids
It’s cold out. Flecks of ice are starting to cover the road and I’m dodging frozen puddles each morning. When it’s not freezing, it’s wet and muddy most of the time. Cycling adopts a new meaning at this time of year: it represents endurance, necessity and commitment. You won’t find many polished fixies outside coffee [...]
The demise of the cookie cutter strategy
The effects of the financial crisis are now more evident than ever. There will be more job cuts in the public sector, the Euro crisis will not settle anytime soon and a recession appears to be imminent. We’re fed information by the media, yet it’s often difficult to see the immediate impacts on our surroundings; [...]
Artisans in business
Scratch notes (ignore grammar mistakes and embrace swearing). I’ve been thinking: developed economies spent – at least – a third of the twentieth centry trying to repair economic damage incurred by war, gain economic momentum and grow. A focus on growth, margins and profit, from the fifties and onward, created faceless organisations, which produced medicore [...]
Mozzer
I’ve always been fascinated by Mozzer. It’s probably because my opinions, about certain things, are not too dissimilar from his. However, in true Morrissey style, I don’t have to declare shit. (via dangerous minds)
The hidden side of everything
This work of pop-economics became somewhat disengaging when points were over-laboured and justified with cumbersome datasets. However, this book was, of course, written before the data visualisation and information design boom. Either concept harbours the potential to illustrate Dubner’s adroit story telling. Levitt and Dubner collaboratively prove a variety of hypotheses — some quite ridiculous [...]
Soma holiday
I was recently told that A Brave New World was a book for teenagers; a literary muse for the young intelligentsia. I disagree. The complexity of the book allows you to extract different meanings each time it’s visited. Immersed, I found my-self reading, re-reading and questioning chapters to confirm the sentiments they evoked. Huxley was [...]
Middle class triviality
(written at some point after the riots kicked off, but never got around to posting) I sit here thinking about aspidistras whilst London burns. The shooting of Mark Duggan has triggered the neglected and often demonized communities of London to revolt. Comments on Twitter and Facebook suggest that many are puzzled by the furore and [...]
Not so velvety
When you see a book titled Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, you gravitate toward it and ask yourself, ‘What the fuck could this be about?’ It’s the kind of book you’d discover after clicking ‘I’m feeling lucky’ on Google; a wildcard and frivolous purchase of sorts. I flicked through it in a few days and [...]
Focus’ hegemony in the age distraction