Some time back, Progressive Insurance, if memory serves, ran a television ad where they claimed to provide their customers with quotes from their competitors right on their own website. Their claim? "We want you to save money even if it's not with us." I never went with Progressive as I have always been saving 15 percent or more elsewhere (and also that lady on their ads is a bit creepy) but their tag line has stuck in memory for all these years.
In that spirit, today I'm providing you with links to better prose elsewhere with nothing more than the noble intention that at M/s. Slowelectron Inc., we want you to get some value for your time. Even if it's not with us. Although, anyone that has visited this site would know that the chances of getting anything of quality here are rather slim.
Without further blather, here are the promised links.
Exhibit 1: If you have wondered whether you arewasting spending too much time on social media, there is good news and bad news. The bad news is that, yes you have been wasting your time. But the good news is that you are but a pawn in this intricate game of luring you in and making you lose any sense of time on their app/website. Tristan Harris - a magician and ex-Google Design Ethicist - shines light on a high stakes game where human weaknesses are leveraged to the advantage of the businesses, where every pixel seduces you and every click draws you deeper into the abyss. Time to snap out of the stupor and take control. (P.S: No, I don't have this affliction. FB had to flash the the pictures of a few of my friends for me to identify as the account had been inactive for too long. And that was a few months back. And I still believe that Whatsapp is a mobile messaging app.)
Exhibit 2: Hariharan Iyer calls the bluff on the double standards of the secular brigade, this time it is Trupti Desai and her two distinct set of antics for two different religions.
Exhibit 3: From being denied a visa to getting a state welcome and addressing Congress, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come a long way, in few giant strides. But meanwhile at NY times... I stopped reading at the paragraph that says "The Gujarat riots began on a February morning, when a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was surrounded by a mob of Muslims and caught fire at a train platform in Godhra."
Hope to be back soon with something original.
In that spirit, today I'm providing you with links to better prose elsewhere with nothing more than the noble intention that at M/s. Slowelectron Inc., we want you to get some value for your time. Even if it's not with us. Although, anyone that has visited this site would know that the chances of getting anything of quality here are rather slim.
Without further blather, here are the promised links.
Exhibit 1: If you have wondered whether you are
Exhibit 2: Hariharan Iyer calls the bluff on the double standards of the secular brigade, this time it is Trupti Desai and her two distinct set of antics for two different religions.
Exhibit 3: From being denied a visa to getting a state welcome and addressing Congress, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come a long way, in few giant strides. But meanwhile at NY times... I stopped reading at the paragraph that says "The Gujarat riots began on a February morning, when a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was surrounded by a mob of Muslims and caught fire at a train platform in Godhra."
Hope to be back soon with something original.
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