Izquierda: Mito y Realidad
Hace unos días vi un infográfico en Facebook diciendo que los países de izquierda han crecido más en términos de GDP y que la realidad de los países de derecha era un escenario menos positivo en ese aspecto. La cuestión que hay que entender de manera general es qu el GDP es un indicador que […]
Bank Holidays and Supermarkets
When I first arrived to Milan in 2009 I went out on a Sunday to buy some groceries, I walked a few hundred meters down the neighborhood just to find out that bars, supermarkets, pharmacies, and everything else was closed. I wondered that since I didn’t had a TV I must have missed the news […]
Phone Carriers Will Become Banks
I was recently thinking at this whole “consumerism” thing from the perspective of how easy it can get for people to buy stuff. Whereas one can carry an x amount of money in their pocket, let’s call it immediate disposable income, the dilemma for banks is obviously how much credit they can give to each […]
Gender Nonsense: A view on India’s sex ratio disparity
The figures from the last census in India point to an imbalanced sex ratio that in this country there were 109 males for every 100 females under the age of six, up from 107 in 2001… and increasing. The imbalanced sex ratio in India calls my attention because having a male son is very important […]
¿Indio o Hindú?
Antes de venir a India nunca me había cuestionado porqué a la gente nacida aquí les llamamos en Español “Hindús“. El término Hindú se refiere realmente a quienes profesan las tradiciones “religiosas” del Hinduismo, y digo “religiosas” porque técnicamente el Hinduismo no es una religión, pero eso es otro tema. Una de las razones que […]
Bittersweet Bangalore: My experience as an ex-pat in India
As an ex-pat, India is a land of contrasts in many senses. Weather it is income distribution (gap between the rich and the poor) or a picture of something astonishing beautiful next to something amazingly disgusting. I normally question exp-pats & foreigners who openly say “I love India” because I find it hypocrite. Let me […]
El video sobre el racismo que se hizo viral en Mexico
El video Viral Racismo en México y me parece un claro ejemplo de manipulación de opinión pública. Doy mis argumentos desde un punto de vista de Marketing. ¿Existe el racismo en México? Definitivamente la manera en la que han conducido este video no ayuda a determinarlo. En este post explico porqué. Cuando alguien realiza un […]
Ethics thoughts on how Big Tech uses our data to drive us to consume
A few weeks back I wrote in Random Friends and the Matrix Reloaded about how dangerous it is to blindly trust a source like the Internet How aware are we when it comes to the ethical dilema on how the information that is being shared by us online through social networks? How is this information […]