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Posts Tagged ‘skimpy

Selfish Genes and Shafting Shareholders

Posted by: Aadisht on: March 2, 2010

Has anybody made the connection between genes and the principal-agent problem? Richard Dawkins wrote a whole book about how we are but machines to reproduce genes, and in Genome, Matt Ridley quotes Bill Hamilton saying that the genome is like “a company boardroom”. But I haven’t ever seen the analogy being made explicit, so I’ll [...]

The First Bangalore Photowalk

Posted by: Aadisht on: April 18, 2008

After the grand success of the Sennai potowalks, Skimpy is organising the first ever Bangalore photowalk. Details below: Time and Date: 8 a.m., on Sunday 27 April Venue: K R Road, from K R Market to Gandhi Bazaar All are welcome, regardless of city, caste, or camera. You can show up if you have a [...]

How Not to Design an Airport

Posted by: Aadisht on: February 18, 2008

Ramesh Ramanathan is fuming about Bangalore’s new airport being underdesigned and underconnected (via Ajay Shah’s excellent roundup on infrastructure). As is happening far too often these days, Skimpy beat me to blogging about the main topic. However, that just gives me more stuff to discuss. In fact, I’ll make the whole post an outsider-layperson-dummy’s guide [...]

More Mommyblogger Mockery

Posted by: Aadisht on: January 12, 2008

The Mad Momma asks: Why is it alright to be openly intolerant of children? It’s for the same reason it is alright to be openly intolerant of anything – salwar kameezes, Shashi Tharoor’s writing, chicory-blended coffee, and so on. Freedom of speech are there. Or as Skimpy famously put it, I am a free citizen [...]

DU Economics

Posted by: Aadisht on: January 9, 2008

Skimpy has been writing about how people with an Economics background from Delhi University have abysmal conceptual clarity about the subject. Ok I guess I’m likely to get flak for that comment about the “BA types”. I’ve had the opportunity to interact with a few Economics toppers (undergrad)  from Delhi University. And I’ve found them [...]