Is Patience a Great Virtue?

Patience is indeed a virtue, and not everyone possesses it. If you watch cricket, one of the greatest examples in cricket are the batting achievements of two people - Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. In a five match test series, these two hold the highest test runs scored in cricket - Gavaskar scored more than …

Input Credit & Output Liability of GST in India: GSTR1/2/3/2A/3B

Businesses in India have to charge customers a certain amount of tax on services and products as Goods and Services Tax (GST) depending on the category that they're selling to their B2C and B2B customers. If it is food, it is 5%, and if it is furniture, it is 18%, etc. Here is a detailed …

Top Coding Classes for Kids from Scratch to Cyber Security

The world around us, especially in the technology field, is changing really fast. In the early 80s, the tech world was nascent, and in the start of the 21st century, technology was getting adopted all around with personal computers and mobiles becoming the norm and that is when the digitization started, and now we entered …

Top levers to drive sales on Flipkart

If you want to be successful in ecommerce marketplaces, then you'll have to adhere to certain principles that each of the marketplaces have developed from learning from thousands of customers over these years. The leading platforms for ecommerce sales in Furniture segment are Flipkart, Pepperfry, and Amazon. There are many levers to drive sales of …

The Logic of Spirituality – part 2

The What of Spirituality We all have two selves, the Real-Self and the Ego-Self. We will go into the detail of what are exactly these, but firstly remember that attention can be focused on either of them. Normally, in our regular experience of life, we only experience of focusing our attention on the Ego-Self. So, …

Why are mobile pagespeed scores always lower than that of desktop?

If you check your website speed on Google PageSpeed Insights, it is more likely that the mobile scores are lower than desktop scores. In this post, we shall cover the details of why is mobile usually lower than desktop on scores. There are three main factors for this difference in Mobile vs. Desktop scores Google …

Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird are important animals for marketers!

If you heard about SEO and you've done a little bit of it, then chances are that you heard about these three animals. Sure, they're very important for our earth's ecology, but they're the most important Google algorithms for SEO ranking and hence for marketers. In its basic sense, Google's ranking algorithm started as a …

Encouraging Coding and STEM in Early Education

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are four main streams that influence solving the world’s problems. This doesn’t mean that streams such as English, Psychology, Communications, Finance and Economics don’t matter - what this means is that these four streams drive the logical thinking and problem solving ability to the most.  The proliferation of AI-digitization and …

Many Autistic Girls Are Not Classified For Autism Because They Don’t Fit The Model – by the Child Mind Institute

This is a Stanford research backed article originally written by the Child Mind Institute. Essentially, this is about why is autism penetration seems higher in boys, it is because the behaviour of girls who are autistic is very different and they escape the common diagnosis. The link to the original article is here: https://childmind.org/article/autistic-girls-overlooked-undiagnosed-autism/ Autism …

How Google Ads is changing with AI/ML Learning?

Traditionally, Google Ads had two major issues from advertisers: 1). that broad match is really really broad and Google wastes money on a lot of irrelevant clicks and 2). the bidding process has to be really a full-time job of one person monitoring the account, and only if you really monitor closely can you get …

The Return of the RX100, the original flagship of Yamaha

If you grew up in the 90s like me, then there is no denial that this bike would've left a mark on you. My uncle in my home used to ride this bike, and I learnt my first driving on this bike, and hence it is a bike really close to my heart. The rev …

What causes Autism and how is it different from ADHD/SPD?

Nobody knows why some children become autistic. But, science has seen some large correlations on the below factors at large. Below is the list of factors observed to have a high correlation (no one can really put a finger on the cause). Fevers during 12 week pregnancy: Mothers who had a fever during the second …

Debunking the Top 5 Myths about Online Loans

Online loans, otherwise called internet loans, are a convenient source of short-term financial solutions for individuals and small businesses. They can be a great way to access quick cash for unexpected expenses or to consolidate existing debt. Unfortunately, there are many myths about these loans that lead to confusion and can prevent people from leveraging the power …

The Logic behind “Spirituality”

Let's start with understanding "What is Ego?" Your ego is what initiates the voice within that "I am this...", "I know this... I know that...", "I am better at this than somebody else..."... "I am not better at this than somebody else" ... "I am bad at this"..."I want to be as better as him …

Why learning coding matters for kids?

Learning coding from kids coding websites has never been easier! There are multiple resources to learn coding from self-learning videos and forums to 1:1 classes and gamified learning. However, the first question - do kids really need to know coding? Well, coding is as essential as Maths and English for kids. There is no debate …

We just talk, we really don’t care about autism!

While we as a society, company, and individual really talk about "diversity", "inclusion", and blah blah. There is really no true sense of inclusion in the real world. The real world just doesn't care. Below is a picture of a mother and son. The son is 38 years old, non-verbal and heavily autistic. Now, just …

Distributor Profitability – How much margin to give to a distributor?

Assume you're a brand or a manufacturer trying to select a distributor for your business and the terms you'll be providing are a gross-margin of 5%, zero credit period (the credit period for the distributor is zero days from the manufacturer) and the average costs for the distributor is 2%. The distributor has to extend …

Consciousness & Dreamless Sleep according to Vedanta and Science

According to Vedanta, the fundamental nature of this universe is consciousness and everything else is a manifestation of it. Correspondingly, your true self is consciousness (atman) and the manifestation is ego-self (ahankara). Awareness (I know I exist) comes to us as a function of having this consciousness in us. Awareness is what develops when consciousness …

PPC Search Marketing – Keyword Match Types

Search Engine Marketing is a powerful platform to push your products in the search-engine listings. The grand-daddies in the "search" business are Google and Amazon with billions in revenue. With millions of products listed and huge amount of search inventory with Google and Amazon, all advertisers and sellers compete to get their products on top …

Cost of Capital, Debt:Equity Balancing, and Max Allowed Debt

Let's say you're in need of $1000 for some requirement, and you need to take a loan for the same. You approach various banks and you boil down to two banks: Bank A is ready to give you a maximum loan of $300 at 3% interest and Bank B is ready to give you a …