Bed of Procrustes
The Bed of Procrustes is a metaphor for fitting reality to meet the reality to our internal narratives rather than the other way around. When we confront our Bed, better to discard it than to behave like Procrustes.
The Bed of Procrustes is a metaphor for fitting reality to meet the reality to our internal narratives rather than the other way around. When we confront our Bed, better to discard it than to behave like Procrustes.
To survive we need to avoid fragility and to thrive we need to embrace optionality.
This blog is about serendipity and why it is important to our endeavors.
In this blog, I talk about the non-linearity in some models and give some examples of non-linearity.
In this blog, I write on businesses/ professions that operate in Extremistan and Mediocristan. I also explain supply side constraints that exist in Mediocristan. And finally I write TCS operates in Mediocristan.
The idea of Extremistan and Mediocristan is powerful and can help find investment ideas.
We need to learn from mistakes – ours and others.
Russian Roulette is a metaphor for gambling foolishly. The Credit Rating Agencies were playing Russian Roulette by not awarding to IL&FS.