Saturday, 25 February 2023

Dear Premium Video Website

Step 1: Allow people to upload videos. 

Step 2: Run ads on those videos if the creators agree. 

Step 3: Run ads on all videos whether the creators agree or not

Step 4: Introduce a premium no-ads experience. 

Step 5: Make ads pernicious, until users have to pay you just to get rid of the nuisance value. 

Step 6: Make money from ads AND from subscription, but share a trickle, if that, with creators. 

Step 7: Someone makes an app that allows users to charge for content ab initio AND run ads at 50-50 rev share. 

Step 8: Creators go to that app. You live with millions of legacy videos. Just like your search, which is now incapable of answering many user queries, thanks to the SEO industry created by you, and the lazy crawling algos that relied on market monopoly and forgot about inherent crawling excellence. 

Step 9: Nothing. Game Over. 


Friday, 17 February 2023

 I was waiting for the lift. Next to me was a child in a pram, chaperoned by his grandmother. The child was staring at the display screen near the lift, and the grandmother, after a while, said, "TV dekh raha hai?"

That's when I looked up and realised that the child was looking at the TV screen. I came in front of the pram and started talking to the child. The child left the TV screen immediately and started focusing on me.


The lift came and both of us entered. We continued chatting - the child and I. When their floor came, the pram and the grandma exited, but the child's eyes remained glued to me.


it was a simple thing to happen - a neighbour chatting with a child in a pram. It has been done to my child by strangers so many times.



Today, to make it a better world, I will...

Today, to make it a better world, I will: 

A. Have a human interaction with someone - a real human interaction. 

B. Be kind to a child. 

C.