Author: Josh Garrett
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How Rockefeller Used Game Theory to Beat 18 Rivals Without a Fight
In 1872, in Cleveland, Ohio, 23 companies — 18 of them oil refineries — found themselves in the hands of one man, John D. Rockefeller, in less than a month. There was no bankruptcy, no price wars, no auction and no dramatic showdown. By the time most of Cleveland understood what was happening, it was…
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Singapore’s frictionless system
When you arrive in a new country, drained and tired, immigration feels like a hassle. With long queues and sluggish systems, it would be a miracle to move through immigration easily. Singapore integrated this miracle into its very systems. When we arrived, immigration merely presented us with sleek e-counters, with no immigration officers in sight.…
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The 4 lessons I did not expect to learn at YTS+
I still remember it clearly. A month back, my brother and I were huddled around my father’s laptop. Three options glowed back: “Robotics in Action”, “Data Science, Economics and Business” and “Biology Beyond Medicine”. These were the options offered by Plaksha University for their YTS+ Summer Camp. Promising hands-on, interactive learning in all these fields.…
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How I used AI to learn coding and make my Portfolio Website
Learning is a rather boring and mentally-draining task. Especially, when we don’t know exactly how to learn. And now with the dawn of Artificial Intelligence such as ChatGPT, we now have an easy way to avoid this weight of learning. However, more often than not, rather than using AI as a tool to aid our…
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What I learnt by coding my portfolio website
Recently, I decided to put into practice the things I have learnt in Coursera. After giving it some thought, I decided that making a Portfolio website would be the best. It makes sense to make this website first, a website to show my skills and document my my achievements to come. The Idea When I…
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How I practiced structuring my time through Homeschooling.
In my recent blog, I wrote about my experience in homeschooling, and what I learned in these 4 years of learning this way. One of the skills I wrote down that I acquired through my experience was time-management. Time management itself is a very useful skill to have. I accomplish more on those days that…
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What we have learnt from 4 years of homeschooling.
Four years ago, we as a family chose to make a decision, that would shape our education and future––for better or for worse. We decided to take the road less traveled, an uncertain path of homeschooling. To give you some context, it was 2021, and schools were forced to move online because of Covid-19. Because…
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The Broken Window Parable and What It Teaches Us.
Few fields are as riddled with fallacies as economics—not because the principles are flawed, but because the people applying them are. One of the reasons for the vast number of fallacies present in economics is simply due to the selfish nature of humans. Though each economic group would share a common desire with groups that…
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Beaches, breezes (and a couple of sneezes) — A short trip to Rameswaram.
The view was just… indescribable. We took a moment to simply admire it. The water was surprisingly fairly clear, which we hadn’t seen in any other beaches before.
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EV Market Analysis
As part of my weekly assignment to improve our analysis skills, my father gave me the EV Market, specifically the Indian EV Market to analyze. So This is an analysis of the EV Market in general and the EV market specifically in India. The purpose of this analysis is to find out if investment in…