In 2012 Professor of Psychology Gote Nyman was the first to announce the concept of Internet of Behaviour (IoB). IoB today captures the enthusiasm of many. Covid-19 has changed how we used to behave socially. Tracking how people reacted to masks and social distancing helped us contain the pandemic and…

Face recognition systems started in 1960, Bledsoe developed a system to classify photos of faces. The system could record the coordinate location of various facial features. Then a matrix would be inserted into the database and the system would give a closely resembling photo. Why is this relevant? Because this…

Why are we addicted to our apps? Habit-forming is relevant today more than ever because we are addicted to our apps. Apps manipulate and motivate users to create beneficial behavior and are habit-forming. The more time we spend on the app chances are our searches will become more filtered and better…

So after much deliberation, I am ready to say that success is overrated. …

Two years ago I decided to limit my LinkedIn appearance to once a week which earlier was twice a day. I wondered how I went from a frequent user to a dormant one? …

The story of an Indian bride and the story of tasteless sexism that every woman goes through. Often I have told my mother that I don’t understand her devotion towards the unit called family and how she handles family related responsibilities. I have nothing against a family. We all need a clan. What I’m against is what goes on in a family in the name of love…

Saussure, Derrida, Elaine Showalter and the sign, signfier, and signified. — Who is at the center and what is the center? Derrida examines in his essay on Deconstruction. Saussure’s Theory of sign was a landmark concept in the theory of linguistics. …

Language has no meaning and language holds no truth. — For centuries knowledge has been used against the truth. Knowledge is the outer understanding that we have gathered about the world but it is not the truth. It’s a perception we have created from knowledge. Knowing something is the beginning of becoming a subject. Knowledge creates categories also. It is…

Derrida was born in 1930 in El Biar, Algeria, which was then a French colony. He was raised in a Jewish family and in 1942 during the Vichy regime, Derrida was forcibly excluded from his school life on the pretext of him being a Jew. Hence his essays stem from…