One Humor
Three Opinions
I donât live alone in my world â I just like to act like I do.
In my world, I am the only one who matters;
I am the only one I trust;
I am the only one who knows what is best.
Source: Inside the mind of someone who wonât take a fully approved vaccine
According to the National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, more than 54 per cent of Indiaâs population is below 25 years of age and 62 per cent of Indiaâs population is aged between 15 and 59 years.
This demographic dividend is expected to last for the next 25 years. With most of the developed world experiencing an aging population, India has the opportunity to supply skilled labour globally and become the worldâs skill capital.
However, the demographic advantage might turn into a demographic disaster if the skill sets of both new entrants and the existing workforce do not match industry requirements. Hence apart from skilling the workforce as per the industry requirements, we need to keep ourselves prepared for the upcoming challenges.
Source: Jobless growth to employment-rich growth
In the latest sign that the unfettered growth enjoyed by Chinaâs tech giants is coming to an end, Beijing has unveiled a raft of new regulations that reasserts the ruling Chinese Communist Partyâs authority over every aspect of its citizensâ digital lives.
Among the new regulations: a law that reduces the amount of time that children and teens are allowed to spend playing video games to just three hours per week, and a directive banning online celebrity fan clubs.
The new rules are part of a broader crackdown by Beijing against domestic tech titans like Tencent and Alibaba. âThe story of Chinese tech companies over the last 15 years is, they grew quickly and became innovative because they existed in this space that the state did not regulate and did not fundamentally understand,â says Adam Segal, the director of the digital and cyberspace policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. âNow it has clearly laid down the marker and said: That era is over.â
Source: Here's What to Know About China's Sweeping Tech Crackdownâand Why It Could Make U.S. Big Tech Regulation More Likely
Bonus (short Story)
Kafka & A little Girl
At 40, Franz Kafka who never married and had no children, walked through a Berlin park when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day & they would come back to look for her. The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.
"Thus began a story which until the end of Kafka's life. During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable. Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl. Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happiness home. A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written: "Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.
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Piyush Kamal
Ex-IRS, Economist, and a Published Author who loves to play at the intersection of Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and philosophy.
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