Sridhar Vembu

Feeling miserable is a form of self-indulgence. Happiness is a choice. I learn this daily here, when I see people whose life struggles are a million times worse than anything I have faced and yet they smile and bring cheer to other people. They teach me 🙏

During my last visit to Ballia, UP to visit the DSET Public School in Karnai village, which we are happy to support, I met the DM as well as the Chief Development Officer. The CDO Aojasvi Raj IAS has been keeping me apprised of developments there. I keep track of this region…

So many of our employees commute to and from the office in Force Motors vans. I am typing this from one right now! We are very happy to partner with them. Thank you Force Motors!🙏

Pure mathematics, carnatic music, bharatanatyam, classical art, sculpture, chess or go, mridangam, classical poetry, fine cooking - what is common to all of them? (apart from the fact that I am not good in any of them 😁, at least I get to appreciate some of them) We need…

The miracle of China's transformation from the "cheap labor, cheap goods" label to world-leading tech-driven industrial prowess is dawning on America's elite. We in India must study China like a diligent student. Unfortunately the ideas that dominate the Indian corporate world…

We are excited to announce that Al-Ahli Football Club of Saudi Arabia that won the 2025 AFC Asia cup will be using the Zoho Customer Experience (CX) suite to enhance their fan engagement and experience. I want to thank Al-Ahli FC for this partnership 🙏

Socialism means the government redistributing economic resources. The whole "compassion" argument is a smokescreen for expanding government power over economic resources. It has failed spectacularly everywhere it has been tried, including the version tried in India. The…

I want to add that Singapore, one of the most advanced economies in the world and one of the most livable cities, relies extensively on public transport. Singapore also limits the number of private cars through the mechanism of open market trading of Certificate of Entitlement…

On our big city traffic woes. Extraordinary investment in public transport is required to make our cities work. That brings up a fundamental issue: I believe the investment required *per capita* to support high density scales with the population (that leads to total investment…

"We can't mix up everything and then later complain everything is mixed up!" I said this to an engineer in the context of a system that is too complex because it has to handle everything. I did not specifically mean LLMs but then realised LLMs intentionally mix up everything and…

"To build anything that truly lasts, it takes time" The theme of our new campaign, in English and Hindi, and soon in other languages. Praval Singh and our marketing team have done a great job. Thank you Praval 🙏

Even a system full of smart people can be meta-stupid. As one concrete example, look at what happened at prestigious universities. The smart people end up supplying the endless rationalizations to keep the meta-stupidity from being challenged and that reinforces…

There is a vast Bharat that is not obsessed about prestigious credentials, not obsessed about speaking perfect English, not obsessed about enrolling 11 year old kids (yes!) in JEE or NEET coaching and not obsessed about the stock market - it is talent from that Bharat that has…

There cannot be any national sovereignty without technology sovereignty.

Today the monsoon winds are so strong in our village, a palm tree fell. These are very strong trees, so strong they are used in traditional homes as cross beams. They even withstand cyclones. This one appears to have a weakened base when we examined it. This is on the path I…

Any large organization, be it a large company or government, is subject to the "head does not know what the tail is doing" problem. Whatever schemes or projects that governments envision at the central or state level, by the time they reach a remote village, they get diluted,…

I submitted the content of my previous post on AI and employment to Google Gemini. Link below. It expands on what I said and adds some nuances (like the cost of energy to produce the goods or run the AI, which are substantial and won't be zero). g.co/gemini/share/1…

On the subject of AI and jobs: Hypothetically, if all software development were to be automated - I want to emphasize that we are _nowhere_ close to that goal - and all software engineers such as myself are out of work, it is not like human beings will have nothing to do. The…