Saturday, January 05, 2019
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Factory Manufactured Homes
Modular Construction: A Housing Affordability Game-Changer? https://t.co/1f5Hnmv9JT via @Sightline
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
Freddie Mac pilots conventional financing for manufactured housing https://t.co/hz3KxaJfDK
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
How to build a prefab smart home from scratch https://t.co/PD1WxOy6sH via @Curbed
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
Can manufactured housing ease America’s affordable housing crisis? https://t.co/s0galgB3eR via @Curbed
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
Freddie Mac will now allow conventional financing for manufactured housing https://t.co/CeUhY9RwSj
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
These 8 Homes in Texas Will Convert You Into a Prefab Fanatic @dwell https://t.co/bx946kBqiC #newdwell #dwell
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
Are we ignoring, or outright banning, an affordable housing fix? https://t.co/A5ousbFG3C
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
A strong case for factory manufactured homes made by @MerrynSW https://t.co/OGmtHYL1uU Utterly convincing.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
Housebuilding should be confined to factories https://t.co/OGmtHYL1uU via @financialtimes
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Google Walkout Organizers: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
This is not about technology. This is about group dynamics. This is about deliberately creating such an environment. It won't just happen. And the best time to make that move in a corporation is when it is being birthed. Much of the corporate culture gets decided pretty early. You are talking round one. You are talking pre-launch.
@GoogleWalkout Organizers @clairewaves @tanuja822 @mer__edith @sparker2 @EricaAmerica @amrtgaber Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is https://t.co/1pMRoigC20 #googlewalkout #genderparity
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 3, 2019
Sunday, December 23, 2018
GoFundMe: My Twitter Campaign (2)
I am building a company that will have Board representation for employees and will be at least 40% female. How would you like to help me? https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #extremepoverty #endpoverty #genderparity
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 23, 2018
@_waleedshahid Can you help me get through to @Ocasio2018 about this? https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #dollaraday #extremepoverty #reimagine #endpoverty #genderparity This is about reimagining the corporation. pic.twitter.com/dBu8poplDb
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 23, 2018
Hello @GoogleWalkout @clairewaves I am building a company that will have 30% Board representation for employees and will be at least 40% female. How would you like to help me? https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #diyalo #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #endpoverty #genderparity
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 23, 2018
@mer__edith Reimagine the corporation! #googlewalkout Just Give! https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #dollaraday #extremepoverty #reimagine #endpoverty #genderparity #employeesonBoard pic.twitter.com/xU0amCyGFQ
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 23, 2018
@sparker2 Let's reimagine the corporation. 30% employee representation on the Board. 40% female team (at least). #googlewalkout https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #extremepoverty #reimagine #endpoverty #genderparity pic.twitter.com/n5lkGVUzHw
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 23, 2018
My 30-30-30-10 formula predates the #googlewalkout, by the way. @karaswisher @GoogleWalkout Reimagine the corporation. https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW @EricaAmerica @mer__edith @sparker2 @clairewaves @amrtgaber @tanuja822 #corporatestructure #corporatestructure pic.twitter.com/PSv94XehZH
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 23, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
GoFundMe: My Twitter Campaign (1)
Hello. @SenWarren, I am doing voluntarily what you want done through force of law. Give me some wind (publicity). https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW @GovHowardDean @BernieSanders @SenKamalaHarris @JenMetzgerNY @LiuNewYork @BarackObama @RepJeffries
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
The corporation needs to be reimagined https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW @elonmusk @randizuckerberg @sherylsandberg @sundarpichai @satyanadella @naveen @adobe @TechCrunch @mashable @engadget @WIRED @RWW @johnbattelle Give me some wind. @RonConway @aplusk
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
In the early stages, my Foundation will focus on writing checks to charity organizations like yours @charitywater @Kiva @UNICEF @Wikipedia @khanacademy @gatesfoundation @BillGates @melindagates, so give me a shoutout. https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
Congressmember @Ocasio2018, can I get a shoutout? https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW We need to reimagine the corporation, don't you think? #diyalo #corporatestructure pic.twitter.com/ormSSWhQPd
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
@salokya How would you like to do a write-up on my tech startup? https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #diyalo #corporatestructure pic.twitter.com/y8Ub6h6RYY
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
To that add a new corporate structure? https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
@jack @ev @biz Give https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #diyalo #corporatestructure pic.twitter.com/u8FoO8x5E8
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
Just Give! https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #foundation #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #dollaraday #extremepoverty #reimagine @JeffBezos @BillGates @WarrenBuffett @larryellison @MikeBloomberg pic.twitter.com/7ugR2KuWTG
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
Just Give! https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #foundation #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #dollaraday #extremepoverty #reimagine @reliancegroup @gautam_adani @ArcelorMittal @ChaudharyGroup pic.twitter.com/Vkg4OGz0rA
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
My corporation intends to be at least 40% female. @sherylsandberg I say, #LeanIn Just Give! https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #foundation #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #dollaraday #extremepoverty #endpoverty @JessicaMah @jessicaalba pic.twitter.com/Hmq7kCakUH
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
@kortina @lessin Just Give! https://t.co/cmUkOz88RW #charity #diyalo #foundation #gofundme #techstartup #corporatestructure #globalsouth #dollaraday #extremepoverty #reimagine #endpoverty @samyem @AnupKaphle @naveen @dens @iqramband pic.twitter.com/T80BEeQ2Qo
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 21, 2018
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Go Fund Me: Reimagine The Corporation
I'm raising money for Reimagining The Corporation. Click to Donate: https://t.co/Ozrl3PJHja via @gofundme
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 20, 2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Thursday, November 22, 2018
In Defence Of Facebook
Facebook is not the next Facebook, and Google is not the next Google, although some of Google's so-called moonshot projects are quite impressive, and in the pipeline.
Today I make free video calls to my parents in Nepal, thanks to Facebook Messenger, although it is true there are others like it. When I showed up for college in Kentucky, and the Internet was the new kid on the block, I had to pay something like two dollars per minute to call my parents. The college phone service was a monopoly. VOIP was unheard of. So when a few years later I came across 20 cents per minute deals, it felt like rocket science to me. Also, at that work study college, you were legitimately paid way below minimum wage. Which meant a week's wages could easily be spent on one conversation. :)
In my home village in Nepal, one of my failed initiatives was to launch a library. It did not fail. We did collect a few books. I donated most of it. But it did not take off as envisioned. Well, in that village today you can get a phone with a data plan. And, boom, there is a library called Google.
The tech giants are subject to public criticism, sure, why not. But let's maintain perspective.
The Big Four -- Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook --- have collected a lot of data on each of us. True. But what would be the best next step? I think data portability. The data around each person is a personal oil well. It will pay for Universal Basic Income.
FACEBOOK BOARD DEFENDS HOW ZUCKERBERG, SANDBERG HANDLED CRISIS
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
John Battelle Has Hit Oil
Don’t Break Up The Tech Oligarchs. Force Them To Share Instead.
The idea is simply this: Require all companies who’ve reached a certain scale to build machine-readable data portability into their platforms. ....... that one rule, that one requirement: That every data service at scale had to stand up an API that allowed consumers to access their co-created data, download a copy of it (which I am calling a token), and make that copy available to any service they deemed worthy? ...... the example of a token that has all your Amazon purchases, which you then give to Walmart so it can do a historical price comparison and tell you how much money you would save if you shopped at its online service. ..... I mean, don’t we at least co-own the information about what we bought at Amazon? ...... Why can’t an ecosystem of agents, startups, and data brokers emerge, a new industry of information processing not seen since the rise of search optimization in the early aughts, leveraging and arbitraging consumer information to create entirely new kinds of businesses driven by insights currently buried in today’s data monopolies? ...... It’s be a lot like the Internet was once imagined to be. ...... it could dwarf our current Internet in terms of overall value created ..... tens of thousands of new companies would form, all of them feeding off the newly liberated oxygen of high quality, structured, machine readable data.
Data Could Drive a Small Business Renaissance. But First, We Have to Free It.
The intents, desires, and needs of tens of millions of consumers, who relentlessly poured their queries into Google’s placid and unblinking search box. ..... Adwords was a freaking revolution, but it ain’t nothing compared to what will happen if we unleash data tokens on the world. ...... what happens when local entrepreneurs have access to the information currently silo’d across thousands of walled garden services like Uber, LoopNet, Resy, and of course Facebook and Google ...... dry cleaners, hardware stores, bike shops — and this newly liberated class of information enables an explosion of efficiency, investment, and, well, flourishing in what has become, over the past four decades, a stagnant SMB environment. ..... this new competitive force will drive everyone to play at a higher level, focusing not on moats built on data silos, but instead on what really matters: A highly satisfied customer. That’s certainly Michelle’s goal, and the goal of every successful local business. Why shouldn’t it also be the goal of the data giants?
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
A Self Driving Delivery Car Needs To Look Different
The car needs to be redesigned. A self driving delivery car does not need a windscreen. It needs to be shaped different, more like a box, a box with aerodynamics. The receiver should be able to scan a code and the car should spit out that particular package. In the back. This could be the next big thing since, well, online delivery itself.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Technology Is But Tool
Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’ https://t.co/RRfITmw9aw
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 12, 2018
When I was back at I.I.T., I had access to the computer so rarely — maybe I’d been on it three or four times. To come and just have these labs in which you had access to computers and you could program, it was a big deal to me. I was so wrapped up in that, that to some extent I didn’t understand there was a much bigger shift happening with the internet.
There is nothing inherent that says Silicon Valley will always be the most innovative place in the world. There is no God-given right to be that way. But I feel confident that right now, as we speak, there are quietly people in the Valley working on some stuff which we will later look back on in 10 years and feel was very profound. We feel we’re on the cusp of technologies, just like the internet before.
Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems. It was always naïve to think so. Technology is an enabler, but humanity has to deal with humanity’s problems.
Technology is but tool. The tool can be used either way.