The HEAP (Healthcare, Economics, Anthropology and Performance Engg) blogs

I have not done any justice to ‘economics’ part of my H E AP blog. Not that I ever had any special credentials to brag about. In fact I found it a very boring subject in my college. Though, it is very fascinating as an after-thought.   i.e. after the boom or bust books continue to be published for decades. Every country seems to have a top economic adviser drafting some eclectic policy, which is nowhere visible in ground level activities. I would like to bring forth an alternate view of economics, which of course is very much colored by my performance engineering experiences and perspectives. To me economics is about generating denominated transactions between living beings and entities. Almost similar but no exactly like standard definition of- the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. To generate transactions, living entities need to flog natural resources and somebody else needs to consume them to complete the circ...

Common marketing tool used for big data is that human mind is unable to analyze when more than 7 variables are involved. That seems an overstretch when I see many discussions where there is struggle with just one variable. This topic of complexity is of great interest to me because I see this as main driver of human and technical evolution. Further in my profession of performance engineering it is at abundant display. Complexity is an invariable outcome of wide and conflicting demands and finding solutions for everything in one product/service. At philosophical level complexity of products and services is a reflection of human being and nature's complexity and diversity. Real life complexity At more mundane level, at which I operate there is love-hate relationship between compexity and simplicity. Those who master complexity feel vastly entitled while those challenged by complexity loathe it and profess superiority of simplicity aka common sense. I feel I would be prej...