Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation).  In the last week of September 2026, I shared an excerpt titled ‘Tribal Instincts – Secret to our Success depending on how we manage them’, which is from the book titled – ‘Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts that Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together’ by Dr.Michael Morris.   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation).  In the last week of August 2026, I shared an excerpt titled ‘Internet – Veracity and Virality and Why Every Thing We do Matters’, which is from the book titled – ‘LikeWar – The Weaponization of Social Media’ by Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking. This book traces the   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation).  In the last week of May 2026, I shared an excerpt titled ‘Contingent Convergence and Why Every Moment Matters’, which is from the book titled – ‘Fluke’ – Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas. In his book Brian points that Contrary to our   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation).  In the first week of May 2026, I shared an excerpt titled ‘Control Theory and its Underpinning’, which is from the book titled – ‘Human Compatible – AI and the Problem of Control’ by Stuart Russell. Russell suggests that we can rebuild AI on a new foundation, according   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation).  In the last week of March 2026, I shared an excerpt titled ‘Thought, Perception and The Hidden Dimension’, from the book – ‘The Hidden Dimension’ by Edward T. Hall. The central theme of the book is social and personal space and man’s (Human being) perception of it.It highlighted   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation).  In the last week of February 2026, I shared an excerpt titled ‘Ways to Think About Economy in the 21st Century’, which is from the book titled – ‘Doughnut Economics’ – Seven Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist by Kate Raworth. It highlighted, “What if we   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation).  In the last week of December 2025, I shared some excerpts from a message that I came across by Dr. Robert Svoboda. He is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. The key message was – To   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Four weeks ago, I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Making Accurate Predictions and Uncertainty’ from the blog-post titled ‘Can We Make More Accurate Predictions in Economics?’ by Ayubkhon Azamov writer, translator and educator with a background in economics.In this episode we drew attention to the point that our   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week, I shared an excerpt titled – ‘Conversations and Community’ from the book titled ‘The Argument Culture’ by Deborah Tannen, a distinguished university professor in the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University and author of many books and articles about how the language of everyday conversation affects relationships.   →

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation). Last week, I shared an excerpt titled – ‘The Power of Words – Rhetoric and Reality’ from the book titled ‘The Axemaker’s Gift’ – Technology’s capture and control of our minds and Culture by James Burke and Robert Ornstein. In this episode we drew attention to the fact   →