Reading time: about 6 minutes Summary: Why Digital Health for an actuary? Digital disruption is transforming modern life leading to
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Author: Bala Joshi
BCE Part 3; Future is loading – fasten your seatbelt!
Summary: This part covers why BCE has potential to upset the future, both in terms of economic frameworks and social
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BCE Part 2: Why new-wealth created upends the social fabric
Summary: The primary goal of social structures: Wealth sharing! Agri-economy created the Kings, Churches based on myths Industrial evolution –
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Part 1 – Blockchain Eco (BCE) – heralding new social order?
Summary: BCE at right the time and right place? 7+ billion homo-sapience (us); will our social fabric hold good? Seeds
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Byzantine Generals Dilemma and Blockchain
Summary: Blockchain needs consensus within large number of nodes, Byzantine Generals Problem articulates the challenge Byzantine Generals Problem (BGP) is
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Blockchain Economy 101 – An actuary’s attempt to wade through BCE
Summary: Quite overwhelming sea of articles out there – links for quick learning – Highly recommend Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the
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Life Underwriting – adopting to a digital world
(Originally written on LinkedIn Aug 2018 – updated here with minor edits) Summary: Why does the traditional actuarial view feel
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AfterLife 3/4 – Leadership journey
Summary (reading time: about 9 minutes): Actuaries are traditionally considered taciturn, but that is changing along with changing world What
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AfterLife 2/4 – Future-proof professionalism
(Reading time: about 5 min) I had written about what next after actuarial qualification in the previous blog: AfterLife 1/4 –
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AfterLife 1/3 – I have qualified; what do I do now? Feels empty!
(Length: 1750 words; ~9 minutes) Summary: Qualification is only the beginning of a life-long journey! What kind of professional do
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