Opinion: ‘PeeGate' And Random Risks To Reputation

Randomness or the quality of being random lies in the lack of predictability or a pattern. Flipism or the classic coin flip is the metaphorical example of randomness.

Random events can trigger life-altering effects. Noted essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is more of an epistemologist of randomness, exalts the 'underestimation of the role of randomness in life' in his book 'Fooled by Randomness'. Taleb makes a statement around the bigger role of uncertainty, probability, and randomness - some may call it 'chance' in our lives and businesses - and how humans try to clothe random events with reason, making them appear non-random.

Looking from the lens of randomness brings in focus a random act recently on a random Air India flight involving two random passengers. When many flights take off and land every day all over the globe and millions of people fly in and out, it is only per chance that the unfortunate incident called "PeeGate" occurred. This was followed by