I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
The Constantly Diminishing Cost of Tech And how we take it for granted. I was telling my 6 year old about sifting through Encyclopedias to finish school projects She turned around and asked – ‘Why didn’t you just ask Alexa, Amma’. For a moment I recollected the trips to the store to buy floppy disks, …
If you are a founder, the first stage of creating a network is by far the hardest. Slack isn’t useful until your colleagues are also on the platform. Uber isn’t useful until there are enough drivers, who won’t drive until there are enough rides. It is a chicken and egg situation that Andrew Chen calls …
How to compete when you don’t have a winning start? We shifted into a new neighbourhood when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Thanks to my mom who worked with the state government, we were eligible to a nice housing quarters that came with a huge jackfruit-trees-laden backyard. It also happened to be near …
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What is the most useful article you have ever read? Sequoia Capital did a 39 part series spread out over a couple of years around ‘Data Informed Product Building’ It covers almost everything one can think of around how products evolve, defining product health, frameworks for success to pitfalls in diagnosing health and setting metrics. …
What happens when AI becomes sentient? Is AI really the evil force driving towards a dystopian future? “From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend watches the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. Klara remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose …
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‘First-level thinking says, “It’s a good company; let’s buy the stock.” Second-level thinking says, “It’s a good company, but everyone thinks it’s a great company, and it’s not. So the stock’s overrated and overpriced; let’s sell.” First-level thinking says, “I think the company’s earnings will fall; sell.” Second-level thinking says, “I think the company’s earnings …
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A kind soul summarized wisdom nuggets from 50 years of Warren Buffet’s shareholder letters Made me go back and look for the letters. Here is something he wrote this year. At 91. The Orangutan Effect “If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave …
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Why everyone needs a personal moat to accelerate their career? One of my favourite newsletters is the Morning Brew Alex Lieberman, the founder recently did a podcast of the topic of building a personal moat What is a moat, you ask? A business moat is a key competitive advantage that sets a company apart from …
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Morgan Housel asks brilliant questions. In his blog, he recently asked 6 questions. Ones that make you ponder over them. And learn something about yourself. The one that caught my fancy the most is – “What have you changed your mind about in the last decade?” The writer Derek Thomson, to whom the question was …
A willowy 21 year old stood at bus stop one evening. As the light faded, so did her confidence. She couldn’t see a single woman on the road. It was 1980 and women didn’t venture out of homes unaccompanied at 7PM. She tugged her bag closer. Finally she breathed a sigh of relief as she …
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