I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
Sometimes it may feel like nothing is really the way it should be. Or that there is no progress. One of the books I read had a great rule to add perspective – The 10–10–10 rule makes long-term thinking easy and practical. … Think not only about how you feel in the moment, but also ten …
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I thought this was a great reminder. Growing up, I constantly struggled with anxiety of not doing enough. Of not being enough. Maybe it was the pressure to prove myself to my parents. Or probably self-inflicted. But there was this constant voice at the back of my head. Not smart enough. Not pretty enough. Not …
‘Cryptocurrencies have 4 times more investors than mutual funds’ in India A CREBACO study claims that the total number of cryptocurrency investors in India is 10.5 crore with investments of over $10 billion That is as opposed to 2.6 crore unique mutual fund investors. The government, has indicated that it plans to regulate cryptocurrencies to prevent investors …
Did you know the fascinating story behind why we don’t pay for a web browser? Or how Mozilla got its name At that point in time, accessing the internet was a closed academic thing. “The key technical people didn’t want the internet to become easy to use or graphical because that would pollute the environment” …
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A GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) was called out as the ‘most interesting idea in ML in the last 10 years’ Think of them as a model that can generate new content. It has 2 networks – a generator and a discriminator. The generator creates fake samples and tries to fool the discriminator into believing that …
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I was recently re-watching the series, House. There is this episode featuring a doctor who gave up on her cancer research when she was quite close to figuring a cure. She decides to drop it all one fine day – to become a sous chef and attend book clubs. There is a lot of discussion …
AI isn’t 42. It isn’t the answer to everything. ‘Can we use AI to…..’? is something one hears oft. We’ll use AI to solve it, say startups, to gnarly problems A human centric approach to designing AI starts, rightly so, with the user problem in focus’ ‘How can we solve for x?’ ‘Can AI solve …
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The unheard story of how we almost blew the vaccine Have you wondered how the COVID vaccine got to the hands of the general population so incredibly quickly? Here is the brilliant story of an immigrant who refused to give up – thankfully so. Their breakthrough saved the world from the worst of the pandemic—and …
“Jan is managing a new team, and she notices that one of her team members, Carl, is using a new piece of software incorrectly. She offers him some advice and returns to her work. But later, she notices that he’s still misusing it. So, she decides to sit with him until he gets it right. …
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The rise of the FANG companies is no accident. They are all connected on one common thread – The Aggregation theory. So how does this winning playbook work?….. This is from one of my favorite strategy blogs – Stratechery. Here is a summary in 5 points – The value chain for any given consumer market …