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#SystemsThinkingDay1 – Deconstructing Complex Systems – Hierarchy There were two watchmakers – Hora and Tempus. They both made fine watches and soon people were visiting their stores more often, and the orders for new watches were increasing in both stores. However, Horas’ business prospered over the years, but Tempus became poorer and poorer, eventually went …
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Book 28/52 2021 Book – An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared Genre – Science, LifeLessons #reviewswithranjani#podshortschallenge Rating – 4/5 Colonel Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian astrobaut to walk in space. In this highly entertaining book, he uses his years …
Are you Above Average? How Do We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance …
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What NOT to say in an email? LinkedIn News recently had an post about passive aggressive phrases to avoid in emails. Do you use any of these? – Per last email – For Future reference – Bumping this to the top of your inbox… – Just to be sure we are on the same page… …
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In one study, designers were tasked with creating a banner ad with one of 2 processes. Half were instructed to design “one ad at a time” – receiving feedback after each new design each time – 5 feedback yielding a total of 6 ads. The other half of designers were asked to use “a simultaneous …
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Elon Musk, Memes and Tesla In one of his Clubhouse appearances, Elon Musk was asked about his love of memes: “It is safe to say that you might be the master of the memes, and in fact you had a quote that “Who controls the memes controls the universe.” Can you just explain what you …
Crying babies, Women and Work. I heard such a relatable podcast this morning – sounds ridiculous yet true. NPR’s PLANET MONEY had this show where first up, a woman tries to buy from female-led companies not just for one breakfast picnic, but for a whole week and struggles through it. Women-led startups received just 2.3% …
In a majority of cases being an expert at Python or SQL alone doesn’t help. Driving value with data isn’t about tools or code alone. And this is an area I oft find as a huge gap. – Can you convert an output to an outcome? – Are you looking at the relevance of the …
The Future of Self Driving Cars you should know about – The ‘Uber model’ vs the ‘Self driving pods’ business model #Model1 Ride-sharing companies such as Uber, Lyft (partnering with Waymo) have been working on AI based autonomous tech These driver-less vehicles are considered Level 4 and Level 5 (a car that requires a human …
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I was talking to a start-up founder and was pleasantly surprised at how data informed their decisions were. There seems to be largely two kinds of startup founders – One who trusts data driven/data informed product building. And then those who use data and analytics as an after thought. As a founder, you get to …