I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
One wouldn’t be able to view any man-made object in the same way after reading this. You’d find principles of design pop up anytime you love or hate how any item, website or application you use feels “Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom …
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How do company’s build the escape velocity to move beyond the successes and pull from the past? Geoffrey Moore’s Stanford video is hands-down the best use of an hour of my weekend. We have examples of companies that failed to do so in time. Think Blackberry – from a 20% market share in 2009 to …
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Becoming better – One thing I learnt in the last 3 months. I made a couple of personal changes – started a Decision Log and focused on Deliberate Practice. And this is what I have learnt That I am not as good as I thought I was. Across areas – from Strategy, Leadership, Communication to …
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Are Machines and NFT’s the Future of art and music? Mitosis is a two-minute video loop made up of over 750,000 faces continually being generated by a GAN. It is under bidding at Sotheby’s for ~76K USD as a curated NFT. The owner Mario Klignemann has used an endlessly moving and changing artwork – images …
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“I am working hard to stay abreast of advances in tech. Yet it seems like I am stuck at the same place while I see start-up founders half my age crushing it”. ‘Will I ever get ahead of the curve?’ This was from a mid-management professional. There is a term for this – The Red …
What you’ll wish you’d known as a high school student. Do you have people you have never met who teach you a lot? For me, Paul Graham is one of them. Highly unlikely I would ever meet him. Of all the exceptional things he blogs about, one thing I highly recommend is his ‘almost given …
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Selling digital shirts, NFT’s and the emergence of virtual economy in metaverses Ralph Lauren is now letting people buy digital clothing for their avatars within a virtual world in a new collaboration with Zepeto. Zepeto is the South Korean social network and its 200 million users that interact in a virtual world. Ralph Lauren’s first …
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Having worked in Pricing earlier, one thing that always catches my eye is how brands use price discrimination It is essentially a way of ‘How can I identify people who are willing to pay more’. A good example of this is the one highlighted by the behavioral economist in ‘The Undercover Economist’ …
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“Remember hearing about the internet? Get ready for the metaverse” Have you ever had this experience of buying a new car and then suddenly seeing the same model everywhere you go? There is a reason why it happens. The part of the brain is apparently called the Reticular Activation System (RAS). Think of it as …
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On Friday, Musk unveiled the manifestation of most sci-fi novels – Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot More than what the bot’s capabilities is to understand what this implies to us and the future of the world if this does succeed and scale “Our cars are like semi-sentient computers on wheels’ And that is the basis …