I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
Why sometimes you need lead bullets. “Early in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape, we faced a terrible crisis. We just got our hands on Microsoft’s new web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), and benchmarked against our product. Microsoft’s IIS had every feature that we had, was five times faster …
AI singularity refers to an event where the AI either become self aware, or reach an ability for continuous improvement so powerful that it will evolve beyond our control’ It may be a far way out but one ponders about whether there will be a human advantage in a world disrupted by artificial intelligence? That …
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“Our genes are a predisposition, but our genes are not our fate” ‘Health’ and how can we live better – that is the theme of books I am reading this month. This is one of those best sellers that I have been meaning to read since I switched to a Whole Plant based diet last …
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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 …
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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The Voice in your head and the stories we tell ourselves ..Why did I miss adding the critical point during the presentation?…. …why hasn’t he called me back yet…. ” What I if let her go and she gets hurt… “As humans, we may talk to ourselves at a rate equivalent to speaking 4,000 words …
#spoileralert In a world far into a future – say we are faced with these 4 hypothetical questions. What will you choose to do? #1If you could choose to not see or feel physical beauty for a more equal world, would you choose to do so? #2What if you could increase your intelligence to super …
Aiming to be a Zero (And when you should be a Plus one) “Whenever you enter a new situation, whether this is a rocket ship or a meeting room or even a fresh personal relationship, you will be viewed as one of three things. “ A Minus One – actively harmful, someone who creates problems. …
Outer space is not the final frontier, our Brain is. Reverse engineering the human brain may be regarded as the most important project in history. Is the brain complex? In his book, Ray Kurzweil introduces the concept of *pattern recognition theory of mind*. (PRTM). He further draws an analogy to the famous Mandelbrot set, an …