I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
“What is it that decides what organs shall suffer from cancer?” Siddhartha Mukherjee, the renowned oncologist, talks about the need to re-evaluate how we treat diseases(I have a huge nerd crush on the guy!) Existing model of disease treatment : “Have disease, target it, kill disease” The dominance of this model is due to the …
Can we cure diseases of the future by a cell and not a pill? Read More »
The rise of the No Code / Low Code market in 2021 And what does this imply to us? Low/no-code development platforms “expedite the creation of new applications with minimal coding requirements and offer tools for nonprogrammers. How? By relieving them of the need to write code line by line. This also puts some form …
Like my professor used to state – ‘Network effects is one of the biggest barriers to entry’ Context – https://www.ft.com/content/ee1b716d-4ed2-4b26-8da1-40c98db7b9b6
How fast is 5G? With 3G, it takes forty-five minutes to download a high-definition movie. 4G shrinks that to twenty-one seconds. But 5G? It takes longer to read this sentence than it takes to download that movie. In his latest book, Peter Diamandis, calls out 5G as one of the converging technologies that can disrupt …
“If our long term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds” – Carl Sagan It is inescapable as the laws of physics that humanity will one day confront some type of extinction-level event. If we scan all life-forms that have ever existed on the Earth …
#ReviewswithRanjani #PODSHORTS Genre – NonFiction – Innovation Book 38/52 Book – Medici Effect, What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation The Medici Effect : What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation Diversity drives innovation – We’ll today talk about how break through insights lies at the intersection of ideas, fields …
Imagine a terrible epidemic has broken out in a community and you are the healthcare strategist in charge for taking action. It is believed that 600 lives are at stake and you could choose between one of two vaccines The first vaccine will definitely save 200 lives The second vaccine is experimental and has a …
How the frame of reference defines risk and innovation Read More »
I’ve been doing this online course from Stanford on ‘Leading Innovation‘ which has some really interesting interviews. As part of the module that talks about the differences between creative and routine work, the professor introduces IDEO’s former partner Diego Rodriguez and his 21 principles for Innovation. The 19th principle is to ‘Be remarkable’. This is …
“How do we distribute wealth in a world where humans do not work?” There is a lot of buzz around our future. Mankind’s future. On Singularity. On AI. On misinformation around AI. The hype around Deep Learning. On Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the arguments for and against it. And most importantly on the anxiety …
On the Future of Work and How Machines aren’t necessarily destroying it Read More »
We hear about the term Block chain way too often to ignore it any more. And more often that not, it is referred to with negative connotations sans basis. And no I am not just talking about it in relation to Bitcoins or Cryptocurrency. I am referring to the technology driving Bitcoins – Blockchain. Blockchain …
Blockchain 101 – Explaining block chain to a 7th grader Read More »