I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
At times, straddling with all that I want to do feels like jujitsu Yet, this was an Executive course that was worth the effort Berkeley Exec Educations’ 8 week immersive online PM studio is one of those courses that justifies the weekends spent on course work Here are 5 key areas I took away from …
#Day4 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Understanding Bitcoin and Ethereum #1Bitcoin 101 : Created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto to be a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system, it is built on blockchain and thus shares the characteristics of being decentralised, immutable and open. It is also hard-capped (there will be only 21M bitcoin ever) and single-purpose ( …
#Day3 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Understanding Blockchain and How Transactions work #1 What is a Blockchain? ‘A blockchain is a linked list of transactions stored on a network of computers” A shared immutable ledger, if you will. #2 What are the defining properties of a Blockchain? They are ‘Decentralized’ (transactions happen on a network of …
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#Day2 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge On Ownership and how that is driving the future of software and Digital Economy #1 Why is Ownership the next step in software? “Ownership is a powerful motivator for users to contribute to products in deeper ways, be it with ideas, computing resources, code, or community building. … This results …
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Crypto has one feature that has never existed before – trust. – Ben Horowitz. I am doing a #30daysofWeb3 challenge in April. It is still early in the journey And the best thing you can do is to get educated. So here are 5 bullets on Day 1 – Why Web 3.0, Ownership and Tokens #1 Why …
The Constantly Diminishing Cost of Tech And how we take it for granted. I was telling my 6 year old about sifting through Encyclopedias to finish school projects She turned around and asked – ‘Why didn’t you just ask Alexa, Amma’. For a moment I recollected the trips to the store to buy floppy disks, …
How to compete when you don’t have a winning start? We shifted into a new neighbourhood when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Thanks to my mom who worked with the state government, we were eligible to a nice housing quarters that came with a huge jackfruit-trees-laden backyard. It also happened to be near …
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A kind soul summarized wisdom nuggets from 50 years of Warren Buffet’s shareholder letters Made me go back and look for the letters. Here is something he wrote this year. At 91. The Orangutan Effect “If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave …
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Morgan Housel asks brilliant questions. In his blog, he recently asked 6 questions. Ones that make you ponder over them. And learn something about yourself. The one that caught my fancy the most is – “What have you changed your mind about in the last decade?” The writer Derek Thomson, to whom the question was …
A willowy 21 year old stood at bus stop one evening. As the light faded, so did her confidence. She couldn’t see a single woman on the road. It was 1980 and women didn’t venture out of homes unaccompanied at 7PM. She tugged her bag closer. Finally she breathed a sigh of relief as she …
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