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AI isn’t 42. It isn’t the answer to everything. ‘Can we use AI to…..’? is something one hears oft. We’ll use AI to solve it, say startups, to gnarly problems A human centric approach to designing AI starts, rightly so, with the user problem in focus’ ‘How can we solve for x?’ ‘Can AI solve …
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“Jan is managing a new team, and she notices that one of her team members, Carl, is using a new piece of software incorrectly. She offers him some advice and returns to her work. But later, she notices that he’s still misusing it. So, she decides to sit with him until he gets it right. …
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What is the origin of the term Metaverse? Have you read of Snowcrash? It’s one of Naval’s recommended readings. A 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson’s 1992 first coined the term – Metaverse It was used to describe a place where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional virtual space that uses the …
“By 2023, 75% of organizations that exploit distributed enterprise benefits will realize revenue growth 25% faster than competitors” – Gartner #3 Distributed Enterprise – Top Technology Trends 2022 1) WHY – Gartner pegs two reasons for the rise of this trend a) COVID driven remote-first working had organizations require different tools and increased …
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“Research shows that up to 74% of data is not analyzed in most organizations and up to 82% of enterprises are inhibited by data silos” Top Technology Trends 2022 – #2 Data Fabric 1) WHAT : A data fabric architecture provides a connective tissue between data endpoints— enabling the full breadth of data management capabilities …
Top Technology Trends 2022 – #1 Generative AI “By 2025, generative AI will account for 10% of all data produced, from less than 1% today” 1) WHAT : Generative AI refers to “programs that can use existing content like text, audio files, or images to create new plausible content”. In layman terms, it enables computers …
What are 4 Big Ideas that Fintech Will Tackle in 2021 The a16z fintech team weighs in – Read more about the top trends and what is driving them #1 Disintermediating the banking system > Banks usually serve as intermediaries between the consumer and the government. > Fintech, the article states, allows governments to remove …
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#SystemsThinkingDay2 – Why do people often sacrifice resilience for productivity or some other immediately recognizable system property? Injections of genetically engineered bovine growth hormone increase the milk production of a cow without proportionally increasing the cow’s intake. The hormone diverts some of the cow’s metabolic energy from other bodily functions to milk production. …
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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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