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Escalators vs Elevators: What Are You Building?

I first wrote a short version of this on LinkedIn in October 2014. Almost twelve years later, the question still feels relevant. So here’s a longer and more…

2026
The Human-in-the-Loop Paradox

Why I think the industry is betting on the wrong long-term architecture for AI. TL;DR For the last two years, “Human in the Loop” (HITL) has become the…

2026
Moore’s Law for AI

The world got rattled a few days back with the DeepSeek release of its latest model and how they have managed high performing models with significantly low compute…

2025
Building own RAG AI

In my journey to understand genAI better, spent a good part of last 5-6 weeks building a RAG AI chatbot platform. And what an amazing 1.5 months its…

2024
GenAI + Customer Service/Experience

GenAI for Customer Service is an obvious opportunity in 2024. In the Predictive vs Generative AI, the leapfrog has been the machine’s ability to understand commonly used human…

2024
Filter by Scale, Sort by Velocity – Building Momentum

For most organizations (startup or otherwise) building momentum might be the #1 goal. Increasing momentum on revenues, margins, customers, transactions, data-footprint etc etc. A big part of it…

2023
Using GenAI APIs to extract information from text

Spent half a day tinkering with GenAI (OpenAI) APIs to solve a real-world problem. Felt good to be coding after so many months. This was the 2nd attempt…

2023
Game Theory, No-Regret Plans and the role of Iceland in World War II

Game Theory and understanding options available Game theory provides a strong framework for strategic options in a dual player game. Options available both to self and the other…

2020
The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity – a16z Podcast

a16z podcast has had two very interesting episodes on the past, present and future of audio. This episode goes deeper into understanding the trends, why audio as a…

2020
How to find and keep True North | Susan Wojcicki – Masters of Scale

Serendipity Susan (YouTube CEO) was raised in the valley area as her dad taught at Stanford. She decides to not pursue her PhD but get an MBA instead.…

2020
The Playbook – A coach’s rules for life

Sports has been a very important part of my life. While, I didn’t manage to reach a level that would allow me to play my chosen sport(s) even…

2020
Masters of Search in the streaming era

Search Experience on Netflix, Amazon Prime and You Tube Across both audio and video formats, the online media consumption in our generation is higher than ever before. This…

2020
Understanding the power of gamification

For the last 2 weeks, I have been learning Spanish on Duolingo. It’s amazing. The Duolingo app is just phenomenally well designed for helping one go deeper into…

2020
Problem Framing and choice of adjectives – story of ventilators and sanitizers

Problem Framing is considered a crucial step in the development of a new solution/product or in problem solving. Yet, we miss spending enough quality time on this step,…

2020
Behavior Elasticity > Demand Elasticity. A quick Coffee Poll

We ran a quick poll for people who used to drink a coffee (or two) everyday at the barista next to their office, asking how WFH during COVID…

2020
Talpiot – Israel’s super school for military tech – lessons in sustainable innovation

Talpiot – the Super School I have always wondered how has Israel, given its challenges, managed to position itself as a leader in cutting-edge military tech. And it…

2020
Varying rates of digital adoption across send and receive-sides impact payment-flows

Very simplistically put, payment is the movement of money from A to B. And the world is becoming increasingly comfortable with money flow going digital. Whether its a…

2020
Find what’s really broken before fixing it

I enjoy coding. While I have a long way to go as a programmer, coding does put me in a zen kind of a state. The mix of…

2020