Ideas
Using GenAI APIs to extract information from text
September 28, 2023
AI + Experiments + Ideas
Spent half a day tinkering with GenAI (OpenAI) APIs to solve a real-world problem. Felt good to be coding after…
Talpiot – Israel’s super school for military tech – lessons in sustainable innovation
May 04, 2020
Books + Ideas + Military + Problem Solving
Talpiot – the Super School I have always wondered how has Israel, given its challenges, managed to position itself as…
Migrating away from cash is intimidating – Stickiness of Cash Part 2
May 01, 2017
Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Financial Services + Financial Inclusion + Financial Services + Ideas + Payments + Mobile Payments + Payments
Ask any payment professional, and while they might disagree on what’s the best payment experience, they would all agree that…
Beyond Big Data – A Small and fast data example
November 14, 2016
Digital + Ideas + Product Management
Big Data is all the rage. Everywhere you go, any meeting or presentation one sits through, Big Data seems to…
Good rules should be designed for higher adoption
September 30, 2016
Case study + Ideas + Leadership + Most Popular + Product Management
How do we drive adoption for rules in a community, or even at a country level ? Should a good…
Showing Contact Addresses in Google Maps
December 23, 2015
Digital + Ideas + Product Management
Quick Summary: Here’s a small product feature recommendation for Google Maps on Android. Currently when I am in Google Maps…
Easier to be Krishna than to be Arjun
September 15, 2015
Case study + Ideas + Leadership + Most Popular + Spiritual
The other day, my mom shared a powerful and thought-provoking quote, that she had just read. It’s easier to be…
Digital India – its already here
July 01, 2015
Case study + Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Financial Services + Ideas + Payments + Product Management
Today’s the launch of the Digital India initiative and quite a coincidence that I had an experience which makes me…
Mood as the context for marketing
June 12, 2015
Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Ideas + Product Management
Something very interesting happened while I was using the Linkedin App on my mobile. I liked an article and pop…
Play to your strengths – Digital Banking Toolkit
May 14, 2015
Digital + Financial Services + Ideas + Leadership
Nadal is the king of clay. Given a choice of surface, I guess he would choose clay 9 out of…
Crowdsourcing from a captive audience – New approach to complimentary breakfasts
Crowdsourcing is all the rage. And restaurants seem to have caught the fancy. There is this guy who is spending…
School for future politicians
March 14, 2014
Ideas
I was super excited by the political experiments that were happening in the capital when Aam Aadmi Party was launched…
TripAdvisor feature – add professional profile and ratings
What makes TripAdvisor a preferred choice in the process of identifying a hotel to stay at is the rich guest-feedback…
Recommended feature for Google Maps Application
January 29, 2014
Case study + Digital + Ideas
Gratitude First – I am really thankful for Google for the traffic layer on its Maps application. Like most others…