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A peek under the hood of innovation

Our memories will taint and shape every version of future we imagine. For example, it is impossible to imagine your ideal house without using the memory of aspects of homes or hotels you have gathered from memory. To innovate you… Continue Reading →

Extreme ownership

I started listening to this book while going out for my morning and evening jogs. It made me reflect that there are times when my lower brain kicks in and I get defensive once in a while. Of course, now… Continue Reading →

My thoughts on what twitter should do

Twitter’s announcement today echoes an article I wrote a few months ago. Achieving continuous product market fit requires letting go of the very thing that made us successful in the first place. Somehow it feels wrong, but that is the… Continue Reading →

Success : Part one – In search for significance

What does it take to be rich especially when you are born poor and have no close role models within your family of social circle for wild runaway success? Worst still, when you are an orphan like Larry Ellison, or… Continue Reading →

Attitude Determines Altitude

Start slow, never give up and keep going. This guy is going places with such great belief systems. A bad attitude is like a flat tire; it won’t get you anywhere unless you change it. A positive attitude is like… Continue Reading →

Design is the solution

A Product is something we build to achieve an outcome. But there is something bigger that can be done using a product – Alter human behaviors to make their own lives better. It can either start as an outcome you… Continue Reading →

Boundaries of the mind

I have a great liking for my friend and CTO of UPilot, Srikanth. We make sure we spend time meeting and talking every day. This is by design to ensure we stay aligned with the vision of the company. Too… Continue Reading →

How to build a GEM? Think EGM

To build a GEM – Implement it as EGM I will explain what I mean: When we look at products or companies or brands that break out and grows, three ingredients are common. Unprompted user engagement – User Growth and… Continue Reading →

Going home to Mauritius

I am the counting days remaining when I will take the plane and go to my 2nd home…18 more days to go! waking up to see beautiful mountains and beach from the bed, which I had been doing for last… Continue Reading →

Scale yourself first – or step aside

Everyone is in a hurry, hurry to make money, hurry to capture market share, hurry to see ROI. The consequences of scaling your company faster than scaling yourself is what we see when people like Parker, Travis, etc. are kicked… Continue Reading →

Where am I from? Where do I feel like I am from?

Bernadette Jiva invited me to join her slack group today. Something she promised she would do for pre-ordering her book Hunch. Once I Joined, I saw a lof of people introducing themselves starting with where they are from. Where do… Continue Reading →

Enjoying history

I love history, history of business, nations, people. These days I am reading the history of the men of mathematics, and it is very amusing to me when I string together time timelines of these people. One interesting part: A… Continue Reading →

Entrepreneur as an artist

Creativity is nothing but bringing new ideas together and taking the risk to bring those new ideas to the world. By this definition an entrepreneur who brings a new idea and makes it work is actually in a creative process,… Continue Reading →

A Different Reason Why Twitter Could Become a Digital Ghost Town

A recent article in the The New Yorker predicted the end of Twitter and said it was because the product is confusing and there is growing wave of harassment and abuse. Three incidents that happened recently gave me a realization… Continue Reading →

How to Predict the Impact of Automation in Your Sector

Our first impulse when we confront extreme technology is denial and sometimes to push back. Yet, we cannot stop artificial intelligence and robots from making the current jobs obsolete and creating new jobs. A clear understanding of what can be… Continue Reading →

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