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Driving to / in Chennai
Based on my one data point from Saturday, henceforth I'm not tolerating any criticism of Bangalore traffic from people living in Chennai
Aug 30
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Nomenclature and legitimacy
When you give a name to some event or occurrence, you unwittingly lend legitimacy to the concept. Here is one data point about it.
Aug 27
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Speed Limits
IIT Madras campus now has a 20 kmph speed limit. Right in time for the first time ever when I went there by car!
Aug 24
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AI and Conformity
Will AI lead to the (relative) success of conformists versus idiosyncratic people?
Aug 20
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Vendors focussing on the wrong things
You hire someone to do one thing, and they spend all their time doing something else, and expect that it makes up for not doing the main thing properly
Aug 12
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God is Dead
On Iron Man and Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne
Jul 24
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Parenting and husbandry
when you end up being not a good parent, you end up not being a good spouse as well, and vice versa
Jul 21
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Peanut butter
Finally we have good homemade peanut butter! And I didn't make it.
Jul 10
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Conferences and networking events
A bunch of pertinent observations about conferences and networking events, in general, after attending one such event yesterday
Jul 6
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Managing broad people
I wrote 3/4th of this blogpost and then realised I'd written a version of this back in 2009!
Jul 4
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Hamsalekha on Artificial Intelligence
The Kannada music director makes some stellar points on the use of AI in creative pursuits, which has important lessons to business as well.
Jul 4
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Binary outcomes and anxiety
A lot of anxieties in life are to do with events which take a continuous "input" and result in a discrete output
Jun 28
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Demand and supply of advertising
LLMs might mean that the usage of Google goes down, but what does this mean to the advertising industry? Where will the "intent-based advertising" go?
Jun 23
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Veg substitutes for nonveg food
Vegetarian / vegan substitutes for meat / animal based food is based much more on texture / feels than nutrition, and that makes them a poor choice
Jun 18
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