Pertinent Observations

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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
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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.
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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!
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AI and Conformity
Will AI lead to the (relative) success of conformists versus idiosyncratic people?
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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
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July 2025

God is Dead
On Iron Man and Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne
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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
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Peanut butter
Finally we have good homemade peanut butter! And I didn't make it.
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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
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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!
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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.
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June 2025

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