Fontainebleau and Downtown Calcutta You want me to take initiative. You want me to cooperate, voluntarily, with others around me. You want me to learn continuously and bring the benefits of that learning to my work, to my job, to the company, to its success. How do we get into those behaviors if around me it is the smell of the place you create? If you’d asked these questions to your...
Smell of the workplace
Breakthrough technologies 2017
MIT review’s yearly list is here. 2017 list includes – Facial recognition has existed for decades, but only now is it accurate enough to be used in secure financial transactions. The new versions use deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique that is especially effective for image recognition because it makes a computer zero in on the facial features that will most reliably...
Breakthrough technologies 2015
Augmented reality to growing brain cells to large scale desalination, some of these technologies are already here, some give a lot of hope and we need a few of them yesterday. Here is MIT’s list for 2015.
Magic LeapNano-ArchitectureCar-to-Car CommunicationProject LoonLiquid BiopsyMegascale DesalinationApple PayBrain OrganoidsSupercharged PhotosynthesisInternet of DNA
Top 10 from MIT review.
Oculus rift – inside story
“I think I’ve seen five or six computer demos in my life that made me think the world was about to change,” he says. “Apple II, Netscape, Google, iPhone … then Oculus. It was that kind of amazing.” By December, Oculus had closed Series B funding—with Andreessen Horowitz leading—for $75 million. Peter Rubin’s inside story on Oculus Rift and how virtual reality is coming of age...
Books – The inevitable – kevin kelly
Founder editor of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly in his book The Inevitable, talks about some of the technology trends that will shape society and consumption over the next few decades. He identifies 12 patterns – Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning , Beginning. Of these Flowing refers to the technology...
books – bob iger’s ride of a lifetime
The three pillars of his strategy for Disney are – great content, great technology (distribution) and global expansion. Not path breaking, it’s the time tested inventory, conversion and traffic playbook. But what is pathbreaking are the big swings he made to build lasting advantages for Disney in these areas.
Using AI to improve discovery and recommendations
Exploring ways to improve recommendations, discovery, and distribution using recent improvements in ai tools
Marketplaces in the Age of AI
Growth tactics
Tech stack – Netflix, circa 2023
Generative AI – 2023
Note – everything in this note is written by an AI. Jokes, if you find any, are mine The Tools List – Chat GPT Character.ai bard.ai Chat GPT – ChatGPT is a conversational agent based on the GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4) architecture, developed by OpenAI. It’s designed to generate human-like text based on the input it receives, and it’s trained on a...