Let’s start with the low hanging fruit before I get into the domain of business. Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) became absolutely necessary because of big data. If it were not for ML and AI, most of the social media platforms would have been rendered useless from the get-go. Consider a sample of…
Somewhere between November 1994 and January 1995, I got my hands on the Netscape browser. With every click on the hyperlink of static webpages my excitement and visions of the possibilities and the future exploded. During the course of my career, I have never bothered my family with the technical details of my job; but…
Smugly, the rock said, “Look at me. I can bend the river around me”. The twig, resting in the embrace of blades of grass, responded, “I think you resist the flow”. “The flow is dangerous! It poses risks…”, after a moment of pause the rock said, “… sometimes fatal”. The twig thought for a moment,…
In one of my earlier posts, Yearning, I mentioned that sometimes it’s not the words that claw at your heart but a picture that seizes your gaze. It then sprouts words that come together to form a prose or a poem. When my nephew, Siddharth, posted this picture on Facebook I felt this compulsion to…
During my recent cleaning of the bookshelf, Dr. Viktor Frankl’s classic book Man’s search for meaning fell off the shelf as if to grab my attention. I thumbed through it in a hurry to get back to the task but the following lines would not let me look away till I sat down and thought…
More than the letter mentioned in the FB post, I found this picture (credit: unknown) very captivating. Sometimes it’s not the words that claw at your heart but a picture that seizes your gaze. It then sprouts words that come together to form a prose or a poem. Then, there are times when a picture…
As the green thumb in our house will tell you that my knowledge of flower and fauna is limited to the question – does it need water? – I was surprised at myself when I got intrigued by Bonsai. This is a Japanese art form and tradition that goes back more than a thousand…
Watched the movie ‘Pink’. Risking the wrath of armchair activists at home, I dare say that the movie was below average, but it did make me think. The social norms, prejudices, perceptions and character judgments shaped by media and society, influence each of us on a daily basis. It is said that a lie repeated…
It’s only when there’s some disruption to one’s life that it hits you how much we live in presumption of continuity. Be it loss of job, a loved one, a friend, relationship or even something very small that you held dear, like an emotional anchor, that you are confronted with reality of change and discontinuity….
Words – they tear you apart, cajole you, excite you, motivate you, make you cry or make you laugh and experience a range of emotions. Sometimes… just sometimes, you hear or read something and then those words clamp up your heart, nibble at your soul and drop themselves in your psyche like a boat anchor;…