The future is not binary, its colorful and beautiful. Early morning standing under the shower I had a thought, as usual most of my good stuff happens under the shower. I thought about the way, as humans, we are headed into the artificial age and how it is so important for everyone to focus on learning about and leveraging AI, machine learning, analytics and automation. I was thinking of all the ways AI will change the way the world works when a small voice inside my head squeaked “that’s just stupid dude, you’re stupid, you’re stupid and don’t forget you’re […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Ten days back we went to the place which in our small nuclear family we consider our pilgrimage, Hiranandani Gardens Powai. This place is where a lot of things started for us. This was where we found our first jobs after completing our MCA. This is where one evening while reflecting on the colors of sunset sitting in the open enjoying a coffee we decided “chal let’s get married” (after around 9 years of “going around”). Four years later we then came back to Dr. L. H. Hiranandani Hospital Powai for the delivery of the first child and subsequently another […]
(The seed of this story came from Ira. She wanted me to write a story about a very very very very big mango tree)…. Rashid woke up before the cockerel again today, quickly brushed his teeth, washed his face and ran out into the courtyard. The cockerel was startled and so were the two male goats in their enclosure. He went straight to the large mango tree standing stout at the very corner of the courtyard. This year was looking exceptionally good. The tree was laden heavily with large bunches of juicy looking mangoes. Pity he wasn’t allowed to […]
No one knows why the pyramids were really built…. well ok some people will tell you they built the pyramids to protect the pharaohs in the after life…. scratch the surface and that argument will fall off…. Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica fallout is a classic case of why one shouldn’t build it just because it can be built. I have always maintained that technology and advancements in computing are running away while real life at best is left gasping and panting running after new advances trying to play catch up. People clamor for the latest and greatest without […]
There once lived a pack of wolves in the jungle. They were led by a ferocious leader who was as wise as he was strong. He led the pack on numerous difficult hunting expeditions on a daily basis and pulled off feats that were considered impossible. Rounding up deers and buffaloes and goats and sheep and all sorts of game animals that the pack devoured hungrily because hunting with the pack leader was no walk in the park. Slowly as time went by the pack grew in size as every wolf in the jungle wanted to be a part of […]
1…. An eye for an eye and the whole world would be blind… the need of the hour is to shun our differences and come together. Black and White is all good but go beyond the feral instinct and recognize that every right and every wrong is not in isolation. Respect the grays, read between the lines, understand your customer, build products that evolve with feedback… don’t just shove what we are selling down the customers throat….. for after all a Zebra also believes in adapting to change and end of the day survival is about embracing the gradients between […]
ever notice how when you’re going up in an elevator to some higher floor, it stops somewhere in between and four bumpkins tumble in scratching their oily hair and busily hitting the like buttons on FB running on their phones like their lives depended upon it…. then the doors close and the lift starts moving up to the 20th floor from the 4th floor…. and then they let out a collective groan and simultaneously look up at you as if you are the problem…. then one of them manages to say “oh fuck this is going up”…. All this while […]
He had always been a rebel. And today he was off on his journey. The whole family had turned up to see him go, to wish him well. The young duck, Jammy, had decided to shift to the other side of the marsh to be able to build a better life, he did not believe in tradition where all ducks stayed together in a flock.He wanted to break out, disrupt and discover new meaning. Mama duck had packed him a bag full of goodies and had been crying non stop past two days. Papa duck was proud. He had been […]