Category: Essays
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How can PMs navigate the AI conundrum?
AI – confusions galore AI AI every where, And all the teams did shrink; AI AI every where But not a single KR moved In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he writes the story of a voyager who found himself drifting south because of a storm, reaching the Antarctic. I first read…
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About this year’s Monza GP
This race was such an emotional journey. For the last 14 laps, I didn’t move an inch – stuck not on the cars or the track, but on the timer. The gap between Piastri and Leclerc decreased bit by bit. All kinds of calculations went through – “he needs to cover up more than a…
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The tech innovation in Formula One
Formula One is one of my favourite sports. Things could turn one way or the other in hundredths of a second. For example, in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2021, the race leader, Max Verstappen, had a crash 3 laps before the race was about to end. Within a split second, he went from position…
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The need to show your work
I recently had a chance to read the book – Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon. To say that the book has been an eye-opener will be an understatement. Barely a hundred pages long, this was the book I needed at this time. I have been thinking about what to write consistently, now that I’ve finished the Level Up series. This…
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WeWork and Theranos – what do we learn?
What happened at WeWork and Theranos is a lesson for all of us.
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A brief history of sugar
Today, sugar is a ubiquitous substance. The entire world craves for it. But this was not always the case. The spread of sugar is a fascinating study for how products that were once not even necessary have become indispensable today. Here’s a brief history of how it happened – Some sources suggest cane sugar originated…
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History of samosa in 2 minutes
My fascination with Samosas had me go down the rabbit hole of finding their origin story and write a Twitter thread about it. Here’s a brief history of samosa – the snack I crave for every so often! Samosas originated in the middle east. Persian literature from the 10th century has a lot of mentions…
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Are increasing life spans a good thing?
Last year, I read a book called Factfulness by Hans Rosling. This book has, to an extent, changed my perspective on human evolution. It has provoked thoughts in me, led me to read up more on where we as the human race are heading, and given me a number that I’m fixated on — The…
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Too many “platforms”
About a month ago, I was in the middle of my annual website upgrade. I’ve been running this website on wordpress.com and I wanted to look for more flexible platforms. Specifically, I was looking for a place where I could also embed a newsletter sign-up form for easybuthard.substack.com The obvious choice was a self-hosted wordpress…