Guru’s Blogs
Why do Kindergartners consistently outperform CEOs, Lawyers, and MBAs in the famous design experiment? Does standardized education help or hurt? Will AI enhance or diminish creativity?
Teams of four have to build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and a marshmallow. The marshmallow has to be on top.
I am sharing 10 writing insights from the masters that have inspired me. I started writing recently, it is more of “notes to myself” on random topics.
I am an amateur blogger at best. I have a harsh critic at home, my teenage son tells me that I might struggle to pass 11+ creative writing exams for 10-year-olds in the UK.
It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. – Danish Proverb. How Google lost first mover advantage in AI race. What are the Lessons?
Sundar Pichai CEO of Google conceded this week that the popular interest in AI – triggered by global sensation caused by the 2022 launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT – had caught him by surprise.
What I learned about future innovation from a 3-year-old girl. The little one probably equated me to a two-legged human-like dinosaur.
The toddler was standing in front of the TV visibly annoyed. It took me a few moments to assess and understand the reason.
Exponential growth and decay are not intuitive, those who grasp the concept can spot opportunities and dangers ahead of time. An old Indian fable for today.
Once, there was a wise man who spotted a change in harvest and warned the king about the exponential decline in food production threatening his power and throne.
The story of Picasso and the napkin. Life Lessons from Picasso
Legend has it that Picasso was dining at a Paris when an admirer approached and asked if he could do a quick sketch on a paper napkin for her.
They say “Find your passion, make it your job and you will never work another day”, but it is not true. Life lessons from Ed Sheeran you don’t want to learn the hard way.
Ed Sheeran found his passion at the age of 11, he started writing songs, playing guitar, and performing at smaller venues.
Five simple laws about money. You don't want to learn the hard way.
It is as simple as that. If you buy things you don't need, you will soon sell things you need.
Spend on experience and stuff you genuinely enjoy, never spend to signal to society.
Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts. The role of True Vs. Truth and probabilities in the decision-making. You don’t want to learn the hard way.
The decision quality increases exponentially if everything that counts can be counted.
Five simple habits that are certain to produce outsized results in your life. Have you ever seen any other animal intentionally exercising for physical fitness or meditating for mental health?
Walking upright on two legs made us humans. Walking increased our brain size and made us more intelligent.
Leaders are paid to make difficult decisions, so why is decision-making so hard? "We're not thinking machines; rather, we're feeling machines that happen to think". Let’s explore.
Machines will make the same decision whether it is during peacetime or wartime. Machines do not have an emotional state, your car will not refuse to start on a Sunday morning because it's feeling weekend vibes.
Who are you? You are not what you do for a living. Who you are should determine what you do. But you are changing all the time so what should you do? The case for keeping your identity small.
A lion is born a lion, lives as a lion, and dies as a lion. Similarly, early humans were just another species, no different from the majestic lion that roamed the jungle.
'Every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it’ – GE’s Jeff Immelt. Why did he say that? What are the lessons?
“I gave him maybe the most important advice for incoming CEOs,” Mr Immelt said. “And that is: every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it.”
We are naturally predisposed to trust — it's in our genes, and it has helped humanity thrive.
Intelligence is public, out in the open. We have displayed our intelligence in text, audio, video, products, and services to the universe.
No one can predict how the world will use or value your products and services.
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachoswsky, and Curtis Priem cofounded Nvidia (“envy” in Latin) to build graphics microchips for video games in 1993. The total addressable market was $0 billion. PCs were rare, only nerds and teenagers played video games.
2023 predictions proved to be catastrophic for experts, what about 2024?
Top 10 trends that matter. "There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know" - J.K. Galbraith.
A million opportunities lie ahead of you in 2024. Are you ready?
Not surprisingly, the aimless wandering during the break helped me connect the dots and reset for 2024.
2023 has been a busy, eventful, and action-packed year. It is time to power down, reflect, and share holiday wit and wisdom.
Writing online and sharing my thoughts on random topics has proven to be an unexpectedly enjoyable experience. I never imagined it would be this much fun!
Comedy is the hardest job in the world, a long comedy career is a testament to intelligence, extreme customer focus, resilience, and durability. Lessons from Jerry Seinfeld.
Jerry is still drawing viewers and accolades, for his inventive online talk show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee—even as a new generation discovers Seinfeld on streaming video.
“I have nothing to add”. I was tempted to end the post with the quote and a photo. But Munger has inspired me and shaped my thinking over the years, I have something to add...
At 31 years old, Charlie Munger was divorced, broke, and burying his 9-year-old son, who had died from cancer. Munger would go into the hospital, hold his young son, and then walk the streets of Pasadena crying.