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Posted onFebruary 26, 2023March 2, 2023AI

Do Transformers Hallucinate of Softer Skin?

Cover image generated on Dall-E with the prompt: “A robot similar to Optimus Prime standing on a barren landscape looking at his human hand, cartoon…

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Posted onJanuary 24, 2023January 24, 2023Learning

Why Manage?

The single biggest mistake every first-time manager makes in tech companies (especially product, design and engg) is in believing that they no longer have to…

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Posted onJanuary 15, 2023January 15, 2023Frameworks

What Users Want

Kapi Pe Charcha #005 – Venture Highway “What do users care about? What do they need?” In our previous posts, we talked about speaking to…

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Posted onJanuary 15, 2023January 15, 2023Frameworks

Speaking to Customers

Kapi Pe Charcha #003 – Venture Highway “Would I need to speak to people/ users/ customers?” In our last two posts, we have discussed ways…

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Posted onNovember 23, 2022November 23, 2022Frameworks

Shortlisting Ideas

Kapi Pe Charcha #002 – Venture Highway “OK – so I have a set of ideas now. How do I check if they are any…

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Posted onNovember 16, 2022November 16, 2022Frameworks

Generating Ideas

Kapi Pe Charcha #001 – Venture Highway I am often asked: “How do I constantly come up with new ideas?”  While coming up with ideas,…

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Posted onJuly 27, 2021July 27, 2021Learning

Playbooks

A playbook has three attributes: (1) it gives you plays that can be reliably repeated, (2) these plays can be taught to others, and (3)…

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Posted onFebruary 9, 2021August 12, 2021Learning

Transitioning into Product Management

To say that I have followed an unconventional path to becoming a product manager is a little bit of an understatement.  Engineering → Writing →…

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Posted onJune 22, 2020June 22, 2020Learning

38 Lessons over 38 Years

No sudden wisdom has dawned on me. No life-altering epiphanies. Birthdays come and birthdays go. This will be just another day and the start of…

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Posted onJuly 12, 2015January 20, 2020Learning

Enlightened Self-Interest

One attribute of our education/ social system that has always bothered me is the unnecessary competition that schools and parents foster amongst the children. It…

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Posted onMarch 31, 2015January 20, 2020Learning

Why I Learn

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Attributed to Mark Twain (not verifiable) I grew up in a household with two…

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