We don’t just care about what a machine can say; we also care about what it can do.
~Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind
Elon Musk seemed pretty impressed with our prime minister, no mean feat to achieve.
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
~Coco Chanel
How Karma Works 🙏
You were passing by beautiful orchard filled with delicious mangoes.
Your eyes caught them.
Your feet couldn’t stop from going in that direction and your hands couldn’t resist plucking a few.
The tongue needed to taste them and then stomach becomes the inevitable beneficiary.
That’s when the owner of the orchard sees you and gives breaks your back with a nice beating.
The innocent back suffered for no fault of its and shed tears from the very eyes where it all began.
A question worth pondering 🤔
Nitin Kamath on bootstrapping a billion dollar company shares his own evolution and reflects on the nature of business.
Victor or Vaniquished?
While being stuck in traffic I saw a bunch of kids in a school playing by themselves.
One game in particular caught my attention. There was this one guy standing in the middle of the ground with his back bent. All the other boys would just run up to him, place their palms on his back and just jump over him.
He was happy and they were too.
It made me wonder what this would look like out there in the real world? Would one of them be the victor and the other the vanquished?
My spiritual master once told me. It’s not enough to just be good but you’ve to also be strong otherwise you will be exploited and get crushed.
After all there must be a reason why they say, the world is not a fair place.
Straight trees are cut first
~Chanakya
Perfection is the enemy of done!
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
~Mark Twain
A remarkably objective take on the impact of AI on jobs in particular and our lives as a whole.
Kailash is the CTO of Zerodha and has his PhD in another interesting AI domain of neurocomputation and computational linguistics.
Me: Do I know? Is it true?
Also me: No, I don’t know!
Trust is a super power!!! 🦸♂️
Its ironic how our education system is designed (from kindergarten through to PhD and beyond) to teach us more and more about less and less until we learn everything about nothing 😉
It is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning.
~Albert Camus
It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art 🎨 of listening 🎧
Is the art of living.
The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things if you look at it right.
~Richard Feynman explaining rubber bands(14 min 35 secs)