Joseph Jude

Get the boring things right, exciting things will fall in place, automatically. from:

Isn't there no stop to spam calls? I have a minor account with @AxisBank for my sons. Today I got a call from Axis, directed TO THEM (calling for their name) about investment. Is this what details provided to banks are used for now? @AxisBankSupport

If you don't read newspapers, you are uninformed. If you read them, you are misinformed. evidence 👇

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. —Pearl Bailey

Remember a joke by late MK: Hungry man enters hotel & orders all. Eats all roti. Still hungry Eats all rice. hungry Eats & eats. Still hungry Last server gets a vada. He eats & feels full Says will pay only for vada coz only it made me full Most claims are like that “only” 😜

Winners pay for many experiments - Jeff Bezos To boost your AI outcomes, it's time to ramp up your AI experiments. In my upcoming podcast we will discuss: - What experiments deserve funding? - How do you gauge success? - What's the right moment to pull the plug? Stay tuned

Got this email today. Should I apply to this hotel job in Canada?

I am restarting Gravitas WINS Podcast. Obviously GenAI will be a focus for a while. I'm coordinating with possible guests. If everything works out, here are the first four episodes that will come out. What do you think of the episodes?

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson I don't know about other countries, but I feel this way about Indian media (TV, newspapers ....)

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Samuel Johnson So true for GenAI generated articles.

You do to have to go to every party in town (Whether it is investment, fitness …there are always more options than we can handle. Pick and choose the party that fits you and enjoy)

You can’t scare someone who just wants to wake up every morning and do what they’re doing. About Taylor Swift from: Ability to be #antifragile

If ICICI doesn’t address this it will dent its reputation. @ICICIBank @ICICIBank_Care hiw are you addressing this?

Good way to start the day.

Is podcasting still a thing? Do you listen to podcast episodes? I thinking of restarting Gravitas WINS podcast. Wondering if it is worth doing it.

AI will fix everything, but first it has to ruin everything

What I have realized launching multiple "fun" projects: monetizing any project is a long work, not fun. Monetizing a project is: 20% fun, 80% hard, uncomfortable work. When we get to the 23%, there is something else "fun" waiting and I jump

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine

The cloud converted CAPEX to OPEX (of servers) What will GenAIs convert in terms of business model?

The internet decoupled the need for co-location of teams. What will GPTs decouple?

Important to understand correlation and causation Advertising in December increases toy sales. If ads increase sales why it doesn’t move sales in April? Maybe then it is Christmas season that increases toy sales. Ads just accelerates that. Not causing.

Where is Russia in the AI race? Russia used to compete with the US on space race. You don’t hear anything abt AI from Russia.

Meta CTO compares AI race to space race. Space race was between the US & Russia. AI race is between the US & China A young president set the vision for space race. Will the US miss this AI race because it elected an older president who has no clue abt AI?

Mary Maker is back with a trend report - this time on AI. I read through 340 pages to identify insights that are relevant to Indian IT services and their developers. 1/12

Been reading recently released Mary Maker’s AI report. Interesting insights. Will blog what I understand soon. Have you read it?

School education is state controlled echo

> How we’re progressing despite this deeply institutionalised corruption is nothing short of a miracle.

Will Kamal speak in parliament? "When did I tell there is no God. I am saying it will be better if God exists" When did I tell there is no democracy. I am saying it will be better if democracy exists. They would need translation.

My hero is me in 10 years - Matthew McConaughey Amazing Oscar speech :

What is going on here? If you ask is is 2025, Google AI assistant says, "No". It is not an isolated incident. I pity those who have to work with these LLMs.

What is going on here? And this is going to take away research jobs?

First imitate, then iterate, then innovate. What China did well. This is a playbook for everyone

Self-growth paradox: To master a skill, you must shut out the world. But if you shut out the world too long, you risk mastering something irrelevant. How do you balance deep focus with real-world relevance?

Anywhere Indians go, language issues follows

what is the sqlite of vector databases?

My boys have difficulty reading analog watches. They are so used to digital watches they ask why bother. It is not that they can’t decipher. Just they don’t see a point.

If you are mid-level employee, automation is coming for you. Automation (all kinds including AI) will demand high-skill employees (more experience # high skill). But it is going to eliminate mid-skill employees.

Automation increases need for employees, reduces need for managers.

Just migrated blog images from s3 to cloudflare r2 R2 is free. We are spoilt for choices.

Wonder how authors of earlier years were prolific. They read widely and wrote deeply. How did they find time for reading, thinking, synthesising, and writing? We have so much privileges now. Yet we are not able to do that.

Hledger Notes: Create and manage hledger entries directly in Obsidian Daily notes Interesting.

You're Chasing the Wrong Definition of Wealth

AI Can’t Even Fix a Simple Bug — But Sure, Let’s Fire Engineers I like the AI playbook for developers in this article. Go read it.

If AI agents are going to replace humans should they be taxed as humans?

AI can help you find Halicin (a new antibiotic) but will not help you find penicillin (very first antibiotic)

What kind of product innovations we see with AI? If 'A', 'B', 'C' exists, AI can create 'CAB'; but not 'D' that still requires human intelligence

We are finding new names for for our colleague, deePAK. Please suggest new names. Please be part of the circus.

🦔🦊 Are you a hedgehog or a fox? The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Use this metaphor to understand how you think, not what to think

Pocket was such an incredible service. Though I don't use it any more, there will be a void in this field: Pocket is saying goodbye:

Or as my son started saying: find what clicks and double click it