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Somehow, our expectations from machines are very low. A few years ago, when the first generation of conversational AI’s started to pop up, we all got super excited by the concept of chatbots taking over the world and making support agents useless. It was followed by GPT-3’s ability to write given a prompt. Some said…

Over the last few years, I have been noticing that my counterparts in Europe are very willing to take up 7 AM meetings (schedules that they themselves suggest, not to avoid any clash). Something we in Bangladesh would find very strange (work here starts after 9, and usually gains pace after 10). Plus, I have…

The golden rule of software demo’s is that something will go wrong with your software the moment you are demoing it to a 100+ audience. It will perfectly fine the 12 times you did the internal demo or your QA – but one edge case will rise just at that perfect moment on your demo…

Last year, we randomly decided to visit Jessore. Interesting choice – because we don’t know anybody in the city and were just looking for a place to visit that’s away from the tourist crowd. Naturally, everybody continued to ask why we would go to Jessore – and what’s there to see. We didn’t have an…

Spent an unnecessarily long time of my life remembering how to read manual Vernier Calipers. Even though the digital ones cost like 2$ extra and don’t require any reading and multiplying. Why was I forced to do this? Spent a harrowing semester learning how to write MIPS code to draw a triangle and make it…

Over the past couple of years, one of the biggest changes in my thought process is that I no longer want others to subscribe or approve of my way of thinking. For example – maybe you look at an issue and find it alright, while I find it quite absurd. For example, the whole issue…

The local CCTV market has a huge gap where Cloud based solutions don’t play nicely with the old DVR/NAS Tech out of the box.While a form of IP Cameras exist, they offer onboard Micro SD Storage only and can’t be paired up with a NAS that can sync with an S3 Bucket. This means that…

The privatization of war has already started, and it has more impact than what we can imagine. Meta is downranking Russian Media Sounds good. But this will cause every large country to start slowly pushing out global tech products in favor of their own in the future. News is a big commodity – and dependency…

I regularly come across posts on Facebook where young founders ask for contacts regarding raising funds. A lot of the time, it seems that there is a significant lack of understanding regarding how funds should be raised – and there is a certain trend regarding this: You are asking random facebook strangers where you can…

Someone at Standard Chartered Bank decided that they don’t want me to download my last TAX Year’s statement from the web. The only way to get a copy is to pay them for it. And even then, it is manually done, and not immediate, and they can’t help whatsoever with my emergency unless I visit…

This layoff (and the previous one) isn’t the end of the world. In their journey of finding the right product market fit, Shohoz (and many others) will certainly go through more of this. But it makes it very difficult to hire/retain resources when you call your terminated employees “underperforming and temporary” in a national newspaper…

The craziest part about me joining Welcome was that I joined a completely new, 12-year-old company on its Day 1 of operation. On my joining day, HR took me aside and informed me that the company has just gone through a sales process, and we are selling off our (previous) main product (on that very…

Years ago – I had a drawer full of old things. Old and cheap USB Cables that cap out at 1 mbps, 3.5mm extension cables long enough to traverse the moon, Magsafe connectors old enough to lay eggs, and way too many power cords from the legacy of monitors I used to buy. The idea…