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Monotale: What should you build?
Build something that 100 people love. Not something that a million people like. ~ Brian Chesky, AirBnb CEO
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Monotale: The lowPoly Problem
If you don’t have a low-poly vector of your face as a profile picture, are you even a content creator at Some Generic Digital Marketing Agency With Unpaid Interns Doing All The Work?
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Monotale: Regarding the aboutUs text on any website
Here is how I judge a B2B company – if they mention their vision, mission, and goals on their “about us” section – they basically don’t know shit.
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lovelyShit: Life Is Beautiful (1997)
There are good movies. There are great movies. Somewhere around a thousand points above them lies Life is Beautiful.
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Monotale: “Papa is my Eccentricity Capitalist”
The contemporary millennialist would have you believe that a perfect life is one with nothing but travelling and coffee – sharing memes like “Chai is life”, and “The Cure to Everything is Travelling” – while their parents work 12 hours a day and fund their whims.
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The Palihapitiya Ideals
While it is over 56 minutes and crosses the average attention-span – his insight is actually a really great life advice that I would suggest you to watch; maybe over 3 dinners instead of that one episode of The Good Place or The Shannara Chronicles, if that makes it more appealing. As a short note,…
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monoTale: The Infer Problem
If you have heard of Infer, you will know that one major advantage it has is its ability to do interprocedural/interfile analysis at scale. But there is an issue – extensibility. Adding a checker for a new type of bug into Infer was a complex task that required a lot of deep static analysis expertise…
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makesYouThink: What would make a truly AI Car?
A couple of years ago, I had this crazy thought – what really makes a car intelligent – its ability to predict and avoid accidents, or the decisions that it can make when an accident occurs? Whom would a truly AI car save – a pregnant mother of 2 children, or a drunk father of…
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Monotale: The NoSQL Naming Problem
If you were trying to hit on a pretty girl, and you tell her that she is “NoPretty”, would she think that you mean “Not only Pretty”? If not, why is NoSQL even a thing?
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lovelyShit: The curious case of Irani’s Tata Steel Downsizing
What would you do when faced with loss at your company? Downsize and get rid of employees that aren’t too useful? Well, Dr. J J Irani thought differently – and on a fine morning, his downsizing offer came about: Workers under age 40 would be guaranteed their full salary for the rest of their working…
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Monotale: Space
In life, you will not fit into a space that you are comfortable in, unless you build it yourself. – Random Internet Comment
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Monotale: The Wrong Friends
If your best friend is neither the most brilliant person you know, nor the dumbest person you have ever come across – then you are probably the dumbest person they have ever come across. Give a thought to it.
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Monotale: The Boring Heroes
While the whole world looks up towards Elon Musk’s imaginations – I find greater hope in the works of Ratan Tata. Maybe less disruptive. Maybe not at all imaginative. But that man does more for India than their whole government, sub government, semi government, and ridiculous-region-rulers-with-incredible-public-support-put-together.
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Monotale: Impracticality at 15
Let me assure you, at the age of 15, you wanted to be something that you believe is impractical today. I wanted to be a writer.
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Who are you?
The other day, I came across a thought provoking question. If you were asked to answer who you are – without mentioning your name or profession – what would you really answer? Would you identify yourself with the things you have done in life? Give it a little thought, and you will realize how thought…
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The End
If you have reached this – it means that I have no more thoughts to share with you. But I am always open to listening to yours, and you are welcome to contact me, anytime.