Category: makesYouThink

The first fund I ever raised was sometimes around 2015 – for a dream I had around conversational AI taking MCQ exams and helping students prepare for public examinations. The whole project went bonkers right from the start. It was over-engineered, badly staffed, terribly managed, and had a CEO who had no idea how to…

Distribution is the key for almost all industries. You can make the perfect drink, but if it’s not available within a 2-minute distance from where people get thirsty – then there is a big chance that they will not come to you to buy your product. Similarly, there is no point in creating the world’s…

Was helping a friend out for integrating payment portals on a website.PayPal asked for basic details and was done in a day. Stripe asked for a few details and was done in two days. On the other hand, SSLCommerz has a list of like 20 documents, asked for a work order on paper, asked for…

আপনি কি শূন্য টাকা খরচ করে একটা প্রিন্টেড কাগজকে লক্ষ লক্ষ্য মানুষের কাছে কোটি কোটি টাকার বিনিময়ে বিক্রি করতে পারবেন? না পারলে জীবনের মূল্যবান সময় নষ্ট করে বাকিটা পড়েন: বাংলাদেশের মোট জনসংখ্যার ০.০১ পার্সেন্ট মানুষ রেজিস্টার্ড ট্যাক্স পেয়ার। এইটা যতটা না ইকোনোমিক কিংবা সামাজিক সমস্যা, তাঁর চাইতে বড় একটা মার্কেটিং ফেইলিউর। কিভাবে? বোঝাই। আপনি ঢাকার…

A couple of days ago, it transpired that Pathao had been uploading all SMS/Texts from User’s phones to their server – un-encrypted and open to MIM attacks – which can typically be considered as a terrible way to harvest private data. Their response to the public outcry?  পাঠাওয়ের কাছে এসব তথ্য সম্পূর্ণ নিরাপদ ও সুরক্ষিত…

Bangladesh is probably the only country where, at a time of grave national crisis – the biggest news that reporters can come up with is that Piyaru Baburchi made Chicken Biriyani, Cheesecake was on the menu, and Porjoton Corporation supplied waiters.

The answer lies in the word “opposable thumbs”.

Simple answer: Donna Strickland’s Nobel winning paper (2018) was not published in Science or Nature, but in “Optics Communications” – A very confined disciplinary journal with an impact factor of 1.887

Sometimes, have you ever thought of what would be collectively good for the world? In a crazy world where you have to choose between Thanos against China’s one-child policy, which one would you choose?

Backdrop: This piece is based on a certain incident when a Bangladeshi Lawmaker laughed on national television at the death of 3 children in a road accident, saying that India’s death rate per hour is 16 – and that this is not an issue for us to fuss about. – Throwing around controversial statistics like…

Here is something I have been thinking for a while – whatever your religion may be, it acts as a code for your standards and opinions. You do things that your religion asks you to do, and avoid the ones that it asks you to avoid. Even including the time when you believe that religion…

The famous physicist Richard Feynman once said: “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight … I saw a car with the license plate ARW357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”

Oren Harari once said, “The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles”. Now, candles are great – romantic and whatnot. But do you sometimes see a relationship between candles and books?

The most expensive University in the country – plain up decided that they will drop every students’ semester if they fail to pay the fees within this week, barely three weeks into the semester. This is crazy for a multitude of reasons. For instance, I know a lot of friends who pay for University out…

One of the craziest things about working at GradConnect is that we don’t have a single pissed off client. Sure, we haven’t grown to be a mammoth game-changer, and neither have we successfully helped every single person that came across since 2013. Bad things happened, and great things happened too. The team broke down at…

A year ago, there was a gentleman in Chittagong who had contracted a mutated bacteria that was resistant to all but one drug available locally. By then, the dominoes had started falling. Today, that long line of R is basically a death sentence to the patient, and to all of us who might contract this…

The lack of standardization in the medical industry in Bangladesh is scary af. And it isn’t only just when you are doing a bypass surgery. My mom goes to Apollo fairly regularly for checkups – but the real problem though, is their interpretation of things after these results come out. My mom has been having…