Writing & Ideas

Thoughts on software, design, and building things.

The upstarts win again

De ja vu - the upstarts win again

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Education & Curiosity

The purpose of education is to learn

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Are you really sure ?

Are you unsure ? that's probably a good thing

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The Era of the Toolmaker

AI means There’s never been a better time to be a toolmaker

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The Art of Forecasting

Forecasting is hard

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Data Analytics - Tools of the trade

What are the tools you should learn to get started with data analytics

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The web started off as an adventure

Today opening a browser seems more of a chore.

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Pakistan Exports

Pakista Exports have been slow - but they've still trebled in 20 years

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CVM's 3Rs - Reach, Repeat, Relevance

How to think about 1-to-1 CVM campaigns

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Go big or go early

There are only two ways to make large money

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Investments should be win-win

No one does well until everyone does well

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Things said in meetings 🙃

Shall we take this offline .....

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There is no clould

There is no cloud

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The time v. compute trade-off

Either spend a lot of time evolvoing - or consume a lot of energy doing it quickly

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LLMs harness human knowledge

LLM models use training data produced by humans

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Drowning in reports ? Here's help

Some practical tips on how to set up a reporting system

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Hiring Heuristics

A few practical tips on hiring

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