PinnedWhat tech needs to understand to go direct-to-readerTech will have to deconstruct media in great depth to build its own media arm A spectre haunts the West, the spectre of civil war over who dominates Twitter hashtags. Coinbase is creating its own media arm. It came from the CEO’s social media handle. The move was billed as…Coinbase10 min read
May 15Adventures in product discovery land: part IIAs explained in part I of this series, I have been flailing and floundering in the choppy waters of product discovery the past two years. And just about making a land sighting. The example I am running with for the purpose of illustration is an electronic medical record (EMR) system…Product13 min read
May 14The Irish heart, the Yale heart(This post was originally written after season 1 of the Netflix series Alma Matters dropped in May of 2021. The author is an alum of the subject of the first three episodes — IIT Kharagpur) When I heard a Netflix show about my college was out, the first reaction was…Meritocracy6 min read
Apr 14Adventures in product discovery land: part II spent the last two years in product discovery land, looking to see if tiny strands of ideas, industry hearsay, and the sheer chutzpah of ambition might coalesce into something that could one day be an actual thing. These 24-months taught me more than the previous 16 years had. …Product Management7 min read
Aug 23, 2021The quarry and the opium den: the past and future of workThe workplace went from quarry to opium den rather quickly. My father worked shifts at an industrial gases plant. You punched in at 6 am, 2 pm, or 10 pm, and punched out at 2 pm, 10 pm, or 6 am. There was a security check for theft. The 2–10…Mwc Work13 min read
Aug 12, 2021Why LinkedIn is the way it is…https://www.flickr.com/photos/randysonofrobert/2134087952 If you wish to be LinkedIn famous, you have to learn to double space. Then, you have to be observant. On your morning walk, if a person with a three-year gap on the resume were to pass by, you have to grab them by the collar and give them…4 min read
May 17, 2021My take on the new Netflix series Alma Matters, season 1When news came that a Netflix show about the IITs was about to hit the stands, my reaction wasn’t the wide-eyed anticipation of someone about to see his life (I am an alum) represented on screen. Instead, I had the wariness of a New York gangster who had just been…3 min read
Jan 4, 2020A brief history of bodybuildingVanity, insecurity, and the masculine imperative of outdoing that pesky guy who is eyeing your girl must be as old as our species. Strong shoulders and latissimus dorsi to propel spears that could slay woolly mammoths in Siberia couldn’t have hurt either. Ergo, humans must have lifted weights, or whatever…Fitness10 min read
Published in Litmus7 Systems Consulting·Sep 9, 2019Online grocery — is there light at the end of the tunnel?It has been a quarter century since the dawn of ecommerce, and online grocery is still — to put it mildly — an unsolved problem. Estimates on penetration in the US vary between 3 and 5%. The number, even at the upper end of the range, is an order of…Startup6 min read
