My Appearance on DisrupTV Episode 100
Last week I sat down with interviewers Doug Henschen, Vala Afshar, and a bit of Ray Wang (live from a 777 taxiing en route to Tokyo) to participate in Episode 100 of DisrupTV along with fellow guests DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth and big data / science recruiter Virginia Backaitis. We covered a full gamut of topics, […]
The Question that CEOs Too Often Don’t Discuss with the Board
Startup boards are complex. While all board members own stock in the company their interests are not necessarily aligned. Founders may be motivated by a vision to change the world, to hit a certain net worth target, to see their name in an S-1, to make the Forbes 500, or — and I’ve seen crazier […]
Math and Science in daily life – Part 2
Last time, we discussed how Pythagorean theorem helps us in every day life. Today, I would like to invite your attention to Pi , a beautiful constant (yet one we cannot fully measure) that is in practically everything we see and use. So, what is Pi ? The common definition is that it is […]
Math and Science in daily life – Part 1
In my job, I spend a lot of time explaining technology topics to my clients in simple english. Off late, a lot of such conversations are about AI, Data science, Quantum Computing etc . Those topics are rooted in maths and physics (amongst other things), and I often find there is some fear about math […]
Looking ahead – what jobs will technology take away ?
As with a lot of things like politics, religion and so on – the world is sharply divided between people who believe AI and Robots (or automation in general) will take more jobs away than it creates. I was drawn into this debate yet again by a few friends couple of weeks ago – so […]
I Spent 29 Years Adopting Channels for Customer Service – Here is What I Learned
I figured I’d try a little bit of click-baiting, see how it works… Beyond the lame title, this is a good post. Another one in the “I did an amazing webinar, and these are the questions I did not get to” series. Number two, and am doing another one today, so will have more questions […]
The Single Biggest Myth about MBOs and OKRs
I’m a big believer in written quarterly goals. The old way to do this was to adopt “management by objective” (MBO) and to write down a set of MBOs for each quarter for each team member. Most folks would do this either in Word, or if they liked weightings and scores as part of calculating an […]
Four Questions You Have About Customer Experience (and answers)
On January 18th I participated with Matt Kresch (Microsoft) in the first of three video webinars (vidnars? webdeos?) that we are presenting on Customer Experience. It was fantastic, seriously – here’s the link if you want to check it out (registration required), and we had a very engaging (that’s what the comments said) conversation about why […]
Sustaining Craft – quick roundup on Apache, BTC, Pineapple, IBM mainframes and FutureGov
When you’re curating a conference you tend to see everything through the lens of that event. At the moment I am in full Monki Gras mode. The conference is on the 1st and 2nd of February 2018 in Shoreditch, London. The theme is Sustaining Craft. Where last year we examined packaging, convenience and disposability, this […]
Edge Computing: Interesting Video, Even If Flawed
I came across this “short” (25 minutes or so) video by Andreessen Horowitz partner Peter Levine. I don’t like people that announce “death of” or “end of” or similar (see Mainframes, COBOL, even tape for a simple explanation why). However flawed the thinking, there are some very good points he is making (and a very […]
