George Soros, Nate Silver and Barack Obama: A Story of Reflexivity
There is one theory that billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros famously said helped him ‘make money and spend money’. It is called the theory of reflexivity, here in Soros’ own words: “I can...
View ArticleYou Will Never Know This, Maybe Even After You Die…
Here is an interesting 30 second thought exercise. Let us say you have this issue since you were born – the color RED appears to you as GREEN and vice-versa. So the first time when you went to school,...
View ArticleThe Best Product Does Not Always Win
We had suspected this all along – but like many things tech, it is not wisdom unless a VC states it. So here it is. If you thought that the best product always wins, you are probably wrong. According...
View ArticleA Tale Of Two Statisticians
First, from A Genetic Code For Genius?: “At a former paper-printing factory in Hong Kong, a 20-year-old wunderkind named Zhao Bowen has embarked on a challenging and potentially controversial quest:...
View ArticleConnect The Dots Looking Forward
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your...
View ArticleYou don’t want jacks-of-all-trades. You want experts.
(This post is a response to Bryan Goldberg’s article in PandoDaily) Bryan’s argument revolves around two points – quoting from the article, 1. “But I’ll wager that there aren’t many people on the...
View ArticleWhat The Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming
Math is silently taking over the world. You can’t see it, but it is happening. For a generation immersed in the next photo app success story this might be difficult to imagine – but we live in a world...
View ArticleThe ‘What Customers Need’ Fallacy
Here is a simple puzzle for you: If you start with ‘What customers need’ – you will only build incremental stuff, because what the customer needs is always based on what they have right now. To build...
View ArticleNo Problem Is Ever ‘Solved’
Most of us thought that the communication problem was ‘solved’ with EMail and Chat. Then came Facebook and Twitter. Many of us believed that Facebook and Twitter had solved the problem of...
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Firespotting Inspired Product Hunt?
We know it is absurd to claim such stuff – but we definitely had a spurt of joy when we spotted this today: Source (P.S.: That is Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt, before founding Product Hunt....
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