Humanity just outsourced imagination and creativity to AI.One of the hardest problems to solve in life is: creativity. Creativity, imagination, original thoughts. Those are pretty complex and intangible things to just develop out of thin air right? I mean from writing a story to crafting lyrics for a song, from illustrating a graphic to manifesting your ideas to a digital artwork, it all begins with creativity. How do you solve for creativity? You can’t. Its quite impossible. So what did Open...

Humanity just outsourced imagination and creativity to AI.One of the hardest problems to solve in life is: creativity. Creativity, imagination, original thoughts. Those are pretty complex and intangible things to just develop out of thin air right? I mean from writing a story to crafting lyrics for a song, from illustrating a graphic to manifesting your ideas to a digital artwork, it all begins with creativity. How do you solve for creativity? You can’t. Its quite impossible. So what did Open...

Building ecosystems need to be sustainable too.Some say governments are hard to work with. Some say corporates are harder to work with. I say anyone is hard to work with if you don’t have alignment and trust. Can governments and startups ever work together effectively? I did a panel session on Techstars Startup Day a while back. The subject was about “Working with Governments To Build Sustainable Ecosystems Together”. What should be the government role in a sustainable startup ecosystem?Nurtu...

Building ecosystems need to be sustainable too.Some say governments are hard to work with. Some say corporates are harder to work with. I say anyone is hard to work with if you don’t have alignment and trust. Can governments and startups ever work together effectively? I did a panel session on Techstars Startup Day a while back. The subject was about “Working with Governments To Build Sustainable Ecosystems Together”. What should be the government role in a sustainable startup ecosystem?Nurtu...

Web3 is getting really heated up these days.You know I love web3 and what is promises. Sure, it has its shortcomings, is full of scammers and grifters, but I am always hopeful that it will blossom and do good for the world in time to come. But really, for that to happen, some things have to change. Certain simple steps like switching networks, the whole seed phrase thingy and reading the wall of hieroglyphics before you make a transactions is just unnecessarily complicated for the common folk...

Web3 is getting really heated up these days.You know I love web3 and what is promises. Sure, it has its shortcomings, is full of scammers and grifters, but I am always hopeful that it will blossom and do good for the world in time to come. But really, for that to happen, some things have to change. Certain simple steps like switching networks, the whole seed phrase thingy and reading the wall of hieroglyphics before you make a transactions is just unnecessarily complicated for the common folk...

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest man in the world, has some amazing hiring stories.I read an article detailing how Jeff Bezos hired this lady after asking just 2 questions. I was enthralled. Not just at the fact that it was just 2 questions, but the thinking process and ideology behind it. “Bezos started the interview by promising that he was only going to ask two questions and that the first one would be a “fun” brainteaser. I took a deep breath as he stood up and uncapped a pen at the whitebo...

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest man in the world, has some amazing hiring stories.I read an article detailing how Jeff Bezos hired this lady after asking just 2 questions. I was enthralled. Not just at the fact that it was just 2 questions, but the thinking process and ideology behind it. “Bezos started the interview by promising that he was only going to ask two questions and that the first one would be a “fun” brainteaser. I took a deep breath as he stood up and uncapped a pen at the whitebo...

Federer will retire as one of the most talented, successful and accomplished player in Tennis history.Similar to how everyone has a favourite fast food (mine is In-and-Out), everyone have a sporting idol. For a long time, mine was Federer. Nadal came out of nowhere and stole the show for a bit. Nadal was unrelentingly, disturbingly dogged. He chased down every point and never gave up, no matter the circumstances. But it was always Federer in the end. With his fluid strokes, graceful demeanor ...

Federer will retire as one of the most talented, successful and accomplished player in Tennis history.Similar to how everyone has a favourite fast food (mine is In-and-Out), everyone have a sporting idol. For a long time, mine was Federer. Nadal came out of nowhere and stole the show for a bit. Nadal was unrelentingly, disturbingly dogged. He chased down every point and never gave up, no matter the circumstances. But it was always Federer in the end. With his fluid strokes, graceful demeanor ...

When AI writes your Linkedin post with sass, hilarity ensues.Saw the the Viral Post Generator meme floating around Linkedin lately? Here’s the amazing story behind it. It was started by Tom Orbach, who was a marketer and bored with work. He wanted to create cringeworthy posts that goes viral because it was funny and would get a lot of attention. He asks himself a lot of questions. Who wouldn’t like to go viral on social media? Can we design something scalable that helps others to go viral? So...

When AI writes your Linkedin post with sass, hilarity ensues.Saw the the Viral Post Generator meme floating around Linkedin lately? Here’s the amazing story behind it. It was started by Tom Orbach, who was a marketer and bored with work. He wanted to create cringeworthy posts that goes viral because it was funny and would get a lot of attention. He asks himself a lot of questions. Who wouldn’t like to go viral on social media? Can we design something scalable that helps others to go viral? So...

TikTok is one of the fastest growing app in recent history, and it now has a shop.TikTok has a shop now. And it might just blow up in 2023 (in a good way). It is a bold move into the e-commerce space. But for the social media behemoth, it is a very strategic and brilliant move. Why? Gen Z users are using TikTok as their default go-to search engine instead of Google. That also means more and more people are using TikTok for search and discovery. So after being entertained by a dancer moving to...

TikTok is one of the fastest growing app in recent history, and it now has a shop.TikTok has a shop now. And it might just blow up in 2023 (in a good way). It is a bold move into the e-commerce space. But for the social media behemoth, it is a very strategic and brilliant move. Why? Gen Z users are using TikTok as their default go-to search engine instead of Google. That also means more and more people are using TikTok for search and discovery. So after being entertained by a dancer moving to...

Ready Player One was a game-changer that showcased the future of metaversal gaming.I think that web3 gaming will be a larger multi-trillion dollar market than the metaverse. At least based on the current evidence. Collating some news in the web3 gaming:Creator of PubG announced a new blockchain-based game called Artemis that will have NFTs and a metaverse. (PubG has ~30m daily players).Creators from popular titles like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty launched a new web3 gaming studio, Rando...

Ready Player One was a game-changer that showcased the future of metaversal gaming.I think that web3 gaming will be a larger multi-trillion dollar market than the metaverse. At least based on the current evidence. Collating some news in the web3 gaming:Creator of PubG announced a new blockchain-based game called Artemis that will have NFTs and a metaverse. (PubG has ~30m daily players).Creators from popular titles like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty launched a new web3 gaming studio, Rando...

GoblinTown came near the end of the NFT craze and still managed to whip up a storm.Imagine this for a second. Crypto Winter blowing its cold, bitter and acidic winds at full might in May 2022. Everyone was either angry about the bear market tanking or given up entirely on the whole crypto thingamajig. Coin prices plummeted, crypto tourists exited swiftly, regulators started scrutinising, even top NFT projects like BAYC and CryptoPunks went down in floor prices. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Gobl...

GoblinTown came near the end of the NFT craze and still managed to whip up a storm.Imagine this for a second. Crypto Winter blowing its cold, bitter and acidic winds at full might in May 2022. Everyone was either angry about the bear market tanking or given up entirely on the whole crypto thingamajig. Coin prices plummeted, crypto tourists exited swiftly, regulators started scrutinising, even top NFT projects like BAYC and CryptoPunks went down in floor prices. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Gobl...

Apple, one of the largest and most powerful brand in the world, is making big moves towards sustainability and saving the planet.A day before the coveted Apple iPhone 14 Launch event, Brazil fined Apple $2.4M and banned iPhones from being sold in the country. Why? Because the Brazilian government felt Apple were discriminatory and not selling a complete product. Back in 2020 when Apple told the world that they will no longer be shipping iPhones with a charger or EarPods inside the box, I was ...

Apple, one of the largest and most powerful brand in the world, is making big moves towards sustainability and saving the planet.A day before the coveted Apple iPhone 14 Launch event, Brazil fined Apple $2.4M and banned iPhones from being sold in the country. Why? Because the Brazilian government felt Apple were discriminatory and not selling a complete product. Back in 2020 when Apple told the world that they will no longer be shipping iPhones with a charger or EarPods inside the box, I was ...

Binance is still the King of Exchanges, especially in terms of trading volume.More than $14 trillion of trading volume has occured on centralized crypto exchanges in 2021. The top 5 centralised exchanges (CEXs) traded $34.36B in 24h volume on 29th Sep 2022. That is just a day’s worth of trading volume. And Binance traded $18.84B, nearly half of it. Exchanges are powerful. Are they too powerful? Will they become too powerful for their own good and be bad for the greater good in the long run? L...

Binance is still the King of Exchanges, especially in terms of trading volume.More than $14 trillion of trading volume has occured on centralized crypto exchanges in 2021. The top 5 centralised exchanges (CEXs) traded $34.36B in 24h volume on 29th Sep 2022. That is just a day’s worth of trading volume. And Binance traded $18.84B, nearly half of it. Exchanges are powerful. Are they too powerful? Will they become too powerful for their own good and be bad for the greater good in the long run? L...

Between Nov. 8–9, Bankman-Fried’s net worth plummeted to from $15.2 billion to $991.5 million. That’s around a 94% drop.I wrote this article barely a month ago and look just how dated it had been! For some context, I noticed how everyone else in the crypto world was suffering from either the contagion caused by the Luna / Terra meltdown or the general bear market engulfing the system. Little did I know that disaster would strike FTX. and further decimate the markets. I will share my thoughts ...

Between Nov. 8–9, Bankman-Fried’s net worth plummeted to from $15.2 billion to $991.5 million. That’s around a 94% drop.I wrote this article barely a month ago and look just how dated it had been! For some context, I noticed how everyone else in the crypto world was suffering from either the contagion caused by the Luna / Terra meltdown or the general bear market engulfing the system. Little did I know that disaster would strike FTX. and further decimate the markets. I will share my thoughts ...