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Continue reading →: Tactical vs Strategic : Playing the game at two levelsIn any game, some players push forward, and others hold the defense. They’re right there on the field, reading the situation and making tactical moves in real time. Somewhere off the field, the coach is looking at the bigger picture, thinking strategically, and planning for the rest of the game.…
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Continue reading →: Now I get how Doctors feelWith all these AI-based code generators floating around, I’ve started to feel a strange sense of sympathy for doctors. You know how patients walk in, quote some random article from Google, and then challenge the diagnosis? Yeah… that’s happening now – in tech. Lately, I’ve had Data Engineers come with…
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Continue reading →: Would you have joined anyway?In the early years of my career, the company I worked for in India introduced new changes to the company policy. It was a strategic move backed by many senior leaders, but not everyone saw it that way. I was one of those overenthusiastic junior employees who didn’t like the…
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Continue reading →: Is Getting Certified still worth It?This is one of the most common questions I get from students in my graduate class and I get it. Students are anxious to land on their first job and move forward. My answer? Yes and No. No — It Won’t Guarantee You a Job Recruiters receive thousands of resumes…
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Continue reading →: AI and the Human EdgeRecent years, this is the speech I give at the beginning of each semester. Don’t worry too much about AI taking over every job. We’re still in the early days. Many people, companies, even governments are trying to figure out what to do with it, how to use it, and…
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Continue reading →: TATA SuMoWhen diving into Leadership & Management, I came across a powerful story about Tata executive Sumant Moolgaokar, often called the “architect of Tata Motors.” Every day, while other leaders lunched in executive dining rooms, Moolgaokar would quietly slip away—only to be found at a roadside dhaba, sharing meals with truck…
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Continue reading →: Life alone is not a circle, Tech tooSometimes I feel like tech just goes in circles. Back in the 1970s and 80s, we had .dat files, COBOL scripts, and everything was file-based. If you wanted to “query” data, you wrote code. Then came the 90s — DBase III+, FoxPro, Clipper — we wrapped those files with something…
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Continue reading →: OTT Nextgen AI ModelsDear OTT Tech teams, Enough of building AI models to predict what to watch next. How about building a feature to help viewers watch smarter? Let users “auto-skip” parts they usually fast-forward – songs, action scenes, filler comedy, based on personal preferences or crowd-sourced patterns. – Analyze what segments get…

