Outlines are an exercise in fractal thinking. Unlike every other era, ours is truly unique. Smart glasses with context. Doing for the self is better than doing for others. Life is non-Markovian. — Day 2 begins of my journey to chronicle whatever thoughts I can. Forcing myself to spend 10–15 minutes daily to write down 5 things is my way of committing to myself. Join me. Outlines are an exercise in fractal thinking

We, as a society, have become obsessed with our cameras and camera-phones. More pictures are taken with an iPhone than any other camera out there, which is a testament to the need / desire of people to take pictures everywhere they go. There are countless apps that focus solely taking…

Gratitude is overlooked. Staring at a thing robs it of its essence. Humans create nothing great the first time. Engagement is a prerequisite for attention. Disagreeing with your earlier self is growth. — I want to become a better writer, but seem to not want to commit to writing. Strange, right? James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, says that it’s not about the goal, but about the identify. Don’t try to win a marathon; instead, become a runner. …

Let me begin by being clear about what I mean by a “narrative” to dispel any confusion that might exist by the many definitions that exist. In my definition, a narrative is a story that connects events into a causal chain by attempting to fill in the missing links. “The…

Humans love stories. Whenever some event happens, we are driven to find a cause for it as if to dismiss the event as an obvious and inevitable effect. If the stock market crashes, thousands of pundits readily appear on TV to tell us why it did, where the economy is…

Why the future of publishing may be automated Content marketing matters Studies continue to show that content marketing yields the highest yield of marketing efforts and dollars. Studies say that 67% of customers say they decide to purchase a product or service after an emotional connection is made. But how do they make…

Over almost 2 decades, I’ve written code for at least a dozen companies. Some were my own endeavors. Some were for companies in the Fortune 100. But most were somewhere in between. In that time, I’ve worked on frontend, backend, Microservices, apps, databases and all of the little plumbing and…

It seems hard to spend more than 10 minutes on Twitter without seeing how some startup raised an obscene amount of money in a Series A, or even a seed round. While there are so many success stories out there, I thought it might be helpful to dig up some…

Recent advances in Deep Learning are only possible with the availability of large datasets — The recent proliferation of machine learning is due to a number of things. Algorithmic improvements? Definitely. Increased hardware capabilities? Without a doubt. But let’s not forget that the algorithms and hardware aren’t useful without data. We are now generating more data than ever before. We, as a society, are creating…