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Showing posts with label 2024 Perspectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024 Perspectives. Show all posts

December 27, 2024

Leader in Today's Generation

  • Someone who can learn faster than the rest of the team.
  • Someone who can bring their experience and perspective to find solutions when trade-offs are needed.
  • Someone who balances skills, team talent, and deadlines effectively.
  • Someone who learns on behalf of the team, anticipating questions before they arise.
  • Someone who takes responsibility for failures.
  • Someone who brings experts to the table when external perspectives are needed.
  • GenAI is like having interns for CEOs. Now, all we need is focus, time, and the willingness to learn.

A true leader of today's generation learns faster than the rest, balances talent and deadlines with precision, takes responsibility for failures, and brings in the right expertise when needed. They anticipate challenges, solve problems with perspective, and embrace AI as a catalyst for growth—fueled by focus, time, and a willingness to learn

Keep Going!!!

May 09, 2024

Embracing Lifelong Learning: A Call to Rethink Skills, Failure, and Progress

In an era where innovation propels us forward, the history of automobiles and airplanes serves as a powerful reminder of human ingenuity and resilience. These inventions, perfected over decades, symbolize our capacity to adapt and trust in both progress and the individuals behind it. Just as we have placed our trust in these revolutionary technologies, it is imperative that we apply the same open-mindedness and commitment to the world of personal and professional development—especially in emerging fields like AI.

Learning as a Natural Process

Learning, particularly in artificial intelligence, should not be treated as an imposition but rather as a natural extension of our innate curiosity and growth. Constraining this process to fixed timelines or comparisons only hampers the genuine learning experience. Instead, the focus should be on addressing challenges that resonate personally, which ensures a more authentic and impactful engagement with the subject matter.

The Power of Continuous Improvement

One of the most empowering aspects of learning is that it does not require formal recognition or titles. True learning comes from a steadfast commitment to experiment, fail, collaborate, and relearn. By prioritizing personal skills and interests, each individual paves their own unique path towards their goals. This journey enriches not only the learner but also those around them, transforming interactions and leading to mutual progress.

Failure is Okay, Experience and Journey matters

Moreover, undergoing failures—be they in products or personal lessons—are crucial in shaping a more empathetic and knowledgeable individual. These experiences teach resilience and provide unique insights that can be shared with others. In doing so, a learner evolves from a mere participant in their field to a mentor and leader who uplifts and educates, rather than exploiting the potential of others.

Keep Learning

Embrace the process of learning as you would trust the safety of a car or a plane. Dive deep into your passions, allow yourself the freedom to fail, and rise with a richer understanding and capability to contribute positively.

Remember: the journey of learning should be liberating, not limiting. Let's commit to making learning a part of our lifestyle—to continuously develop skills that drive us towards our ultimate destinations.

Keep learning, growing, and influencing. The road ahead is as exciting as you choose to make it.!!!

March 22, 2024

Failures in AI/ML/GenAI Adoption

Success in #AI/ML/GenAI projects has a lot of challenges. Some projects' data availability / some projects handling bias / Some projects balance features vs bugs / Knowing 80% features vs 20% future releases. This needs a lot of iteration and team mix to make it work. Success goes in LinkedIn posts. Failures end up haunting us searching for the next success.

Keep Exploring!!!

February 01, 2024

My Consulting + Product Journey

  • AI Roadmap - Data Analysis, Availability, Staged use case Adoption, Roadmap for 3PL, Beauty, Fashion, Retail, Media
  • Products - Conceptualized, Solution Development, Implementation of Vision-based products in Agriculture, Fashion, FMCG
  • Training - SME for AI / ML Training for product managers. Completed 4 batches covering use cases in Retail, Fashion, FinTech, Energy
  • Domains - 3PL, Reverse Logistics, Retail - Planogram, Inventory Management, Loss Prevention, E-commerce
  • Production Implementation - Recommendations, Vision Solutions, Forecasting, GenAI Adoption

Will share a few more specific examples coming weeks :)


Keep Exploring!!!

January 11, 2024

AI threats, freelancing, making millions & building businesses

AI threats, freelancing, making millions & building businesses

Good talk and lot of key pointers. Execution matters + creative ideas.

Key Ideas to Align

  • Time to execution is low
  • Top creators can do more work 
  • Things can be done in parallel
  • Weight of brand carries message (AI or AI-generated)
  • Increasing opportunities for a few
  • Embrace AI for better execution
  • Pulling tools together makes you more competitive
  • Ideas are connecting the dots

AI will take over

  • Content writing
  • The cost will come down to building software
  • You can better learn task / prompts with chatgpt
  • Better Experience = Better Prompt
  • Good prompt based on past experience
  • Drag and Drop pics train vision model

Tips

  • Get more Inspirations
  • Add more ideas
  • Synthesize tools (Good/bad output)

AI Risks

  • Not works on consumer side
  • Don't do things already mainstream

Path to Progress

  • Freelancer -> Agency -> SaaS Platform
  • Posters for Real estate
  • Posters for Mfg Companies
  • Niche Photography
  • Upskill before it becomes popular
  • Storytelling, Personalization

Future

  • Multimodals
  • AI + Image + Vision
  • Super Apps
  • AR, VR
  • Keep good at some skills
  • Skills + Network + Opportunities
  • Identify gap in market to graph your career :)


Keep Exploring!!!