My Rumblings on diverse observations and events.
Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth (2016) asks not what happened during the Industrial Revolution but why it happened in Europe and nowhere else. Here's the argument in 10 points: The core puzzle. Before roughly 1800, technological...
Everything you think is solid is actually on fire. Your language, your money, your cities, the numbers themselves — none of them were built and none of them can be...
Faizan Balluwala-Key Hardware Innovator , Holding Start Up of the Year award. India is not known for innovation. The Indian collective psyche still responds to the fear of poverty rather...
Since we had mastered the 9-axis hardware miniaturisation , I wanted to push the limits of our team to test their fit with a new product - Mouse 2 (...
The law of mental unity. When people gather into a psychological crowd, they form a kind of "collective mind" that makes them feel, think, and act quite differently than they would...
Pirate vs Navy I've sat in both kinds of rooms, and you can usually tell which one you're in within about four minutes. In one room, somebody says "let's just...
Everyone cheers for progress because progress is imagined, and imagination is free — it costs nothing to picture the after photo, so we fall in love with it. Change is...
The real big gaps — the ones even China's industrial speed can't touch — are in industrial components that are big, bulky, complex, and high-value. For everything else — the...
I ran a company of 50 people, and I made almost none of the decisions. That sounds like a failure of leadership. It was the opposite. Someone would come to...
From Academia to Business: What Changes About "New" I made that transition. It reverses the sign on the same word. Academia's unit of value is contribution — delta from prior art. Business's...
Hands-On Deliberation vs Governance through Org-Chart Manager mode is what most professional executives are trained to do — treat each branch of the org chart as a black box. Tell your...
3D printing is exceptionally good at one thing: letting you iterate on geometry fast. What it's not good at is telling you whether your product can be manufactured — which is a...
There is a peculiar modern habit of treating "knowledge" and "understanding" as synonyms, filing them both under the same bureaucratic heading: Information We Have Acquired The mistake organisations make is...
India’s AI Moment: From Early Adoption to Deep Transformation Consumer AI adoption: India vs ANZ Metric (2025)IndiaAustralia / ANZMetro adults using generative AI56% of metro adults use GenAI tools. Lower share;...
Inside Our Journey: Building MSP—How Listening Shaped Our Motion Sports Platform When we first started dreaming up MSP (Motion Sports Platform)—a sensor node platform for ultra-high-performance MEMS motion and pressure...
Khichdi is not just a classic Indian comfort food—it’s a masterclass in product management principles brought to the kitchen. Imagine a dish that began with the simplest possible ingredients, solved...
What Is Art? Expanding the Question Art resists neat definitions precisely because it inhabits the borderlands—between the seen and the unseen, the conscious and the unconscious, the transient and the...
Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts and coders! AI in coding isn't a magic wand that works for everyone, everywhere. Let's break down where AI shines and where it might actually...
A History of Us - A History of Consumers Consumer behavior has undergone a significant evolution over the last 600 years, transforming from a concept often linked to waste to...
The semiconductor industry presents a peculiar challenge: a high-stakes marathon where a single "bug" in a chip, a tiny misstep among millions of transistors, can lead to multi-million dollar prototypes...
OpenAI, now a leader in generative AI, began with a clear, strategic aim: to challenge established giants like Google. AI's trajectory is always a "product of human choices," making OpenAI's...
why pattern recognition is not considered true intelligence? True intelligence is defined by the ability to handle novelty – to deal with situations never encountered before and to spontaneously create new,...
What Large Language Models Seem to Do — and What They Truly Don’t We are living in a moment of extraordinary enchantment — not unlike that of the ancients who...
🕰️ 1. From Functional to Emotional Messaging Then (1940s–60s): Ads focused on rational benefits: “Whitens teeth”, “Cleans better”, “Freshens breath”. Brands sold features with direct language. Now: Emphasis on emotional resonance: love, pride, identity, inclusion....
It was late. Our team wrestled with a design challenge: we needed a vibration sensor, but every option meant extra cost, more I/O pins, and a PCB redesign. It felt like...
I started building my father's website , to set him up for a post-retirement engagement in his favourite subject - Astrology . He has been learning Astrology but he kept...
Back when I was building my startup, I met Kuldeep—a developer who loved tinkering with Unity. At the time, he was fascinated by game development, mostly because that’s what everyone around him...
When you're building deep tech products outside India’s metro innovation hubs, you're not just solving technical challenges—you're also navigating infrastructure gaps. One of the hardest things we did as a startup...
Gengis - How a Nomad Shaped a new world. Disclaimer: It is crucial to acknowledge the immense brutality and immense loss of life associated with Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire....
Siddhartha Lal’s leadership at Royal Enfield transformed the brand from a struggling relic into a global cult icon. By focusing on marketing strategy—brand positioning, targeting youth, building a passionate community,...
Stephanie Kelton's "The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy" offers a paradigm-shifting reinterpretation of government finance and economic policy. The book aims to debunk deeply...
By all accounts, we live in an age of infinite demand. People want more — more experiences, more income, more convenience, more justice, even more meaning. Yet if there’s a...
