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What To Do When The Bugs In Your Product Are “Asymptomatic?”
At the 2018 Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, “somebody” stole the show and blew everyone’s minds. It was “Google Assistant” making a restaurant reservation. The task seemed simple enough—but not when you realise that it’s just lines of code talking to a real person. “Google Assistant” sounded so natural and, at times, even […]
How To Run The World… In Your Pajamas
When you dreamt up your business, you were probably thinking of yourself as the head of an enterprise, with an army of staff to help you change the world. But no—waking up at 4 AM, making your coffee, loading boxes into your car, while worrying about bills and invoices—is not your idea of “entrepreneurship.” You […]
This Person Could Sink or Save Your Start-Up
We live in a world where speed is everything. And I mean everything. In fact, how many sports can you think of where the slowest competitor is celebrated? Most sports are races, and whoever crosses the finish line first, wins. Many of the games we played as kids were races, and that’s why they were […]
The Most Important Job In A COVID-19 World
Gita Gopinath, the IMF’s chief economist, has called the past few months as the “Great Lockdown” of 2020. There’s the “Great Depression” (nope, this is not about that time your girlfriend broke up with you) and there’s the “Great Lockdown.” There’s nothing “great” about these things, really. It just means were stuck at home, wondering […]
What Do Network Engineers & “The Wizard Of Oz” Have In Common?
In 1939, the movie “The Wizard Of Oz” came out and introduced us to Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. Over 80 years after it featured on the big screen, the “The Wizard Of Oz” would go on to become the most-watched movie ever, according to the Library of Congress, […]