Last year, I published a note on Mistakes I made as First Time Manager on the internal portal of Meta (and eventually on my personal blog). That note received traction beyond my imagination. Inspired by that, I thought I should share mistakes I made or observed others make as Manager of Managers with the hope…
Lessons from Uncertain Times – What I Learnt from Dealing with the Last Two Recessions
We have heard a lot of macroeconomic doom and gloom news of late. This invariably comes up every now and then in cafeteria chats and 1:1 conversations. In those chats, I had a realization that a fair lot of people who are today in work force, have never seen a recession. Given that last recession…
Mistakes I Made as a First Time Manager
I recently had a 1:1 with one of the new managers in my team and we were exchanging notes on his experience vs my own experience when I myself was the new manager. I shared quite a few mistakes I thought I made then (at least the ones I was aware of – because I…
My Interview with Institute of Product Leadership’s Ask Me Anything (AMA) Series
The original post can be found here. AMA Interview with Prasad Bhandarkar, Head of Search & Profile Data Engineering, Facebook AMA Interview with Prasad Bhandarkar, Head of Search & Profile Data Engineering, Facebook As part of the Institute of Product Leadership’s continuous effort to engage senior executives in the industry to share their knowledge…
My Musical Experiments with Artificial Intelligence – Part 1
This is going to be a unique post as I get to post it on both my professional and musical blog. This summer I decided to experiment with Artificial Intelligence and apply it to musical improvisation. Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword everyone seems to use these days – some with awe, some with curiosity, some…
My Musical Experiments with Artificial Intelligence – Part 2
Published Material on AI and Neural Networks Theoretical foundation of Artificial Neural Networks is nothing new. As a discipline, theoretical framework of AI has been existence in Computer Science since 1960s. However, recent scaling in compute power enables these frameworks to be put in practice to produce something meaningful. cars.mit.edu Anyone who wants to learn…
My Musical Experiments with Artificial Intelligence – Part 3
Tabla Basics Tabla is a north Indian percussion instrument. It comprises of two drums played together. The smaller drum produces various main sounds while the bigger drum produces accents and modulations. Tabla is a unique percussion instrument and can produce extremely rich and advanced percussion improvisations. This is so because like human languages, Tabla has…
My Musical Experiments with Artificial Intelligence – Part 4
Improvisation on tabla strikes a delicate balance between the two things – Artistic improvisation within a rhythmic cycle itself. For example, within Teentaal, the tabla player is free to play variations as they sound aesthetically pleasing Taking influences – mostly rhythmic – from the lead musician and producing them on the tabla A good tabla…
Social Influence Marketing – Building Blocks
Famous marketing guru Peter Drucker once said – “Businesses Exist to Create Customers.” While that paradigm has been true for generations, today even he may agree if we say – “Businesses Exist to Create Customers… Who Create Customers”. In his book – Social Physics, How Good Idea Spread – Lessons from A New Science –…
A Case for Long Overdue “ERP for Customer Analytics”
Building customer analytics capability for organizations is a scary proposition these days. What your organization likely craves for is something like this – insights about customers that one has not even thought of analyzing, let alone do something about it. Unfortunately, you start with a combination of massive legacy data mess and a huge mumbo…